Creating Garden Accents

Book Description
Unique yard accents and garden ornaments are exploding across the marketplace, as homeowners personalize their landscapes with one-of-a-kind ornaments. Craft fairs and art shows have become dominated by these themes, and many popular garden ornaments can command three-figure prices at garden boutiques and upscale mail-order catalogues. Creating Garden Accents shows readers how to create nearly two dozen exciting new projects while spending just a fraction of what these items cost in stores or through mail order. Each project is a true work of art, and can be built by just about anyone. Many projects make ingenious use of ordinary building materials, such as copper plumbing pipes and fittings, and bagged concrete mixes.

Wait until your neighbors see the masterpieces you'll create. Copper sprinklers, an oriental bubbler fountain made from colored stones, decorative birdhouses, copper plant stakes topped with metal and glass "insects," an elegant pergola, and a rustic garden bench are just some of the projects that are shown.

About the Author
Jerri Farris is the author of some of Creative Publishing international's most innovative and best-selling books, including Building Garden Ornaments, Fences, Walls & Gates, Garden Style, and Flea Market Style. Jerri lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.


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Within these pages, you'll find complete project directions for 22 innovative garden accents to help you create a delightful, romantic landscape with your own personal style. Almost every garden has petunias; most have roses -- but how many gardens can boast a copper candle chandelier? A yin/yang fountain? A stone planter inlaid with stained glass? Soon, your garden can feature these and many more ingenious, one-of-a-kind touches. With a few common materials purchased at a hardware store, and just a little time, you'll learn how to build any of the projects in this book. You might even become inspired to design your own innovative works of garden art.


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