An Introduction to Do-It-Yourself Deck Building

Better Homes and Gardens Landscape and Deck Designer

So you've become interested in deck construction, but you're not clear on how to build a deck? You’ve seen hundreds of examples of deck design on other people’s landscapes, and you like the idea that building a deck will mean having an attractive “outdoor living space” at your disposal. Problem is, you don’t know where to begin, you say? Your do-it-yourself carpentry skills are basic at best, and the prospect of deck design and construction from scratch is rather daunting?

Landscaping novices and buyers of new homes can profit from a practical, working definition of "landscaping."

By definition, to be properly said to be "landscaping" a property, you must be making home improvements on that property's grounds -- either in a practical or in an aesthetic way. In an extended sense, everything on your property that stands outside of the home itself is part of a property's landscaping. Simply put, if you can see an object, then it is affecting the overall aesthetics of the grounds of a property -- i.e., its landscaping.

A house and its landscaping should be harmonious with each other. Achieving such harmony is sometimes possible intuitively; but if you're more serious about complementing your house with your landscaping, you really need to take matters to the next level -- landscape design.

Landscape design is an art form.

 

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