Concrete slabs typically experience shrinkage of 1/8 inch for slab sections 20 feet long. If joint spacing is 10 feet, then each joint would open 1/16 inch wide.

Emily and Paul saw the potential in the "funky detached garage full of cobwebs" in the yard of their Portland house, and turned this tiny space into a gorgeous ADU they rent out.

She’s the perfect person to go to if you hate your blah-gray concrete driveway ... front yard and the garage–turned–recording studio (championed by Design Assembly, which handled the ...