An arch can make a decorative feature of your door and window openings – or even give a grand treatment to your garden gate. Here’s how to build a basic brick arch.
Building up the piers
1. Mark guide lines on the foundations to indicate the line of the arch, and start to build up the first [...]

Arches make attractive decorative features, ideal for enlivening a garden. They are most frequently seen creating access points from one side of a barrier to the other in fences, walls or hedges, but they are also used freestanding as pure ornament, clothed with climbing plants such as clematis and honeysuckle (Lonicera). The more ornate arches, [...]