Download or read book Scott Cohen s Outdoor Kitchen Design Workbook written by Elizabeth Lexau and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create the outdoor kitchen of your dreams with this inspirational how-to guide for homeowners, designers, and contractors. In this book you will learn to design the perfect outdoor kitchen and bring it to life with Scott Cohen's award-winning design secrets, master step-by-step techniques for creating gorgeous cast-in-place concrete countertops, discover how to cast sparkling countertops using recycled glass, and add dazzling fiber optic lighting effects to your outdoor entertaining space. This book has over 200 inspirational full color photos inside!
Download or read book The Big Book of BBQ Plans written by Scott Cohen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want the ideal BBQ for some serious outdoor grilling? Award-winning garden designer and author Scott Cohen once again takes you from "dream it" to "do it" with this essential volume of BBQ plans. Packed with original drawings featuring some of Cohen's most inspired work, this resource includes detailed designs for over 60 hard-working, high appeal outdoor kitchens. Contractors and homeowners alike will find brilliant ideas and all the specifics they need to actually bring them to life. Every page spread features a new project with expertly illustrated elevations and footprints.
Download or read book Scott Cohen s Patio Covers Pergolas and Pavilions written by Scott Cohen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're looking for a pergola, patio cover, pavilion or palapa, you'll find the perfect structure for your outdoor living space in this new offering from garden design master, contractor, and construction defect expert witness, Scott Cohen. No outdoor room is complete without a bit of shelter for shade, privacy, and aesthetic appeal. Scott Cohen's newest book features 150 pages of gorgeous color photography and expert guidance to help you design a beautiful, functional structure for your backyard oasis. With specific tips and instructions, Cohen shows you how to do it right the first time by avoiding pitfalls and adding details to maximize your outdoor living enjoyment. You'll learn to create a patio structure that extends the hours and seasons you can use your backyard while enhancing the beauty and value of your property. Cohen's book features ideas to suit yards of every size and style including rustic, tropical, old world, English garden, mission, and modern. From simple screens and trellises to expansive pavilions complete with chandeliers and sound systems, Cohen shows how to create the right space for the outdoor lifestyle you've been dreaming of. Homeowners, landscape designers and builders will all find inspirational ideas and valuable advice in this must-have volume.
Download or read book The Candid Contractor written by Scott Cohen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest volume, Scott Cohen candidly shares his knowledge from more than 20 years of experience as a licensed landscape, swimming pool, and general contractor. Cohen has served as a construction defect expert witness for the California Contractor's State Licence Board (CSLB) for over a decade, inspecting hundreds of construction defect details of swimming pools, outdoor kitchens, ponds, water features, fire features, and more. The candid contractor offers his technical expertise as well as common sense advice to contractors and homeowners who plan to improve their yard.
Download or read book Ultimate Outdoor Kitchens written by Michelle Kodis and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a backyard barbeque in the mid-summer sun-author Michelle Kodis shows how to take that idea to an innovative new level! From a "Whimsical Outdoor Martini Bar" to an "Adobe Kitchen Enclosure," Ultimate Outdoor Kitchens features projects that reflect a range of styles, from sleek modernism to rustic country, with a wide array of architectural influences. With twenty-six chapters divided into three easy-to-navigate sections, Kodis makes it easy to determine which design style and budget will fit your backyard best! In "Just the Basics," readers will learn about ways to create a simple, down-to-the-basics outdoor kitchen/cooking station, with a focus on simplicity and affordability. "Creative Functionality" goes a step further, incorporating special design features and true outdoor "rooms." In "Just the Basics," readers will learn about ways to create a simple, down-to-the-basics outdoor kitchen/cooking station, with a focus on simplicity and affordability. "Creative Functionality" goes a step further, incorporating special design features and true outdoor "rooms."
Download or read book Scott Cohen s Outdoor Fireplaces Fire Pits written by Scott Cohen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backyard fire features are among today's hottest outdoor living trends. In his latest book, Scott Cohen's Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire-Pits, the acclaimed garden designer shares his secrets for using fire to turn any patio into a warm, inviting outdoor room. From romantic stone fireplaces to crowd-pleasing fire circles to dramatic fire bowls, torches and troughs, you'll find what you need to create dazzling nighttime displays in this essential volume for homeowners, outdoor designers and builders. The latest in his outdoor design series, Cohen's book includes hundreds of colorful, inspiring photos along with specific guidelines, plans, blueprints, and tips you can use to build your own outdoor fireplace or fire pit. From massive to modest, there are fire features here to suit nearly any yard. Cohen offers advice on choosing the appropriate feature for your space, lifestyle and entertaining needs. He covers aesthetics, safety, fuel options, cost considerations, sizing, layout, permitting and construction how-to's-all with the depth of detail that comes only from experience. He even shares his special techniques for combining fire and water to create stunning visual effects. A warming fire dramatically extends the time you're able to use your outdoor living space. Fire adds ambiance, light, romance and most of all relaxing comfort. When designed and crafted with the kind of care Cohen recommends, a backyard fire feature will give you and your guests years of enjoyment.
Download or read book The New Outdoor Kitchen written by Deborah Krasner and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grills, smokers, and wood-fired ovens are all options when planning an outdoor kitchen. This new guide covers all the choices, as well as giving information on outdoor heaters, social fire pits, bug control, lighting, sound systems, and water features.
Download or read book The Secret of Our Success written by Joseph Henrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Download or read book Dogscaping written by Thomas Barthel and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For dog owners and garden lovers alike, Dogscaping presents a plan for the family dog to live in perfect harmony with a green, beautiful backyard. Whether the family dog is a demon digger like a terrier or a shade-seeking greyhound, Dogscaping offers solutions for all dog owners to create the perfect backyard and garden for all members of the human and canine family. Tom Barthel, a certified master gardener and devoted dog owner, approaches the topic of landscaping for dogs organically;figuratively and literally, whenever possible. Encouraging the reader to pursue organic methods, the author includes a terrific chapter on organic lawns and offers tips for maintaining an earth-friendly (and dog-friendly) green-as-can-be lawn. Between the chapters of this book are profiles called "Organic Gardener: Organic Dog," in which he tells entertaining success stories of dog-owning organic gardeners and hobby farmers. In the chapter "Site Planning and Plant Selection," Barthel advises on how to plan the backyard space taking the dog's habits and proclivities in mind and then makes recommendations for various kinds of vines, groundcovers, shrubs, and urine-resistant plants. In its chapter about maintaining the garden and backyard, Dogscaping presents various organic pest and weed control options, which are safe for the dog and practical for the gardener. The author also offers a list of pest-discouraging plants and methods to deter unwanted weeds and visitors (gophers, deer, squirrels, etc.). In the greenest chapter in the book, "Recycling Home, Garden, and Yard Waste," Barthel makes a compelling case for composting, cataloging both the advantages and savings and offering an easy five-step method of composting. Other additions to the dog-friendly backyard include planting fruits and vegetables, adding a water feature, and incorporating decks, gazebos, pathways, and lighting, all of which are covered in individual chapters in this beautifully photographed book. The final chapter of the book "Creating Doggy Nirvana" provides fun ideas for owners to include dog-specific features into their backyard designs, including a pooch pergola, doggy sandbox, and disappearing fountain. The appendix provides US and North American zone maps. Index included.
Download or read book Scott Cohen s Poolscapes written by Scott Cohen and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 400 stunning color photos, this book is an informative resource with hundreds of backyard design ideas to introduce you to many possibilities for backyard pools that turn your home into a vacation spot that is the envy of all your friends. Whether you are looking for an intimate hydrotherapy spa, a splash-happy place for family fun, an invigorating exercise pool or an exquisite setting for outdoor entertaining, you will discover it in these breathtaking, high-performance pools and spas. Each chapter highlights a project from Scott Cohen's portfolio, featuring yards of every size, that have been transformed into extraordinary poolscapes. Glistening infinity pools, Tuscan-style fountains, outdoor waterfalls, and romantic tropical coves are also included-they are all here. This instructive guide illustrates the tips and techniques that go into a perfect pool landscape...tips you or your designer can use in your own landscaping plans. In addition to swimming pool designs and hot tub ideas, this book covers fountains and other water features.
Download or read book Scott Cohen s Family Friendly Landscapes written by Scott Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Illustrated with 265 color photos and friendly text, the author's sense of outdoor design is evident. He provides the guidance you need to help you make the most of your space outdoors, creating the proper landscape for the games you choose to play. Successfully create the ideal setting for ping-pong tournaments, imaginative space to inspire kid's games, or add splash-happy features to your pool"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Ideas and How To written by Better Homes & Gardens and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps homeowners evaluate their outdoor kitchen needs and wishes, explore the available options, and identify choices that will work for them. Charts, graphs, and cutaway diagrams pinpoint essential information, whether the homeowners are building the kitchen themselves or hiring a contractor to do the work. Inspirational photos of existing outdoor kitchens range from basic to elaborate. Real-life examples show the variety of amenities available and provide ideas for combining materials to create a style that harmonizes with the home's architectural style. The book gives plenty of practical advice for addressing each element needed in an outdoor kitchen: cooking surfaces, food preparation surfaces, and storage for food and supplies.
Download or read book Pool and Spa Perspectives written by Scott Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable three-volume series featuring perspective drawings from award-winning garden designer Scott Cohen is an absolute must-have for anyone looking for pool and spa design ideas. Whether youâre a homeowner designing your own backyard or a professional seeking to boost sales youâll find help here. Each volume is packed with 90 breathtaking backyard drawings demonstrating todayâs best pool and hot tub ideas. This collection of Cohenâs most popular pools is taken from Fetch-a-Sketch.com, a web site featuring backyard design ideas. If youâre an outdoor designer or contractor, you know that a first-class visual presentation is your most valuable sales tool. This collection gives outdoor contractors the chance to capture the imagination of their clients using gorgeous perspectives created by one of todayâs top designers. If youâre looking for backyard inspiration or want to learn how to build your own pool and spa, Pool Perspectives will become your ultimate design guide.
Download or read book Colonial Kitchens Their Furnishings and Their Gardens written by Frances Phipps and published by Dutton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outdoor Kitchens written by Better Homes and Gardens Books Staff and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cabana Anthology written by Martina Mondadori Sartogo and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabana Anthology, drawn from the sought-after, sumptuous biannual Cabana magazine, celebrates the most luxurious personal statements in interior design, lifestyle, architecture, and all related luxuries. Founded in 2014 by Martina Mondadori Sartogo, Cabana Anthology features the very best photography, interviews, profiles, and features from the publication's first five formative years and offers an extraordinary mix of topics, interiors, objects, and visual essays from contributors ranging from Justine Picardie, Patrick Kinmonth, and Christian Louboutin to Lauren Santo Domingo and Gianluca Longo, photographed by the likes of Miguel Flores-Vianna and Tim Beddow. With astonishing production values not seen since the legendary Flair magazine of the 1950s, this new book--which will be a true collector's item--is a must-have for regular subscribers, as well as art and design aficionados who missed out the first time around. Due to the unique cloth binding of this book, covers may vary slightly from the example shown here, and will be shipped to customers at random.
Download or read book Fifteen Minutes Outside written by Rebecca Cohen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every family will LOVE getting outside every day with the fun & easy tips in this book!"—Whitney Ferre, author of 33 Things to Know About Raising Creative Kids In just 15 minutes your kids can be unplugged from their screens and outside on an adventure, all thanks to the ultimate parenting resource to help you connect with your kids and get out of the house! A creative collection of activities for families, Fifteen Minutes Outside is filled with 365 days of quality time, outdoor adventures, and unplugged activities that require little time, cash, or patience. Perfect for parents, daycare workers, babysitters, and more, this book will keep kids busy and stop the dreaded "I'm bored!" from escaping their mouths.
