Patios and Walkways features easy and stylish projects that extend your homes living space into the outdoors and significantly increase its curb appeal. More than 300 step-by-step photos show you how to enhance your homes livability, style, and value.

The projects include:

• Patios
• Walkways
• Garden path
• Low-voltage lights
• Raised bed
• Concrete steps
• Entryways

How to Use This Book

Get Set

Prep Projects

Main Entry Makeover

Step Upgrade

Stacked Block Raised Bed

BBQ Headquarters

Streetwise Entry Walk

Precast-Paver Path

Casual Courtyard

Stepping-Stones

Lighting the Way

Resources

Customer Reviews from Amazon

This a great guide to getting everything you need to do a job. The photos are great for ideas, but there is little more than that. The book seems too short to accomplish the task at hand. I'll have to get an additional book.

Step by step pictures are easy to follow and informative. This book is set out in a user friendly manner and one of the best of it's type I have read.

The organization is excellent; the presentation of a series of sample projects makes the information very accessible to the novice, while providing some flexibility in how you can use the book. If one of the projects is exactly what you want to do, just read that section and plunge right in. If you don't know what you want to do, or want to do something a little different from what is described, read the entire book and get a good understanding of both basic principles and the variations that are possible. I had nothing bad to say about this book immediately after reading it (several times), but imagine my surprise when, while researching concrete pavers online, I ran across a familiar photograph - from this book - at a paver manufacturer's website. Reading the acknowledgements and copyright info for the book confirmed it - a number of the supplemental photographs are marketing materials provided by manufacturers. No wonder that this book seems to imply that pre-cast concrete pavers are the greatest thing since sliced bread! It seems obvious in retrospect that the book is biased by this manufacturer input. For this reason, if you are hoping to save a lot of money with DIY, this may not be the book for you. It doesn't cover the cheapest patio/walkway options (gravel and concrete), and the emphasis is more on saving money on labor so that you can spend extravagantly on materials. If you already know that gravel and concrete aren't quite right for you, then this might be just the book you need.

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