This collection of projects from the pages of award-winning Cottage Life magazine is packed with ideas to make your weekend retreat - or even your home - more comfortable and more fun. With its lively, enjoyable-to-read text and clear, step-by-step instructions, Docks & Projects offers a wealth of useful, entertaining suggestions your entire family will enjoy, indoors or out. It is lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings showing the various stages of construction. It also includes material and tool lists, and easy-to-follow plans and templates.
Packed full of nifty suggestions for your cottage, cabin, camp, or beach house,
Cottage Life Docks & Projects will earn a permanent place on your bookshelf
and be referred to for years to come.
This book will show you how to:
♦ Build a first-class floating dock
♦ Fix up your boat so it looks like new
♦ Carve a canoe paddle
♦ Save space with a canoe and sailboard rack or a dockside storage box
♦ Build a classic cottage chair and other deck furniture
♦ Make an easy-weave hammock and a rope mat
♦ Put in a flagpole, a flagstone path, a mortared stone wall
♦ Build a flight of wooden steps
♦ Make an old-fashioned crokinole board
♦ And much more
♦ With easy-to-follow instructions