Countertops are one area of your home in which is pays to splurge. You can cut corners in certain spots, but your countertops should never be one of them. Why? Because of how much time and energy you’ll spend directly on that surface. They’re functional for your meal prepping needs. They’re educational for your kid’s …
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Staining Concrete
How to skip the overly time consuming and overly expensive home renovation? When it comes to updating your home there is a long list of options which are less intrusive, less expensive and less drama than a full remodel. It’s pretty common for homeowners to want to change or update something in their home, but …
Preparing Your Backyard For A Summer Barbecue
The sun is shining, birds are chirping, and Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner. It’s the perfect time to celebrate outdoors with your friends and family! It’s pretty traditional to have a big, delicious backyard barbecue over Memorial Day weekend featuring burgers, potato salad, fresh lemonade, and a sweet homemade pie. Of course …
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Rock Carpet? What is it?
Rock Carpet. It sounds like a decorating choice of the Flintstone family, doesn’t it? The carpet is soft and lush, not sharp and hard like rocks. It might surprise you to learn that rock carpet is a growing new trend and a popular choice for flooring in new or remodeled homes. If you are building …
How to Spring Clean Your Concrete
Hard Rock Concrete Coatings | Blog When you think of Spring Cleaning your brain might offer up images of scrubbing bathtubs and mopping floors. If you take it outside it’s simply weeding the neglected flower beds and gardens, maybe doing a quick diagnostic of your sprinkling system. But if your Spring Cleaning leads you to …
Top 3 Reasons To Add A Concrete Pad
Now that the snow has melted and the grass is turning from gray to yellow to the eventual green, and soon you’ll have your yard back. You can almost smell the future barbecues and freshly mown trimmings. It’s a great time to start thinking about any potential yard improvements you may have been considering. Sometimes …
DIY Outdoor Concrete Projects
10 Easy Spring Concrete Projects Spring is coming! Or it may still be a ways off depending on where you live, but we are all anxiously awaiting its arrival. One of the major spring projects on everyone’s list is their yard. Clearing away the dead grayness and making way for the fresh green buds is …
Stamped Concrete
What You Need to Know Concrete is rapidly becoming a popular material for home builders, remodelers, DIY-ers, and landscapers, but not just for unfinished floors or garages! Concrete is becoming more and more versatile, allowing home owners, construction workers, and anyone with a vision to create the look they want. When you look at the …
What is Acid Staining Concrete
Concrete: gray, durable, boring, and made for basements, garages, driveways, and sidewalks. It’s a great thing to lay down UNDER your floors, but clearly, you wouldn’t want it to BE your floors, right? WRONG. You may think “gray, durable, boring” when you think concrete, but actually the options are much wider than boring gray. Concrete …
The Beauty of Acid Stained Concrete
Everyone has some concrete on their property if they live in a modern American home or community. Concrete is everywhere for a variety of reasons, but durability and affordability top that list. Concrete lasts years, even decades, without damage if done correctly and used well. Concrete is stable and reliable, which is why it is …