Concrete is a popular building material because it is inexpensive and durable. Plain gray exterior concrete — whether in poured-in-place, precast or block form — tends to be a little boring to look at ...

With dozens of customizable sheens and colors, there’s no better all-around option than our top pick for the best concrete paint. HGTV Home’s Weathershield paint by Sherwin Williams blocks dirt and ...

Balconies are filled with potential that very few ever see. They sit empty, aside from storage for bikes or ...

Q: When we added handrails to our front entry last summer, the contractor had to extend the bottom steps to meet code requirements for the rail supports. The new concrete isn’t the same color, so I ...

Concrete is amazing. All you have to do is look at ancient Roman ruins to realize how durable, flexible, and strong concrete can be as a building material. This can lead to the occasional moment of ...

The rear brick facade of my limestone has a couple coats of this concrete/paint stuff called thoroseal on it, which is peeling and cracking in a few places (tho generally holding up okay). I know ...

NORTHAMPTON — Seven artists, buckets of paint, and lots of traffic barriers. That’s the scene this week in downtown Northampton as artists work to beautify the concrete traffic barriers that have ...