No comments about Designing & Building Decks & Patios (Grolier's Home Owning Made Easy).

1 comments about Decks: Easy-Step Books (Easy -Step Books).

1. The book certainly has the basics, but it also leaves out information that almost anyone building a deck will encounter. If everything goes perfectly, this book will do, but it doesn't help you when things aren't ideal.

1 comments about Deck Planner: 25 Outstanding Decks You Can Build.

1. I was very disappointed in this book. What the book shows you is 25 decks that, yes you can build, but what it dosn't tell you is that you have to order the plans at an additional cost! So what your really paying for in this book, is 25 pictures of decks. Yaaa.

No comments about Patio and Deck.

5 comments about Retreats: Handmade Hideaways to Refresh the Spirit.

1. I recently had a cabin built. If you can't stay away from yours, or think you wouldn't if you had one, this is THE book!



2. We have been searching for vacation home books as we plan our own, and this one, while handsome, was a bit of a disappointment. I love to sit and dream with great photos of retreats, but we couldn't relate to many of those shown here. Still, this is a nice little book. I highly recommend another new book called Second Home, which is large and colorful and mixes tours of real homes around the country (everything from oceanside homes and lake cottages to mountain cabins) with practical tips on finding the right location for us, and on building, decorating, remodeling, and so on. My husband and I keep grabbing Second Home away from each other as we go from picture to picture. (We found Second Home at Border's, but I now see that amazon stocks it. I don't know why it hasn't turned up on amazon's recommendations or "new and notable" lists yet.)



3. Although the book and information is helpful and thoroughly useful, this is not what I was looking for. I am having a hard time finding - a social area - party area - for outdoors to build along side of the pool. We find we need an (approx 25 x 12) area for indoor/outdoor use when we entertain.



4. A great coffee table book but it dosen't include any plans for building a retreat yourself. It isn't a do-it yourself type of book but it is informative and has great pictures.



5. I have picked it up for the photos over and over again, and read it more than a few times. It's pretty darn cool. To be clear, it is not a DIY information sort of book (but I don't think the title even suggests that anyway). Neat dreamy title, neat dreamy pictures, neat dreamy book. I bought this when we were first thinking about building a cabin, and it was really inspiring. Great pictures of lots of kinds of retreats, and really cool stories about people who created them. Thanks to the author for including all kinds of camps ... from tiny sheepwagons to tar-paper shacks and from log cabins to treehouses.

No comments about For Your Home: Porches and Sunrooms (For Your Home).

1 comments about Deck Essentials (Black & Decker Quick Steps).

1. Good book for the beginner however, I wish it provided more than one method of construction. I did find it helpful for the price.

No comments about Checking of CCA-treated radiata pine decking timber exposed to natural weathering.(chromated-copper-arsenate): An article from: Forest Products Journal.

No comments about Decks and Patios. S/C.

2 comments about The Garden Design Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures.

1. As a landscape architect, I find this book is an excellent resource for hardscape ideas for the garden. The book is divided into the basics planes of the garden ... floors, boundaries & dividers, overhead structures, etc. The wonderful photographics are invaluable as well as the discriptions telling the history, uses and construction of the site elements. I would recommend this book to professionals and weekend gardeners for its inspiration and knowledge.



2. I have owned this book for several years now and still use it regularly as a design reference. The examples and illustrations are pretty much all classics whether historic, traditional, or contemporary, and always seem fresh to my eye each time I pick up the book.