Decks & Patios for Dummies by National Gardening Association, Robert Beckstrom (1998, Paperback, Illustrated)

Great book if you dont know what you are doing but want to try it yourself. Tells what you need to buy with options of different ways to build a deck or patio. It also tells you how to figure out where you want to put it along with surrounding landscape. It factors in sun and shade, rain and snow.....all weather types. I wish the pictures were in color (a personal preferance) and there were more of them. What's there is good though. Good book to buy. Worth my money!!