Stamped Concrete

Decorative Concrete - Stampable Overlays
Someday soon Spring will come... I promise! However; it does seem bleak when you think about how we got snow on the first of April. Maybe Mother Nature is playing an April fools joke on us. Or maybe we are just lucky to live in the Midwest!

I decided I needed to lift up my gloomy spirits and stamped concrete would be a great post to do just that. The pictures exuberate warm weather and green grass that surround the many different textures and colors stamped concrete gives your home.

There are many different options you can do with stamped concrete. You can choose just one texture, no color. Otherwise you can spice it up with as many colors and stains and as many textures as you'd like.

Today I am posting one of my favorite pieces of stamped concrete. It's a Deep Limestone Texture. This particular stamped concrete project Concrete Arts did was for a pathway that went around a home.

For the next few posts, I'll give you other options that I really enjoy. Stay warm!

Carly Dus
Concrete Arts

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Lake Effect Project Finished

I finally got to go up to Osceola today to see the final product or our lake effect polishing project. I posted pictures below. It looks great! The lake is vibrant and portrays motion, the rock in the path jumps out at you, and the stampable overlay of the woodplank looks great. Check it out!

Carly

Concrete Arts

http://www.concretearts.com/

Polished Concrete - Lake effect

I wanted to share with you a job that we are doing up in Osceola, WI for an Airport Hanger. It's a really neat polishing job. When most people think of our concrete polishing service, they think of plain gray, commercial, and boring. What they don’t' know is the many advantages. It's extremely durable and versatile with ease of maintenance. You get the look of the different levels of rock exposure and can add in virtually any color.

We are in the process of completing the job. I wanted to give you some before pictures and then in a couple days I'll post the after shots.

Background:

What our client is looking for is a decorative space to give the illusion of his plane landing on water next to his cabin. To give that creative look, we polished the main water area to an exposure level 2 which shows a light sand look and blended two dye colors to give the illusion of water. From the Airport Hanger door to the Cabin door, we polished a path to an exposure level four which shows a heavy rock look. We used one dye, malt brown, on the path. Around his cabin we did a stampable overlay. The overlays used our wood plank stamp which was later stained to give a mottled look.

Carly

Concrete Arts

http://www.concretearts.com/