 | A Panelized Home: All Decked Out
With beautiful ocean views to enjoy year-round, creating outdoor living spaces was part of the plan from day one.
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 | A Panelized Home: Tips for your Next Deck Project
Building a deck can add beauty and value to any home. Here, some advice before you get started.
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 | Accessible Solutions: Entrances
Most single-family homes have several different entrances including, for example, a front door, garage door, kitchen door, and deck or patio doors.
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 | Accessible Solutions: Walkways and Front Porches
Solving specific accessibility challenges with walkways and porches.
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 | Architectural Styles of Classical Columns
The column is a fundamental architectural element and one of the defining characteristics of Classical architecture.
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 | Concrete Pool Decks
A concrete pool deck must be safe, slip-resistant, and easy on the feet. Creating a deck that will last is another issue. Textures and coatings can give you a lasting deck to match your needs and weather challenges.
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 | Container Gardening 101
Some of the most spectacular gardens found anywhere are on the rooftops and patios of the world's largest cities.
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 | Creating Summer Shadows
Simple ideas to help create a shady spot to protect you from the hot summer sun.
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 | Decks as Outdoor Rooms
Decks are living rooms, breakfast rooms, exercise rooms, rooms for sunbathing, rooms for gatherings of friends and family, rooms for quiet times with a good book.
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 | EPA Pressures the Wood-Preservative Industry to Change
With an EPA ban on CCA-treated wood going into effect, are decks going to crumble, picnic tables disintegrate, and play sets collapse? Not likely. Learn what will replace it and how to deal with existing structures made from pressure-treated lumber.
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 | High-End Deck Materials
Eighty-five percent of all single-family homes have a deck or deck-like structure. The vast majority of these decks are made from pine and pressure-treated pine varieties. Many of these homes will replace that deck within ten years. High-end decking like cedar, redwood, and mahogany give homeowners beautiful long-lasting performance coupled with eye-catching beauty and elegance.
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 | Patio Gardens
Patio gardens soften the transition between indoors and outdoors by bringing plants into outdoor living areas.
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 | Planning & Building an Outdoor Deck
Before building a new deck, consider is size, placement, and how it will affect your house—and your neighbors—before you begin.
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 | Sunroom Planter Construction
Though often considered outdoor pieces, planters can be both functional and beautiful inside the home, especially in an enclosed porch or sunroom.
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 | Surround Your Hot Tub with a Deck
Which came first - the hot tub or the deck?
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 | Termites: Identification, Prevention and Control
Termites are the most destructive wood-destroying pest in the nation and successful management requires many special skills, including a working knowledge of building construction.
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 | Wood Deck Alternatives
Composite decking and plastic lumber present low-maintenance decking options for consumers. Structural and maintenance questions remain, though, as consumers look for a decking product that is truly maintenance-free.
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