Patio Installation

Read through step-by-step tutorials to help you prepare for any installation pertaining to your patio.

How to Install a Shade Sail

Carpenter Nathan Gilbert helps a homeowner create a cool, shady corner where she can watch her kids play in the pool.

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner install a bluestone patio in an urban backyard.

Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada installs a bluestone patio with a reclaimed granite fire pit

Purchase a heater to enjoy your patio or other outdoor living space year round. Our review goes over the best patio heaters on the market.

Ask This Old House mason Mark McCullough installs a custom metal railing using anchoring cement

Whether you do it yourself or hire someone for the job, here's what has to happen

In this how-to video, learn how to lay a beautiful bluestone patio with This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook

Rough-hewn slabs of native rock make a patio and stairs that are at home in the landscape

You don't have to hire a skilled mason to get a flat, uniformly handsome brick patio that stays that way.

Interested in laying your own stone patio? Read our guide for step-by-step instructions on creating a long-lasting patio.