With the patio and stairs done, it was time to build concrete countertops for an outdoor kitchen—and that’s when things started going wrong. Between high humidity, inconsistent mixes, and the wrong ...

We decided to pour our own concrete kitchen countertops, and almost immediately realized we were in over our heads. Between bad prep, missing steps, and things literally going wrong mid-pour, the ...

The concrete countertops in Eleanor Zuckerman’s San Francisco kitchen are handcrafted works of art. Custom-designed by Fu-Tun Cheng of Berkeley, Calif.-based Cheng Concrete, they feature colors like ...