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Outdoor living made elegant! Patios have been featured in landscapes for thousands of years, but never have they been more popular than now, as homeowners discover the elegance, long life, and easy maintenance of stone and decorative concrete surfaces. Today's homeowners can build with mosaic tiles just like the ancient Persians, or natural stone like the Greeks, but they also build amazing patios with colored, interlocking concrete pavers cast in geometric shapes, or they can stamp or stain poured concrete for truly amazing effects. Black Decker's The Complete Guide to Patios is a comprehensive guide that includes an introduction to the most popular building materials a fool proof method for design, planning and layout detailed step by step projects to help readers build any one of 12 different types of patios instructions for building popular patio accessories and features and tips for maintaining and repairing all types of patios. Table of Contents Introduction Design Patio Themes Dining Entertaining Private Expansive Courtyard Remote Multipurpose Welcoming Elements Your Patio Construction Tools Materials Techniques Preparing the Site Projects Patio Surfaces Sandset Brick Concrete Pavers Mortared Brick Sandset Flagstone Mortared Flagstone Seeded Concrete Wood Basic Concrete Slab Tile on Concrete Loose Material Framed Wood Wood Tile Installing Edging Finishing Touches Patio Lighting Outdoor Kitchens Cleaning Maintaining Patio Surfaces Resources Index About the Author Phil Schmidt has written several successful home improvement DIY books. Phil lives in Golden, Colorado.
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