A garden wall isn’t a structure that is designed to hold the weight of soil. This can be an elegant addition to any home design, creating a wall of flowers and shrubbery where there was once ...

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 ...

To make a brick wall feel a bit more elevated, take inspiration from the 2022 House Beautiful Whole Home and install a retaining wall that features raised bricks in the design.

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Brick retaining walls also often provide nesting locales for ants, stinging insects and various pests. Carpenter ants are attracted to the hollow voids typically created during the construction ...

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 ...

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.