How to Make Concrete Garden Furniture and Accessories

This text contains a comprehensive guide to making concrete garden furniture. Complete with step-by-step instructions and helpful pictures, this text contains all the information an amateur needs to know to enable them to make the articles covered in this book. It encompasses information on tools, materials, and technique. Perfect for those with an interest in making their own garden utilities, this text also makes for a great DIY reference book and is not to be missed by the discerning handyman. The chapters of this book include: The Selection and Testing of Material; How to Proportion and Mix the Materials; Making Forms and Placing the Concrete; How to Make Garden Walls, Steps and Other Simple Utilities; How to Make Sundials, Benches and Swimming Pools; Bird Baths, Lanterns, Pottery and Water Gardens; and Making Concrete Garden Frames and Garden Rollers. We are proud to republish this text here complete with a new introduction on the history of furniture.