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In the last post we looked at how we framed up the walls and roof of our outdoor kitchen so now let's look at the finishes we u...

In the last post I showed how we put in the block walls and concrete counter and integral sink, now we will start framing. This...

This is the first of a 3 part series on building the outdoor kitchen that you see above. In this first post we will take a look at ...

It was over 3 years ago we made our cardboard solar cooker  as a prototype for a more permanent cooker as we profiled in the post: ...

Now that our adobe wall is just over one year old  I thought it would be nice to give a look at how the adobe plaster has held up. ...

In this post of our series I want to take a look at how we plastered the wall  and Allison will explain how she and her sisters mad...

In this post on building our wall, after having looked at how we put the metal cap on in the last post, I want to now look at the s...

In this fourth part of our series on building the wall you see above  let's take a look at how we did the metal cap that will p...

In this post of Building An Adobe Wall we will start putting up adobe bricks. In the previous post we made our "gringo blocks...

After the first post in this series where we looked at how to build the stone foundation for our adobe wall we will now take a look ...

This is the first post in a six part series on how to build the adobe wall that you see in the above photo. All the posts in this...

For as long as I can remember I have tried to creatively reuse materials, especially recycled lumber. In this post let's look...

In the last post we looked at a set of steps with three treads: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps ,  and this tim...

In this post I want to go into how I build stone steps in the landscape  as part of the dry stack stone walls that I have already s...

In this post I want to take a look at some of the personal style issues  that may come up in building your own dry stack stone wall...

In the last post I did for this series on tips for building a dry stack stone wall  I showed how I go about building a dry stack wa...

In this post on building a dry stack stone wall we will look photo by photo  at the steps in building the wall, specifically aimed a...

In the previous post we took a look at the need for erosion control in our project area  and the tools that we would use in buildin...

This is the first in a series of tips on building dry stack stone retaining walls for landscaping, gained from my personal experience...