QUESTION: I want to rip out the old carpeting in one room in my house to create a craft workshop for my wife. How can I make sure it’s a clean concrete surface that will require very little ...

When Patrick Egan came to redo the flooring of his Tucson ranch home, polished concrete was the last thing on his mind. The 1960s home had a brick floor, and Egan's thought was to add travertine tile ...

When properly maintained, polished concrete floors are a work of art. Taking a proactive approach to sweeping, mopping and rinsing concrete floors on a regular basis will help to maintain the ...

The flatness and levelness of concrete floors has become a big deal. If you've ever sat at a restaurant table that rocked up and down, slopping wine out of your glass and causing you to launch a ...

I am considering buying a wood frame house in Brooklyn with a dirt floor in the basement, but want to get an idea of just how much of an undertaking it would be to finish the floor. I have three ...

Far from the misconceptions of dark, damp, musty-smelling structures, today’s concrete homes can be designed to stand up to extreme weather, rising heating and cooling costs, and growing noise ...

Text description provided by the architects. The red house is designed as a repetitive building kit of insulated concrete elements. The load-bearing elements are arranged independently of the inner ...