Bøger af Scott Cohen

Want the ideal BBQ for some serious outdoor grilling? Award-winning garden designer and author Scott Cohen once again takes you from "dream it" to "do it" with this essential volume of BBQ plans. Packed with original drawings featuring some of Cohen's most inspired work, this resource includes detailed designs for over 60 hard-working, high appeal outdoor kitchens. Contractors and homeowners alike will find brilliant ideas and all the specifics they need to actually bring them to life. Every page spread features a new project with expertly illustrated elevations and footprints.

Whether you're looking for a pergola, patio cover, pavilion or palapa, you'll find the perfect structure for your outdoor living space in this new offering from garden design master, contractor, and construction defect expert witness, Scott Cohen. No outdoor room is complete without a bit of shelter for shade, privacy, and aesthetic appeal. Scott Cohen's newest book features 150 pages of gorgeous color photography and expert guidance to help you design a beautiful, functional structure for your backyard oasis. With specific tips and instructions, Cohen shows you how to do it right the first time by avoiding pitfalls and adding details to maximize your outdoor living enjoyment. You'll learn to create a patio structure that extends the hours and seasons you can use your backyard while enhancing the beauty and value of your property. Cohen's book features ideas to suit yards of every size and style including rustic, tropical, old world, English garden, mission, and modern. From simple screens and trellises to expansive pavilions complete with chandeliers and sound systems, Cohen shows how to create the right space for the outdoor lifestyle you've been dreaming of. Homeowners, landscape designers and builders will all find inspirational ideas and valuable advice in this must-have volume.

Backyard fire features are among today's hottest outdoor living trends. In his latest book, Scott Cohen's Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire-Pits, the acclaimed garden designer shares his secrets for using fire to turn any patio into a warm, inviting outdoor room. From romantic stone fireplaces to crowd-pleasing fire circles to dramatic fire bowls, torches and troughs, you'll find what you need to create dazzling nighttime displays in this essential volume for homeowners, outdoor designers and builders. The latest in his outdoor design series, Cohen's book includes hundreds of colorful, inspiring photos along with specific guidelines, plans, blueprints, and tips you can use to build your own outdoor fireplace or fire pit. From massive to modest, there are fire features here to suit nearly any yard. Cohen offers advice on choosing the appropriate feature for your space, lifestyle and entertaining needs. He covers aesthetics, safety, fuel options, cost considerations, sizing, layout, permitting and construction how-to's-all with the depth of detail that comes only from experience. He even shares his special techniques for combining fire and water to create stunning visual effects. A warming fire dramatically extends the time you're able to use your outdoor living space. Fire adds ambiance, light, romance and most of all relaxing comfort. When designed and crafted with the kind of care Cohen recommends, a backyard fire feature will give you and your guests years of enjoyment.

An obsessive, hilarious compendium of life's little annoyances, vexations, injustices, and petty pretensions. And the really funny thing about this list of 904 exasperating things? You feel better, just knowing that someone else is paying attention and finds it all annoying too!

A study of a pioneering design that will revolutionise the way we occupy space in galleries and museums, and including a number of interviews with architects, students and critics who have been involved in the project.

Dogs are humans best friends, and pets have, increasingly, become more like family members. Your castle is their castle and, with that in mind, this book combines tips and expertise for creating the perfect outdoor environment for your pet and gives answers to common behavioral problems such as barking and unwanted excavating of your yard. Through 170 images, youll be treated to residential landscape designs that feature pet friendly zones, including shade and sun areas, pet shelters, edible gardens, and containment. Patterns are included to inspire your own layout ideas. For landscapers, architects, and anyone who owns a pet, this book is a great resource and offers plenty of ideas for co-habitation

With over 400 stunning color photos, this book is an informative resource with hundreds of backyard design ideas to introduce you to many possibilities for backyard pools that turn your home into a vacation spot that is the envy of all your friends. Whether you are looking for an intimate hydrotherapy spa, a splash-happy place for family fun, an invigorating exercise pool or an exquisite setting for outdoor entertaining, you will discover it in these breathtaking, high-performance pools and spas. Each chapter highlights a project from Scott Cohen's portfolio, featuring yards of every size, that have been transformed into extraordinary poolscapes. Glistening infinity pools, Tuscan-style fountains, outdoor waterfalls, and romantic tropical coves are also included-they are all here. This instructive guide illustrates the tips and techniques that go into a perfect pool landscapetips you or your designer can use in your own landscaping plans. In addition to swimming pool designs and hot tub ideas, this book covers fountains and other water features.