From concrete planters to tables, discover infinite projects for concrete pigment. It's amazing what colorful concrete art you can create!
Concrete and its malleable (yes malleable) properties, give us countless opportunities for creative expression. Without further ado, here is our selection of concrete facades, as captivating
Check out how to craft and make with concrete, tips and tricks for concrete crafting and information about various concrete mixes, how to finish
How to Cure Hypertufa correctly; give your project the best chance of surviving frost, rough handling, use and abuse; tips to properly curing your project...
Honestly, we would never in a million years think of decorating our homes with concrete. Seeing that gritty grey gloop brings to mind bright hard hats and gag-inducing construction smell. diy | concrete | diy concrete | diy projects | diy contrete projects | diy home decor
Make this simple concrete lighted step-spook with household waste and some concrete fabric draping. He is small scale and portable.
Make your own mold for concrete, pour your own concrete objects, It's quite easy to do using this recipe for mold making material
Which do you choose to make your hypertufa? Vermiculite or Perlite? What is the difference to your hypertufa project? So many questions and I am exploring to see if I can offer some explanations from
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Roman concrete is the most durable kind of concrete, and you can make it with little more than limestone, and volcanic ash and rock.
Complete list and links to tutorials for making all kinds of great concrete versions! Make Concrete Orbs Balls & Spheres with full tutorial links
Eden, a 22-story garden tower in the sky, shows the range in design for the London-based designer
Learn how to Antique Concrete to look aged with these simple step by step instructions and pictures. Easily create texture with Acrylic paint & matt medium
Faux Rocks That Look Real: I have been rock climbing and bouldering in the past 20 years and I really like rocks. I already had several small rocks in the back yard and wanted to add some larger ones. Unfortunately, there are no rocks and no boulders in the area where I live.…
We’ll show you how to remove moss from concrete using a pressure washer or common household items such as baking soda, bleach, vinegar, and a scrub brush.
Take your concrete crafts to the next level and be unique! This is a collection of some of my favourites and link to full tutorials
Wild Concrete is a photographic series of Romain Jacquet-Lagreze that has been published as a photo book in May 2014. It is a series about the resilience of nature in an urban environment. Focusing solely on the phenomena of trees sprouting from residential buildings in the busy districts of Hong Kong, Wild Concrete compares the living conditions between plants and humans both growing in a harsh surroundings. In this series the trees share the same exceptional qualities as their human counterparts: perseverance, diligence and independence.
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1. Louisiana’s Louis XV Tower In the heart of Louisiana, the antiques dealer Robert E. Smith’s home — a Louis XV fever dream — is surrounded by a moat and fronted by a pair of 300-year-old giant live oak trees. The 66-foot-high, five-story, sanded-concrete tower, which sits on 13 acres, features one large room per…
The only option is to enter the world of the collage itself, which is a psychic territory, unbounded by meaning. Michael Bracewell...
Rachel Whiteread Turner prize winner 1993 Charlotte Higgins The Guardian, Saturday 8 September 2007 23.45 BST In the summer of 1993 Rachel Whiteread began wor
Decades in the making, the Los Angeles City Council has approved regulations requiring the retrofit of vulnerable wood and concrete buildings.
Time to get that leftover paint out of your storage
To begin making our signature papercrete containers we begin by running newsprint through a strip cut paper shredder. We stuff the cut strips into five gallon buckets until the buckets are well filled. We then fill the buckets of strips with water and allow the strips to soak for at least a day. Many times these buckets will sit a few days before we get around to turning the soaked paper back into pulp. We have found that thoroughly soggy strips are easier to pulp. We try to keep several buckets of strips soaking at all times. These have been soaking for over two weeks but they cannot be over soaked. Well soaked strips are then turned to pulp with an electric drill and a small paint mixer. Five gallon of well soaked strips only take three or four minutes of mixing to get the results one needs for good pulp. The resulting pulp will be to soggy to use as is. We have a few buckets that over time have developed leaks so I drill lots of quarter inch holes along the sides and bottom of those old buckets. These buckets when filled with the soggy pulp will in twenty four hours time allow the pulp to drain to almost the exact consistency of moisture for proper mixing of the final recipe. Five Gallon of finished pulp We then have three gallon buckets we use to make individual recipes of papercrete mix. This bucket is ready for the addition of portland cement and perlite. We then use the same drill and mixer to mix this thoroughly. Once mixed it is ready to mold into whatever shape you have a mold for or can dream up! Mold filled and drying. Finished containers sitting in the greenhouse drying. Having just experienced record cold these containers might take as much as two weeks to completely dry. Once dry we will knock off the rough edges with sandpaper and place on pallets outside to weather until sales season begin early next year. We are expecting bumper sales in 2015!
We are not quite ready to announce that weathering steel is the new wood, but we are flirting with the idea.
Photographer Donald Niebyl documents the architectural monoliths that memorialise the region’s most turbulent era
Learn how to mix concrete so you get the right strength and consistency every time.
Use some old yarn or fabric strips to make these light weight concrete garden orbs. They make great accents to the garden as they stand up to all weather. This…
A wood fired earth oven can be made from readily available and often free materials. The process is deeply rewarding and the result is endless fun and delicious…
Well, one of my previous video and post was about the Hypertufa Making Marathon that we did a while back. But I have a whole big bunch of hypertufa planters
Concrete City in PA's Luzerne County is a former company town that now sits abandoned in the woods near Wilkes-Barre. Find out its history and see inside these decaying homes.
Concrete statuary in some of the gardens I've visited has always captivated me. Unfortunately most statuary I've priced is quite expensive and with my tight budget the chances were slim that any of these creations would ever find themselves in my gardens. However, several years ago I was intrigued when I stumbled upon instructions for making \
Original furniture design inspired by nature is always interesting
Доминирование человечества на нашей планете неоспоримо, но природа все равно находит «лазейки» и упорно продолжает сопротивление. Это напоминает нам о том, что однажды наши каменные джунгли будут полностью во власти природы. Серия работ французского художника Ромена Жаке-Лагреза, демонстрирующая деревья и прочие растения, прорастающие в самых необычных местах, например, сквозь бетонные стены, посвящена именно этой проблеме.
Terraforms by Jamie North, 2014, Sarah Cottier Gallery. Cement, marble waste, limestone, coal ash, organic matter and various Australian plants. https://jamienorth.com/
Do you use anything for reinforcing hypertufa? Is it necessary? If you do use reinforcement, what do you use? I can tell you what and when I use fibers or
How to Make a Garden Trough (Hypertufa Planter): Back in 1800s, crafty English farmers used to chisel feeding troughs for their animals out of local granite and sandstone. Nowadays, creative gardeners have adapted these old containers, which are now covered in moss and worn by decades of exposure …
Soviet architecture is characterized by the constant search for forms: characteristics of rationalism and constructivism attracted architects striving to give houses maximum functionality.
