When you're looking for cinder block garden ideas, the sky's just about the limit for this versatile building material. Use them to create stylish walls, furniture, outdoor bars, planters, raised ...

Privacy, safety, security—these are only a few of the reasons that homeowners build solid, durable garden walls. Although it’s immensely satisfying to construct ...

The desire to have a bit of land to call your own is not an uncommon one. However, in the Bay Area, finding our own personal outdoor space can be a challenge. Some of us live in newer housing ...

Q: I have two deteriorating (but still standing) retaining walls made of timber and two even worse — i.e., leaning — cinder block retaining walls. I was planning to replace them all eventually, but to ...

Q. I want to build a retaining wall that’s going to look great for years. At my last house, I had a short retaining wall around a patio that started to lean out toward the lawn. The little wall was ...