You may think brick garden borders are for more traditional gardens, but brick edging is actually pretty versatile and is a stylish way to enhance your garden's appearance and functionality ...

Q: When we bought our 1942 house nine years ago, it came with a brick retaining wall 35 feet long and 4½-to-5½ feet tall. Holding up the stairs to our front door, it was already leaning to one ...

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This patio was nestled under the shade of two giant maple trees, which were up on a lawn supported by a small brick retaining wall her husband had built 15 years earlier. The patio was the perfect ...

Now gabions have come to many backyards. Some consider it a piece of art. Others describe it as an attractive, effective and inexpensive retaining-wall system. Bill Hilfiker owns Hilfiker ...

This adds to the stability of your retaining wall. Also, ensure each row is set back at least ¾ of an inch so that you end up with the finished wall leaning slightly backward.

But once you get higher than that, things can go wrong fast. I'll never forget the first retaining wall I built. It was a 50-foot-long wall that started out 1 foot high but ended up 42 inches high.

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