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Balancing Your Statement with Nature’s Timelessness Color is about visual relationships and what makes our world vibrant. Choosing colors is generally the last and most difficult choice when making design decisions; it’s always easier to work on the space, the plan, the shape, and all the details of a project in a black-and-white world before considering color. It’s like staging …
A Monolithic Sculpture and Functional Concrete Kitchen Island A monolithic pour of a wall and countertop is an exciting and completely rewarding undertaking. There is an undeniable impact when the wall and the counter it supports are fused into an integral, sculptural form. Working with concrete from a sculptural, rather than just functional, perspective elevates the value and emotional appeal …
One Material Has You Covered From Traditional to Modern Quick Tour of Concrete Concrete has been used for centuries to form all sorts of structures and surfaces. Most people think of it as an exterior material for large bridges or skyscrapers, public sidewalks or roads. In fact, concrete has extensively been used as a decorative and structural material in architecture …
San Mateo, CA (MAY 16, 2013) – CHENG Concrete will showcase a series of five Concrete Garden Stepping Stone Molds at Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Events Center, May 18 and 19, 2013. The Berkeley, CA-based company is an online how-to center offering concrete design for the home, instruction and information anchored by a store featuring a complete …
Fu-Tung Cheng, author of Concrete Countertop books and founder of CHENG Concrete and CHENG Design speaks with DIY Live host Karl Champley about his roots in concrete, and how he uses the material today as a designer, working on a range of projects, from the small-scale using found molds as formwork and up to large scale Residential Architecture projects like …
Whether it’s a dramatic rethink of the layout or a more subtle fine-tuning of detail, an effective remodel transforms the mundane into the highly personal. Creating visual interest in a remodeling project can be achieved by a thoughtful use of materials and detailing. The trick is to combine the various elements into one harmonious look.
Fu-Tung Cheng announced the 2011 winners of CHENG Concrete’s annual Circle of Distinction Design Challenge at the 2011 Concrete decor Show & Spring Training, in Nashville, TN.
The word “counter” originally meant a surface in a business establishment for counting out goods and money. it has grown to mean a surface you can count on in a very different sense: countertops have become essential features of almost everybody’s lives. They’ve completely replaced the kitchen worktable of 100 years ago, and have similarly taken over bathrooms.
In the universe of materials used for DIY projects, you would likely classify concrete as relatively inexpensive, utilitarian and durable, maybe even humble. Most people don’t think of it as high-end or artistic. But armed with the right techniques, materials and skills, you can produce spectacular concrete creations.
Wai and Curtis Mo had never considered living in a home made mostly of concrete when they hired designer Fu-Tung Cheng of Berkeley, California-based Cheng Design. “They just wanted an open, free flowing space,” Cheng says of the couple, whose original plan called for an expansion of their San Francisco house, adding an office for Curtis, a study, and new …
