Projects large and small can enhance your home’s outdoor spaces. This season, consider crafting garden lanterns, making a garden gate, and creating a water garden. Follow the links below for how-to advice on these projects and more.
A web extra to Fine Gardening‘s Backyard Projects.
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How to Make Garden Lanterns Pierced-tin candleholders are easy to create and add a folk-art touch to your garden. Even better, most of the materials can be found in the recycling bin and in a reasonably well-stocked tool shed. |
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A Garden Set in Stone Visit a garden where rock is the star, and find tips on designing and creating walls, paths, steps, and focal points made of rock. |
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Build Brick Garden Pathways A veggie grower tired of contending wth mud and weeds built brick garden paths in his vegetable garden. Here, he offers advice on selecting and working with brick, preparing a foundation, blocking weeds, and filling gaps. |
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Video: Build a Rain Barrel For less than $50, you can build a rain barrel that will collect roof runoff that you can use for watering your garden. |
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Build a Rustic Trellis With scavenged vines and saplings, you can create handsome, one-of-a kind plant supports and decorative structures for your garden. |
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Planning Your First Water Garden An expert offers some important installation tips to help you get your feet wet. |
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How to Build a Stone-Edged Gravel Path Get expert advice on material selection, design, layout, and building techniques to help you create a cobblestone-lined gravel path. |
| Detailed project plans from our sister sites Click on the links to read an article summary; site membership is required to download the complete articles in pdf format. FineWoodworking.com and FineHomebuilding.com both offer free 14-day trial memberships. |
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Stone Steps *requires FineHomebuilding.com membership A stonemason reveals his techniques for installing stone steps in a way that makes them look like they’ve always been there. |
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Build an Adirondack Chair *requires FineWoodworking.com membership This version of the quintessentially American outdoor chair has a curved seat and back for added comfort. The article includes instructions for building the seat, back, side, and leg assemblies and a gallery of Adirondack chair designs. |
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Build a Garden Gate *requires FineWoodworking.com membership This sturdy garden gate features delicate round spindles with finials, a curved oxbow rail, twin panels, and pegged mortise-and-tenon joinery. |
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