By Vanessa Salvia Julie and Chris Hawkins and their two children, now aged 2 1/2 and 4 1/2, used to live in San Francisco, California. There they were all crammed into a 1,200-square-foot apartment. They decided to relocate, and started searching for family homes in the Eugene, Oregon, area. Julie

By FuTung Cheng We were born to make things, not just have things made for us. It makes us happy, to make things. Timeless design grows on trees, or as the song goes, “under the rocks and stones, in the silent water.” It can be hidden, pressed under tectonic plates,

By Vanessa Salvia There is a common saying about art—we don’t always know how to define it but we know it when we see it. In some ways, that’s true for decorative concrete. Because it can encompass so many different forms, shapes and textures, decorative concrete is not easily explainable.