Homeowners Complete Outdoor Building Book

Terrific, thick and thorough building guide with plans, details and instructions for a full range of outdoor projects. The author seems to poo poo modern architecture for its severity, yet the design projects are simple with a mostly Modernist sensibility. There is also a nice section on use of masonry block. Complete how-to instructions and plans for: shelters, fences, gates, trellises, walls, furniture, planters, pools, terraces, tool storage, driveways, birdhouses, outdoor storage, cold frames, bird feeders.

Overall clean and tight with a few bent down page edges. Dust jacket is in rough condition or non-existent.

pub date: 1971 publisher: Popular science. pages: 470 format: Hardcover sku: 413132 $64.25