Building Birdhouses [Paperback]

Don Vandervort (Editor), Sunset Books (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002

Whether the goal is adding a whimsical touch to their home or garden or attracting serious nesters, readers will flock to Building Birdhouses. It has over two dozen do-it-yourself projects for building birdhouses, bird feeders, and bird baths, ranging from functional to fanciful. Equal parts creative ideas, motivating photography, and practical instruction, Building Birdhouses covers the planning and design process, buying materials and tools, and basic woodworking and finish treatments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sunset Publishing Corporation (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0376010355
• ISBN-13: 978-0376010353
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best birdhouse book I've ever seen!, September 13, 2002

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This nifty book has the plans for making 26 birdhouses (and many more, with a little imagination). Each birdhouse project includes lists of materials and tools needed, patterns (when needed), step-by-step instructions and excellent exploded diagrams. The book is chocked full of color pictures, which go a long way towards showing how birdhouses can be used in decorating!

This is an excellent birdhouse book, perhaps the best I've ever seen! If you are interested in making colorful birdhouses, either for use or for decoration, then I cannot recommend this book enough. Buy it!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars horrible, March 29, 2005

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Humbert Humbert (Green HaahBaa, Mass.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Birdhouses (Paperback)

please ...please before you start your laying out....im sure it won't take long to figure out the dimensions on the plans...on your own none of the dimensions add up
...take the lighthouse for example..pg 106-109 the octogons are all messed up
pg. 108 add up the bottom octogondimensions . 1 3/4..+ 1 3/4..+ 2 1/2..does NOT add up to 6 1/16 ..did this book HAVE an editor?
a comment from anyone who feels this way would be welcome

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sunset building birdhouses, July 13, 2006

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B. latourette - See all my reviews
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i bought the book to make this incredible guitar birdhouse. when i gathered all the stuff and went to copy the pattern part was missing. i contacted sunset ,thye cant help me because that one was outsourced and not available, i was told it was left out intentionally to make me use my imagination/it was not a simple piece. it was the part where the keys and strings attach.i think i wasted my money. it was for a charity.