Before you start building a stone retaining wall, it's important to assess your garden's landscape and determine where the ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...

This handsome stone gateway is at a municipal golf course in Cincinnati. My grandfather, who was a baker, built decorative garden walls and arches like this. So can you! (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective ...

Historical building methodsEarly Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber ...

The Loudon Historical Society is sponsoring a program titled Discovering New England Stone Walls presented by Kevin Gardner. The program is scheduled for May 15 at 6:30 p.m. The program, free and open ...

AJ Working Details is back. This time it covers 20 projects selected from the past 10 years of AJ Specification, split across ...

Cormac MacConnell explores the history, artistry and skill behind Ireland's iconic stone walls and recalls his memories of some of the more wonderful examples throughout his life. There is a young, ...