Garden Ornaments: 30 Beautiful Projects for Decorating Your Garden [Paperback]

Moira Hankinson (Author), Nicholas Hankinson (Author), Keith Davitt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2001

Today everyone wants to make the most of their outdoor space, whether it is a small patio, yard or mature garden. The furnished garden may contain grand and impressive statuary, fountains and follies, but just as visually exciting is the urban back yard paved and filled with stone urns and terracotta pots and featuring table and chairs for outdoor entertaining. Garden ornaments, furniture and accessories can be used as focal points on lawns, patios and walls. These objects can be moved around with the change of the seasons or your change of mood. Your "green" room can be decorated and redecorated just as you would inside the house.

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From the Publisher

Today everyone wants to make the most of their outdoor space, whether it is a small patio, yard or mature garden. The furnished garden may contain grand and impressive statuary, fountains and follies, but just as visually exciting is the urban back yard paved and filled with stone urns and terracotta pots and featuring table and chairs for outdoor entertaining. Garden ornaments, furniture and accessories can be used as focal points on lawns, patios and walls. These objects can be moved around with the change of the seasons or your change of mood. Your "green" room can be decorated and redecorated just as you would inside the house.

About the Author

Moira and Nicholas Hankinson moved to Somerset from London in 1983 and in 1991 and established Somerset Creative Products. Their partnership has resulted in a range of design-led garden, conservatory, and interior accessories and furniture, which are sold internationally. The products have enjoyed considerable media attention and have been featured in many home interest and style magazines. Adaptations from some of their most popular design are included as projects in this book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (April 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564967891
• ISBN-13: 978-1564967893
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 10.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,394,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, simple projects for home and garden, March 16, 2001

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C. Miller (Warsaw, MO 65355) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garden Ornaments: 30 Beautiful Projects for Decorating Your Garden (Paperback)

Garden Ornaments, 128 pages, over-size ppb.: This book was a real problem for me to review . . . because I want to, and don't have room to describe about 20 of the 30 projects within its pages that are so:

1. Cool looking 2. Inexpensive 3. Comparatively easy 4. Unique 5. Creative

and because they use things like old clay pots, polystyrene fish boxes, rope, paint, orange boxes, old garden tool heads, new and old lumber, simple tools, etc. Some projects are quick and easy; some, like the mosaic table top and the garden awning, are more involved. All come with detailed instructions and photographs.

There are bird houses and feeders, fountains, planters, and boxes. I love the boxes. The trug, garden tray, farrier's or herb box, and orange box planter are elegant in a plain and primitive way. Filled with fresh produce, dried herbs and flowers, pots of seedlings or flowers, etc., etc., etc., they would make beautiful gifts. A sundial, weather vane, wind chime, wonderful garden markers, and planters . . . did you ever think of gluing rope to a clay pot? or screwing a clay pot to a clay tile to hang on a wall? These folks did, and more, and the results are beautiful.

The authors finish the book with several pages of instruction or ideas for using color, choosing and using paints and stains, creating simple finishes to protect and age wood, metal, and clay surfaces.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful projects with easy to find materials, inpirational, June 12, 2001

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Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garden Ornaments: 30 Beautiful Projects for Decorating Your Garden (Paperback)

Garden ornaments are one of the hot decorating themes today. You see them in stores and catalogs all over. This book will inspire you to make your own unique and sophisticated items that will beautify and enhance your outdoor space for years to come.

The 30 projects include something for every taste and skill level. Some of my favorites are a stenciled sunflower tray, mosaic table, hammock, horse weather vane, garden awing, bat box, fish box planter, bird table, shell textured pot, evergreen topiary bird, window pane clock and a slate fountain. All have excellent step-by-step instructions accompanied by demonstrating photos. A number of the projects require basic woodworking skills and tools.

Following the projects are advice sections on using color, buying paints and stains, and choosing and preserving lumber. Instructions are included for creating five different simple finishes and for aging metal and terra cotta. A nice list of suppliers is in the back.

If you're looking to create some great summer projects to spruce up your garden this is the book for you.

1.0 out of 5 stars Keith Davitt is NOT a co-author of this book, January 17, 2012

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M. H. MacDougall (Coleville, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Garden Ornaments: 30 Beautiful Projects for Decorating Your Garden (Paperback)

My rating is not directed at the book per se, but rather at Amazon's description of it, which lists Keith Davitt as one of the authors. I have a high regard for Davitt's work and purchased this book in anticipation of seeing his contributions to it. Mistake.