Discover the satisfaction of building your own lawn chairs, fences, bootjacks, cold frames, and compost bins. Ken Braren and Roger Griffith show you how to build a variety of easy-to-make items for your home and garden that are designed to save you money and make your life easier. Even if you have limited construction experience, the simple instructions and clear illustrations in this guide will have you confidently crafting your own potting bench and building a basement closet. Ken Braren is the co-author of HomeMade: 101 Easy-to-Make Things for Your Garden, Home, or Farm. Part 1 Easy-To-Make Things for Your Home Sawhorse Carpenter's Tool Box Workbench Basement Closet Potting Bench Sandpaper Block Brush Cleaner Wood Stove Heater Firewood Brace Sawbuck and more... Part 2 Easy-To-Make Things for Your Garden Tool Shed Tool Storage Tool Sharpening Tool Cleaner Tool Finder Tool Brander Hose Storage Handy Box Tea, Garden Style Compost Materials and more... Part 3 Easy-To-Make Things for Your Farm Hog House Pig Feeder Movable Shed Hog Fence Movable Loading Chute Portable Horse Stable Corral Gate Goat Milking Stand Watering Trough Poultry House and more... If you want to save time and money, or make your life easier and more productive, look through this book. We believe you will find something that will be easy for you to build, even with only hand tools and limited experience. Here are some of those ideas: -- Fireplace front, to conserve heat. -- Root cellar, to store those valuable vegetables through the winter. -- Fences, gates, stiles -- even a turnstile. -- Animal shelters -- from birds to horses. -- Window greenhouse. -- Inexpensive solar drier. -- And dozens of small, useful items, such as stove wood containers, a macrame hanger, tool storage units, and seed containers. "If you want to save time and money, or make your life easier and more productive, look through this book. You will find something that will help you, something that will be easy for you to build - even with only hand tools and limited experience." - Country Small Stock Journal

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