Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Birdhouse Book: 40 Functional, Fantastic & Fanciful Homes To Make For Our Feathered Friends

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I have purchased several birdhouse books and have been mostly disapointed with dull clunky outdated designs that are just down right ugly. This book is fresh air with fresh modern designs that are fun for the builder not just the bird! If you just want a birdhouse of clunky 1 inch stock painted in eyesore babyblue dont buy this book. This is a fun easy to build birdhouse book for the discriminating creative birdhouse builder.

If you want to build a birdhouse and need help with the design, you'll like this book. It will stretch your imagination and teach you a new way of looking at a most common object.

It includes forty birdhouse designs from twenty different designers, each text illustrated with photos and drawings. Designs range from totally "cute" to ultra contemporary and everything in between. Construction difficulty varies from simple, elementary butt joints to more sophisticated and difficult curved laminations. Ya pays your money, as the saying goes, and ya takes yer cherce!

Each plan has a materials list, a cut list, a tools needed list, and step-by-step instructions. I can see an entire family, Dad, Mom and kids, all building different bird houses out of this book, each according to his or her interests and woodworking skill level.

My personal favorites are the Diad, a modern back-to-back "duplex" for two separate bird families; the weathered barn with the Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco ad on the side; and the design that is patterned after the work of the great architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Whether you build one of these designs or a design of your own, you'll find in this book a wealth of tips on how to attract and protect "our feathered friends."

My dad makes birdhouses as a hobby. Someone gave him this book for his birthday. This is a great book with super ideas. He liked it so much, I plan on getting another one for a gift.

Hello All,

Birds never had it so good or, at least that's what you'll be saying after you build a few of the houses in this book. I never in my WILDEST dreams, would have come up with some of the designs in this book! Creative to say the least!! If I have one gripe about this book, it would be that the plans could have been a WEE bit clearer. The directions / drawings on some of the projects aren't as clear as I've seen in other publications so, this is why I'm giving it a lower rating. Also, I think the book could state SOMEWHERE in it that, "birds don't really like painted houses".

Other than those points I've pointed out here, it's a good book at a reasonable price.

Ciao!!

Good for beginners. Would like more information on best types of woods. Where to find metal overlaps for bird erances.

I am very satisfied with this book. It gives detailed instructions on building bird houses. I wanted it for an instruction material for my grandaughter to learn woodworking.