Customer Reviews

Building Birdhouses

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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!

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

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.

Do Not Buy This Book. The plans are full of errors. I went to make the gazebo bird feeder. The directions say to cut three hexagons, and refer you to the diagram on the following page. The diagram on the next page is an octagon. And the measurements are off.

There are some decent basic designs, the instructions are fair. I've looked at several different books on birdhouses and they all seem to be mediocre. A couple of good designs and a bunch that don't appeal to me.

While I have not yet built any of the birdhouses found within this book, some of the design concepts are excellent! I've got to build some of these birdhouses!!! A truly unique castle-type birdhouse is found within this book......eye-catching indeed! I like how the book explains that what's attractive for humans isn't always so terribly appealing for birds......wherein the author proceeds to provide plans for "plain" birdhouses all the way up to cosmetically appealing birdhouses. Worth your money!