Step-by-Step Outdoor Stonework
Subtitle: Over Twenty Easy-to-Build Projects for Your Patio and Garden
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: January 3, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780882668918
Subjects: Building skills; House maintenance; Gardening / Horticulture; Do-It-Yourself; House & Home; Outdoor & Recreational Areas - General; Do-It-Yourself - Masonry; Landscape; Gardening / Landscape; HOUSE & HOME / Do-It-Yourself / Masonry; HOUSE & HOME / Outdoor & Recreational Areas; Design and construction; Amateurs' manuals; Building, Stone; Garden structures
First sentence: NO BUILDING MATERIAL HAS A LONGER PEDIGREE THAN STONE; AFTER ALL, THE STONE AGE WAS THE FIRST RECOGNIZED PERIOD OF HUMAN CULTURE, AND EARLY MAN USED STONE NOT ONLY AS A SOURCE OF INVALUABLE TOOLS BUT ALSO AS A BUILDING MATERIAL OF UNPARALLELED STRENGTH, DURABILITY AND VERSATILITY.