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Choosing the right front door color is essential for welcoming guests and selling your house – Lenny Kravitz is showing us exactly how it’s done ...
The National Garden Scheme has unveiled the location of several secret Norfolk gardens that the public will be able to visit ...
“The wall is kind of like a historic monument for everybody who used to live or still lives in Altgeld Gardens,” a former resident says. But it’s in danger of being demolished.
Step off the dusty cobblestone streets and peek behind nondescript, weather-worn brick facades and encounter the startlingly beautiful courtyard gardens of the central Mexican town of San Miguel ...
People walking or driving by Doug and Corinne Gibb’s house in Derby have no idea that just across the lawn, inside the short brick walls of the front courtyard, two small ponds gurgle and bubble ...
A HOMEOWNER has won their fight to keep a pillared brick wall built outside a home in Ockendon without planning permission.
This well-presented home, built of brick and flint, has a recently refitted kitchen and lovely gardens, complete with putting ...
This process is called spalling and can be seen on garden walls, chimneys, parapet walls and under windows. The problem with garden or patio walls is there is usually no drainage plane for the bricks.
From brick walls to green hedges, a boundary defines your garden Viburnum tinus Garden boundaries are often an integral part of the overall design. They help to define your space and provide ...
ASK THE BUILDER | It's important to make sure the pathway from behind the wall to the front of the weep holes is wide open.
Q: I just purchased a 25-year-old home where the landscaping bed is against the brick front wall. A timber frame holds the dirt and mulch against the brick. Is this bad?