Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's how to build your own on a budget.

Retaining walls cost between $1,000 and $10,000 for a typical 4-foot by 25-foot wall or around $5,500 on average. The overall costs depend on the dimensions of your particular wall, the wall style ...

A thin veneer of lightweight, synthetic sandstone was applied to new concrete-block retaining walls. “Even my neighbor, a stickler for historical detail, didn’t detect that it was artificial ...

Stone mason, Kevin Smith, working on a natural stone retaining wall. Photo by Craig Lee/San Francisco Chronicle. CRAIG LEE. Garden retaining walls should, it seems, be made out of stone.