Extending A Privacy Fence
Home improvement information about building an extension to a fence, using treated wood lattice. Existing 4x4 fence posts are extended. 4'x8' sheets of lattice are cut smaller. 2x2 cedar frame material is custom-milled. After spray painting, the ... [... more]
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Building Custom Lattice
Home improvement information about making privacy lattice from thin wood slats. Thin strips of treated lumber are miter-cut and laid out on a piece of foam. The overlap points are stapled and the staple points are flattened out. While building a ... [... more]
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Residential Landscape Architecture (5th Edition)
 residential landscape: Very informative and usefull both for the beginer and experienced designer. It is a little high priced but worth it if you are in the design profession. Mike Norman Booth wrote the book on Landscape graphics: My rating is really 4 [... more]
$101.20
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Building A Soil Sifter
Home improvement or gardening information about building a soil sifter screen. A simple box is made from treated 2x4's. Hardware cloth is fastened to the bottom and extensions are added to keep the sifter box from sliding off the ... [... more]
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Cutting Simple Dog-Eared
Home improvement information about cutting a large volume of dog-eared fence boards. The first step was to cut one picket exactly 4 feet long. I made all the pickets from 12 foot long treated 1x6's, which gave a picket cost substantially less ... [... more]
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Moving A Utility Shed Across
Home improvement information about moving a shed with a pickup truck. A couple of crazy guys lift a shed off it's base, hitch it to a truck, and take it for a short drive. I have a contractor-friend who bought a house with an extra-large piece of ... [... more]
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Installing A Fence From
Home improvement information about building a fence, including making pickets, assembling fence sections, and installing 8-foot modules. Fence posts are placed in holes and 8' sections of fence are attached with metal brackets. At our project ... [... more]
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Pre-Assembling Fence Sections
Home improvement information about building a backyard fence project: pre-assembly of 8-foot fence segments. A simple fixture is made from OSB, lumber, and angle brackets. Eight foot sections of picket fence are assembled in minutes. To build a ... [... more]
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New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
New Orleans-Making An Urban Landscape: New Orleans is an "inevitable city on an impossible site" is what Pierce Lewis said in his book Making Of An Urban Landscape. I would add to that "an inevitable party on an impossible site by illicite [... more]
$19.50
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Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories
Landscape for Screenwriters: "Landscape Narratives" is a source book for screenwriters searching for thematic ideas. As writer and director, it helps me to decode places as textual landscape of my stories. Inspired by the readings I have [... more]
$75.00
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Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
outstanding and influential early American painter: President of the National Academy of Design from 1845 until his death in 1886, Asher Durand had a major influence on American painting in its early, formative years. Durand's influence with his [... more]
$55.00
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Genius in the Garden: Charles F. Gillette & Landscape ...
A Keen Insight of Early 20th Century Lanscape Architecture: Dr. Longest's work, "Genius in the Garden" is a brilliant achievement. While precise in scholarship, the text is a tremendously enjoyable read. Academician and lay-person alike will [... more]
$39.95
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