Lisa O'Hern

Creating the ideal outdoor areas around your home requires considerable thought. You’ll need to consider many different factors, including what paving method and materials you want to use for your patio, driveway, walkways, pool deck and other paved surfaces.  You have quite a few choices available, including natural stone, brick and pavers, but stamped concrete …

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Many people don’t give their garage floors much thought. The garage is often relegated as storage space or the area where you pile your lawn maintenance equipment. If the floor is covered up with mowers, trimmers, grass clippings and gas cans, it’s easy to forget about it. However, if you have decided that it’s time …

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The garage is probably the most overlooked, underappreciated area of the home. It’s a utilitarian space, used to store vehicles, lawn mowers and trimmers, or to pile your unused junk in boxes. However, it can be much more than that. Your garage can be a beautiful area that matches the rest of your home in …

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Let’s get one thing straight first. Stain, as used in ‘acid staining vs. water-based staining’, is used to describe a transformation of a standard grey concrete (usually cement flooring) into decorative and attractive concrete by coating it with colored stains. There are two types of concrete staining, the acid staining and the water-based staining. Acid …

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Thinking of ways how you can transform your plain grey concrete garage floor? Want to have a garage that has a showroom feel to it? Can’t wait to invite your friends and show off your polished parking area at home? There are many ways how you can enhance the look and feel of your garage. …

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The practice of stamping concrete began over 50 years ago. There are two ways of stamping a concrete. The first one is done by removing the concrete and re-molded with a stamped pattern already pressed to it. The second one is through what we now call a stamped concrete overlay. Between these two, many prefer …

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Concrete Driveways St Louis MO is able to advise the best methods of maintaining a decorative driveway. The maintenance of such driveways, however, is not that difficult to do or understand. More often that not, common sense guides any homeowner. Obviously, the main maintenance issue is how to clean concrete driveway. Daily get a hose …

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