Free Garden Pond Building Guides from the pages of Popular Mechanics Magazine

Step-by-step instructions on improving your backyard with beautiful water garden pond.

 

Build Your Own Pond, by Joseph Truini   The quick guide to building a stone-lined, fit-anywhere, good-looking backyard pond.

If you've always wanted a backyard pond, you're not alone. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners already have them and thousands more are installing them every year. Why all the fuss over a water-filled hole? Well, for one thing, gurgling waterfalls are inherently appealing. Also, with the growing popularity of "water gardening," many people look at their ponds as an interesting, ongoing project.
 

PopularMechanics.com  Over the years, Popular Mechanics Magazine has featured a variety of backyard building, home improvement and do-it-yourself woodwork projects as feature articles. Now, they offer many of the best projects on their website. These in-depth articles are illustrated with plans, photos and detailed isometric views. They follow the building from the planning stage through final finishing. So, they are step-by-step guides that will help you build the perfect project.