Discover that building your own deck is easy when you break it down into the twelve basic steps common to any deck project. You can easily design and plan a deck to exactly fit your needs and your building site.

Home plans with craftsman style, features porches, dormers, and open floor plans.

Duchscherer, a design historian and interior designer, provides descriptions of larger-scale Arts and Crafts style homes that are related to the bungalow and part of the Craftsman style, as well as hybrids. This is in an effort to expand ideas defining the Arts and Crafts home. With color and b&w photographs of exteriors and interiors (by Linda Svendsen) in addition to floor plans, he presents a historic overview and surveys the markers and origins...

"A comprehensive deck design tool that is packed with useful information and stunning, full-color photos. From choosing deck materials to complementing the architecture of your house, this book covers every aspect of the design process to help you create a custom deck that's perfect for your home and yard. Written and researched by noted DIY author and designer Chris Peterson, this is an all-new expansion of backlist favorite Portfolio of Deck Ideas....

"Today the Arts and Crafts movement is enjoying a popularity unrivalled since its inception. Adrian Tinniswood explains the movement's international influence and enduring appeal by exploring the design, decoration, furnishings, and gardens of both town and country houses. Chapters cover such themes as William Morris and his disciples; house built by architects for themselves; the distinctive American response to the Arts and Crafts style; and the...

Ideas to empower homeowners to transform their shelters into real homes.

Take a spectacular tour of four of Britain₂s most beautiful stately homes with this gorgeous DVD and book presentation: Highclere Castle, Hampton Court Palace, Althorp, and Chatsworth. And in Secrets of the Manor House, discover the realities of 'upstairs-downstairs' life and what it was like behind the 'green baize door.' Be transported back in time to the sumptuous world of Britain₂s greatest treasure houses!

"Take a tour through twenty-five modern log homes reborn in the Arts & Crafts tradition, and witness how Craftsman style combines with the latest in log hybrid architecture to create a totally new and unique genre of building in The Arts & Crafts Cabin. In this new title from log building expert Robbin Obomsawin, the rich Arts & Crafts heritage of the late 1800s that rebelled against mass-produced goods and the opulence of the Victorian era melds...

Illustrations and text describe how to build and repair porches, decks, and fences.

"The Secret Life of Victorian Houses" explores how the now classic and ever-popular style of 19th-century American residences and their interiors directly reflected the changing socio-economic structure of its day -- such as the changing role of women, the beginning of mass-produced goods and consumerism, middle-class aspirations, and the new morality.