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15 Basic Ways To Landscape Your Homepage

A well designed fence offers exciting and unlimited possibilities for the artistic arrangement or training of lush plants against them. Some plants which are good for this purpose include climbing roses, honeysuckles, other vines or ivies.

As divisions and walls for outdoor areas, fences serve many useful purposes and assume many forms. They could be used to separate the service yard from the gardening and living areas in endless designs and patterns. Here again materials selected should be harmonious with the entire surroundings. Louver, board-and-board, and lattices are often used for tin's purpose.

For boundary divisions or fences around the front of the yard, low post and rail types are usually quite satisfactory. The endless picket still remains one of the most popular and widely used property fences. Picket fences vary in width, shape and spacing. They may be flat and wide with pointed, square or round tops, or cut in various other patterns to harmonize with your home.

In some formally styled houses of brick, stone or stucco, house and garden often may be attractively tied together by using pickets set on low walls. The walls are usually constructed of the same material used on the exterior of the house.

Fence costs vary throughout the country but woven saplings, solid hoards or louvered types are usually most expensive. Post and rail, and post and hoard are less expensive. Pickets, board-and-board and palings are generally the least expensive.

Banks

MAKING MONEY while beautifying your home might seem to be a nearly impossible task. However, the spare-time construction of a retaining wall or graded bank iso ne sure way for you to increase property values. Level land on your lot costs a good many dollars per square foot. Convert the sloping and unusable portions of the property into terraces and presto-you have added that much more value. Retaining walls are also a cheap and attractive way to insure yourself against lawsuits. For if there is any certain way to lose out, it's to pay for both your own and the neighbor's storm damage. Construct a solid retaining wall before the lawsuits begin. The next rainstorm might be the one to wash your ground onto the property next door.