Home Care

Dozens of ideas for creating, designing and furnishing relaxing living areas outdoors. Tips for using indoor design elements outdoorsaincluding rich fabric mixes, complex color palettes, and lighting, art and architectural details.Inspiring photos accompany instructive text to empower many to create and decorate their own outdoor living niches.Chapters discuss living and dining areas, kitchens and baths, sleep, work and play areas, architectural elements, and decorative features.Advice for buying products and technologyagrills, lighting, fire pits, and fireplaces, to flooring materials, fabrics, furniture, and more.

A guide to window treatments, with six chapters, a glossary and a how-to chapter for extra help. The text features: budget-stretching tips on fabrics and linings; hints on dressing ready-made treatments for the designer-look at a budget price; plus measuring and calculating materials required.

Complete step-by-step instructions help you achieve a sustainable, efficient, and attractive yard.

The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Landscape Projects is a hardworking, comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and "greening up" your landscape. Inside, you'll find complete directions for time-tested landscape building projects as well as new environmentally sustainable projects. From designing your landscape to putting the finishing touches on an arbor or custom gate, everything you need for landscaping success is right here.

Learn how to make and install: compost bins, garden walls, dry beds, rain gardens, water features and irrigation, patios and walkways, all the most popular styles of fencing, and more. You can build a sustainable, low-cost yard with the most efficient, cost-effective methods and products with the help of this book. Just because you live in the city and don't own a half-acre plot doesn't mean you can't have a spectacular landscape. In this updated, new edition you will find a special section just for small yards and urban settings. Jump right in and build the landscape of your dreams!