Two bedroom, one and a half story house with crumbling front steps . Well, maybe crumbled front steps is a better description, but armed with concrete repair information gleaned from the popular This Old House television series, I managed to reassemble the steps into a reasonable facsimile of the original article.
Handmade tiles are a pretty good material to hide cosmetically challenged concrete.
So instead of cutting half and quarter sized tiles in the fired state, I cut them in the damp greenware state. The photo above illustrates the composition of the tile layout. I used six different Minnesota Clay cone 6 to cone 9 range glazes including New Albany Brown, Straw Tan, Soft White and Gloss White. I fired all the tiles in a gas kiln to cone 8-9. Approximately one-third of the tiles were also soda glazed.