I know you all love books, so today I’ve got a fun giveaway for a new book, Big Impact Landscaping by Sara Bendrick. Transform your space on any budget with 28 DIY Projects for homeowners to beautify and add value to your home. Expert landscape designer and TV host of DIY Network’s I Hate My Yard, Sara packs 10 years of experience into this beautiful how-to guide that will teach readers the best, most efficient ways to elevate their yard and get the most out of it at every budget.
We all know firsthand how much landscaping projects impact a home. I can certainly attest to that with my current home and how much it changed when I landscaped the front yard. Talk about the wow factor!
The book is for crafty men and women who love to get creative and enjoy doing DIY projects.
Sara is giving away 2 copies to my readers, so all you have to do is leave a comment and tell me what sort of landscape project would you like to tackle at your house? Interested in adding a privacy screen, fireplace/firepit, dry creekbed, water feature? What’s on your list?
I’ll choose 2 winners at random and you’ll both get a book! Giveaway ends one week from today!
Bought an old home with large backyard. Would love a fire pit, fencing, pergola and lots of perennials!
I need this book! I’ve wanted a fire pit for years. Many years ago we had a waterfall and pond installed in our back yard. I requested a fireplace or pit to be added as well. At the time fire pits were not the rage and the designer talked me out of it. I’ve been kicking myself ever since. Maybe this book would give me the kick in the pants to diy my dream.
I am interested in making some changes, upgrades to our yard as our girls get older.
We always kept the space wide open for running around but I can now see that we can define some areas with a fire pit or pavers for a conversation area.
Bought some azaleas to line the driveway but they are dying. Looking for ways to beautify the front yard driveway area. Love color and flowers but the soil is challenging need help.
We enjoy doing our own work in and around the house and right now we need a privacy fence! Our neighbor’s back deck faces our deck from the side and we want something that would look natural and not too imposing. Basically our whole backyard needs an update and I can probably use Sara’s book to do all the updates we need.
We’ve lived in our home for 25 years – most while we raised our children. The area to the west of our house (the side yard) has been mostly neglected for much of that time. It has several nice trees and could benefit from a nice path, plantings, etc. This is where we’d focus.
We need a dry creek built, but I don’t know where to start.
We need a dry creek bed to slow down water on a slope. Also, a fire pit would be nice!
Would love to get a copy of Sara’s book! I need landscape help for sure, especially when I start thinking about water features. I don’t want it to sound or look like you just left a faucet running but don’t need Niagara Falls either!
I’m in the process of adding a hosta garden to the shaded area of my backyard. I could certainly use some advice. Someday, I’d like to include a water garden in the backyard as well. Thanks!!
We moved into our house almost 4 years ago and have been doing projects since. While most of the big items had been done to the inside, we’ve mostly made cosmetic changes; the outside has been a work in progress. I am new to gardening and planting flowers and we have a very large yard with so many projects including landscaping, building a retaining wall, moving a hot tub and building a deck and patio around it, adding a fire pit to the end of the retaining wall, pulling out shrubs and planting hydrangeas (my favorite) in their place, continuing to figure out what annuals/perennials work in my flower bed, figuring out what edibles work in my vegetable garden. There is so much work to do.
I would like to have a fire pit. Thanks.
Thank you for the chance to win. We have recently downsized and I am learning to “make do” with just container gardening. New ideas would be wonderful!!!!?
Would love to have a water feature ! They are so pretty and peaceful to hear
I would love to have some landscaping ideas for my front yard to add some much needed curb appeal!
I would love to get rid of some grass and make room for fire pit/conversation area. And always more perennials!
I would like to landscape some space that I have between two large tree at the very back of my lawn. I also need to find a way to get rid of mosquitoes.
It looks like a book with great ideas! My dream project is a small pond with waterfall, but we have a large yard and lots of room for improvements. I absolutely love the photo from her book of the screen fence.
We are working on the landscape at our lake house. This book is sure to give me some ideas!
I have a large yard-ten acres-and have a garden and a firepit and a small pool area but lots of room left for more…a water feature, maybe a dry creek bed, a bridge? I’m always looking for ideas!