Country house

Dear editors! I am a long-time subscriber of yours, I have used many of the practical publications for home use and I eagerly await the next magazine every time: will there be something useful for DIYers there again? In the February issue I was interested in the article about protecting country buildings from lightning. I Read more…

In issue 6 for 2010, Modelist-Konstruktor told about repair and adjustment of a trimmer – a motor or electric scythe. The article is useful . What can I say, this tool is now widely used not only by summer residents and janitors, but also by farmers. Meanwhile, on small plots, in hard-to-reach places, an ordinary Read more…

In one of the spring programs of the Central Television, “You Can Do It,” enthusiasts of technical creativity got acquainted with a universal camp stove, or rather, an entire kitchen, which was designed and manufactured by an avid and experienced tourist I. Maslov. The advantages of the development he demonstrated are compactness, ease of transportation, Read more…

The GARDEN FURNITURE, which you will get acquainted with in today’s issue of KDM, successfully combines the qualities of a barbecue grill and an elegant garden table. Kebabs, chops, grilled chicken – all at once, in the heat of the day, and even in the open air – what could be more pleasant! A convenient Read more…

A small summer house that you can build on your own is the dream of many gardeners. In this article, we introduce readers to the development of the Novovyatsky wood panel plant – a project of a prefabricated panel house for a garden plot. Maximum functionality in a small size (the house has a room, Read more…

Have you ever thought about building your own sauna? This idea didn’t let me go for quite a long time, and then one day I decided: I’ll build a sauna in my garden! First, I began to study all the available materials about the construction of saunas. It was important to understand what types of Read more…

A garden house designed according to the “hut” scheme differs from traditional buildings in that it does not have walls: they are replaced by an enlarged roof, under which all the living quarters are located. Thanks to a simple design solution, such a country house can be quickly built. Of course, the gable roof, which Read more…

Several years ago, our family purchased a summer cottage that had not been cultivated for a long time. An attempt to dig it up by hand was unsuccessful and we were forced to hire people who plowed our site with a walk-behind tractor. They paid a decent amount for this. And then I thought that Read more…

The arched structure, under all other equal conditions, will always be stronger, more reliable, and cheaper than structures of other types—especially when the arch itself consists of rods working only in tension and compression. This was appreciated by the famous mechanic Kulibin, who created a large-scale model of an arched bridge to connect the banks Read more…