Book of Backyard Projects Includes Woodworking
How much time do you spend in your backyard? Most of us spend a fair amount of time there, but do not dedicate as much effort to organizing it as we do the inside of our homes. I read an online book review that pointed me to a resource for designing an attractive backyard space. The book Sean Conway’s Cultivating Life: 125 Projects for Backyard Living gives projects for improving your backyard space that include small crafts and larger woodworking.
Sean Conway, host of the popular show “Cultivating Life,” which airs on WGN America, has teamed up with the show’s director and producer, Lee Alan Buttala, to create a book that is meant to teach us how to transform our backyards into living spaces for entertaining friends and family. It gives step-by-step, easy to follow instructions for converting your backyard into a kitchen, living space, or relaxing oasis that you can build yourself or turn into a family project.
Some of the small craft projects include tablecloths, candles, and gardening. The tablecloth is done with a sun-print process. Another project involves putting a tea candle in a glass of heirloom beans to make a votive. The gardening projects include planting rain lilies, putting a stone border around a perennial flowerbed, and hanging weed baskets for placing uprooted weeds from the garden.
The woodworking projects are on a larger scale, but also include easy-to-follow instructions and color photographs. If you are looking for an easy furniture idea, the book has a porch swing project. Some of the other woodworking projects are a corncrib-style barn for storage, a potting bench made of cedar, a rose trellis, and a storage area for lawn chairs, cushions, or pool toys. Like the smaller projects, the woodwork projects are all nature-based.
Whether you want to create small projects for your backyard space of do larger woodwork projects, this book can help you. You might as well make your backyard a great place to spend time in.
