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You can DIY patio furniture out of cinder blocks, making benches and tables for your outdoor area. The bricks are the armrest ...

We also installed sleepers to support the steps we later added to the concrete stoop. For a standard decking design: You could lay your sleepers directly on the concrete, but we bought a 1/2-in. thick ...