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 ...

CAN-DO ATTITUDE: Jennifer Vitagliano has great faith in her husband's renovation skills. She likes to come up with ideas and persuade him to make them happen. "Ric will tell me, 'I can't do this. I've ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modular construction is attracting more and more people (even young people, as we saw this week). However, some still reject it as unstable, a myth that we will demolish with this concrete prefab ...

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 ...

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 ...