More permanent than a dry-laid brick sidewalk is its mortar-set cousin. The idea: a regular concrete sidewalk is poured, then topped by mortar-setting and grouting bricks into place atop the rough ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

Butch House likes to talk about concrete. And in San Antonio, that usually requires a conversation about clay soil, the unstable substance underlying home foundations, roads and the city’s 5,000 miles ...