Outdoors
Whether you are planting flowers in the garden, adding a water feature to the yard or just need to mow the grass, Family Handyman covers all your outdoor needs.
Urban Garden Products We Know You’ll Love
You don’t need a huge backyard to have a breathtaking garden. These products turn even the smallest balcony into a lush, green space.
How to Install Concrete Flower Bed Edging
Edging lends a crisp, clean, finished look to a flower bed. It also keeps the lawn from migrating into the...
How to Pour a Concrete Slab Successfully: 31 Tips
Building a shed this spring? Before you can even think about raising the walls, it’s imperative to have a solid...
How to Build a Deck Over a Concrete Patio
The ultimate solution for a hopeless slab
How to Build a Hammock Awning
Rock-solid posts and overhead shading make this hammock the perfect retreat on warm summer days.
How to Cover a Concrete Patio With Pavers
No need to tear out an ugly slab—just hide it!
Build a Brick Pathway in the Garden
Build this handsome backyard feature in one weekend.
How to Estimate a Concrete Order
Calculate concrete prices and how many cubic yards of concrete you need for a walk, driveway or basement. How much...
Renew Your Concrete Patio: How to Stain Concrete
Get a new look with stain in two days
15 Perfect Patio Designs
From entertaining spaces to cooking stations to areas designed for lounging, patios can add value and comfort to your home....
Patio Tiles: How to Build a Patio With Ceramic Tile
Make patio tiles stand up to Mother Nature with these installation and care tips.
How to Build a Fire Table
A fire table is a beautiful addition to your outdoor living space—and an invitation to gather around. It's also a...
How to Build Pathways: Brick and Stone Pathways
With a little imagination and a lot of muscle, you can build this walk in a three-day weekend
How to Build a Garden Fountain
Cast this fountain in a weekend with a few bags of concrete and some hardware odds and ends
How to Build a Concrete Retaining Wall
Get your weekend workout and an attractive, hard-working wall with this DIY-friendly project
12 Stamped Concrete Patio Ideas We Love
A low-maintenance, durable stamped concrete patio is the perfect foundation for an outdoor living space where you can both relax...
How to Make a Modern Outdoor Fireplace
It’s surprisingly easy to build—and portable, too.
Use Brick Borders for Path Edging
Transform a dull concrete path into an elegant entrance to your home
How to Build a Stone Path and Steps
Modular blocks let you build like a master mason—even on slopes
How to Build a Wooden Boardwalk
Create a boardwalk in your back yard
How to Build a Post and Beam Pavilion
Does it seem like whenever you want to spend your day off outside, the weather foils your plans? Rain and...
Steppingstone Form
Build your own steppingstone from a 5-gallon bucket form!
Reader Project: Massive Backyard Stone Fireplace
David Peyton built this fireplace from 15 tons of assorted masonry: concrete, stone, block and firebrick. But there’s no mortar to...
Concrete Air Plant Planter
This modern desktop planter is perfect for low-maintenance air plants—and it only takes a few quick steps to complete.
How to Choose Modular Concrete Block
Sorting out the options
How to Build a Timber Frame Garden Arbor
You can cut perfect, old-style joints with standard tools...and keep all the fasteners out of sight
Build a Circular Patio and Retaining Wall
Hilly, small or ho-hum yard? Modular pavers and blocks let you carve out a unique retreat darn near anywhere!
Fountain: How to Build a Concrete Fountain
Carving stone requires years of training, extraordinary skill and endless patience—or you can cheat and use power tools.
Schoolhouse Storage Shed
If you've got big storage needs and are looking for style, this is the shed for you.
Dremel Ultra-Saw Works Great for Building a Planter
I decided to try my hand at building a cast concrete planter as research for a potential magazine story on...