Staining concrete enhances visuals, hides flaws and imperfections, and adds warmth and character. Stamped overlays offer a quick, affordable, and high-end visual upgrade without major renovations.

Your front porch is the first impression your home makes on guests (or potential buyers if your house is about to hit the market). Sprucing up your front porch steps is an easy way to give your home a ...

Q: I've seen a few concrete porches with stucco exteriors being rebuilt around the Bay Area. Can you discuss their construction and what goes bad requiring their repair? I have a concrete porch that ...

No, Sarah, you don’t have to put up with that boring concrete front porch. You can have one that looks as nice as this. All this homeowner did is to clean the front porch concrete thoroughly and then ...

The summer sun can make walking in your bare feet - or bare paws - on concrete, porches and patios a painful experience. Glidden Paint by PPG, however, has a solution with its new Cool Surface ...

Q: A corner of our concrete porch has chipped off. Is there any way to repair this without replacing our entire porch? McLean, Va. A: It’s definitely possible to patch chipped concrete, even in a ...

Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design was pressed into the concrete. How ...

Q: My son’s house in Washington, D.C., is a bungalow and quite interesting-looking. Someone painted over the 8-by-6-foot concrete porch and four or five concrete steps, and made a mess of them, with ...

Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design that was pressed into the concrete.