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Yard Installation

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

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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.
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Our 7 Best Chicken Coop Picks (2024)

Our review gives you all of the information you need to purchase the best chicken coop for your yard, including a guide to consider important buying factors.
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How Do Dry Wells Work?

Dry wells are subsurface, engineered water displacement systems that collect and disperse unwanted water from rainstorms and runoff.
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How to Build a Prefab Stone Wall

Roger Cook, landscape contractor, visits a stone yard that makes prefabricated stone walls at their facility before installing them on-site.
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Building a Fire Pit from a Kit

Ask This Old House mason Mark McCullough installs a fire pit kit in this DIY Smarts project.
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How to Plant Hardier Foundation Plantings

Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada helps a homeowner replace and improve foundation plantings that have been crushed by snow piles
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How to Plant Edible Foundation Plants

A homeowner selects foundation plantings that include edible varieties for both people and wildlife.
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Cook Up a Great Outdoor Kitchen

Been hankering for an open-air cooking area? Here, our guide to the ingredients it takes to make a five-star space
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How to Plant a Bamboo Screen

This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a pair of homeowners select and plant a privacy screen using bamboo plants.
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Outdoor Showers 101

A place to rinse off outdoors is a no-brainer for beach dwellers. But it's also great for cleaning up grimy gardeners, sweaty Little Leaguers, and muddy mutts. Here's how to hook up one of your own.
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How to Install Drip Irrigation

Create an automatic watering system that makes sure lawn plants get their fill.
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Outdoor Speaker Systems: Planning Guide

Here’s how to plan the perfect outdoor audio systems.
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Joining Tongue-and-Groove Plywood

Coax those tongue-and-groove edges together for a tight, no-bounce fit
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Outdoor Kitchens

Why run back and forth to the house when you can move everything you need outside?
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How to Build a Retaining Wall

A beginner’s guide to retaining wall design—from common problems and the different types of materials to choose from, such as concrete, timber and stone.