Karvekrete

Homeowners are always searching for new things to explore when improving his or her home. One easy way to give the exterior of your home a "face lift" is to use Karvekrete. Karvekrete is a LifeTime Floors product that Concrete Arts uses for exterior plaster use. Karvkrete is meant to be hand troweled on and can be hand carved or stamped. Below is just one of the many projects we've done in the last year.

Carly Dus

Concrete Arts

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One of my Favorite Pool Decks

I wanted to post for everyone one of my favorite pool decks of all time. I love how we integrated booth the patio and pool deck together while using different stain options and faux saw cuts to add a unique element.

Carly Dus

Concrete Arts

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Pier 500 Countertop

A local restaurant, Pier 500, came to us with an idea to remodel its men and women's restrooms. It wanted the focal point of these to spaces to be the concrete sinks. It wanted the feel of the room to be inviting and warm with a hint of creativity and innovation. We showed them around our showroom to get a feel of what direction it would like to head with its remodel. Immediately, textures popped and innovative ideas started rolling in.

Concrete Arts created two beautiful sinks that combined two different textures. Below are a few photographs that capture the different elements that these sinks hold. Needless to say, the sinks are fun and creative but it also ties in colors that are very warm and inviting to create a very comfy and creative room.


Carly Dus
Concrete Arts

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Hockey Table just for Christmas

Whether you call it a rec room, man cave, dude room, or entertainment area, theme rooms are becoming a great way to make a lower level basement into a fun, hang out place.

A couple in River Falls, WI did just that. Their lower level was remodeled to mimic a hockey rink. With rink boards, jerseys and hockey frames, there was only one piece left to set this "hockey center" apart, a hockey concrete countertop.

The countertop was a total of 12 feet long, colored wicker tan, and included all types of hockey equipment and memorabilia. The parents chose their daughters skates, helmet, gloves, sticks, and medals to embed into the countertop. To mask the seams in the large top, two hockey sticks were placed to give the illusion of one large precast piece.

The result was impressive. This family truly has a one-of-a-kind countertop. And we delivered it just in time before all the Holiday parties.


Merry Christmas!

Carly Dus
Concrete Arts
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Best Precast Project - Gold Award

Bomanite Corporation announced the 2008 Project of the Year awards at its annual conference held in Kansas City, MO. Concrete Arts took home the prestigious Best Precast Project, Gold Award. The Best Precast Project featured a fireplace we did in Lakeville, MN. This fireplace project encompasses everything an award captures, artistry, innovation, and ambition.

This residential fireplace was made entirely out of concrete. Concrete Arts hand chiseled each individual pre casted block, totaling around 100 individual blocks. Each block was acid stained with two different colors. The base color was a walnut stain and accented with Auburn to create dimension. The lighter color stones are the natural concrete mix that simulates natural limestone.

Carly Dus

Concrete Arts

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Concrete Countertops - Vessel Sinks

Vessel sinks used to be only used for classy venues such as sushi bars or upscale restaurants. Slowly this popular trend has been moving into the everyday homes and taken on many different looks from contemporary to industrial. Vessel sinks are formed from many different types of material, copper, limestone, bronze, glass, pewter, wood, ceramic, metals, and various stones. What some designers have neglected when buying or creating vessels sinks is concrete.

Vessels sinks allow a person to determine his or her own style. Now concrete vessel sinks can elaborate and take his or her creativity even further at a more reasonable price. The countertop below shows just how eye-catching and unique one can be with a vessel sink and countertop.

This particular vessel sink is integrally colored slate gray with the base countertop colored a darker slate gray. To tie the countertop and sink into the rest of the room, black, violet, and clear glass with mirror mixed in was exposed to add an interesting element to the piece.

Carly Dus

Concrete Arts

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Asian Retreat

An architect striving for an "Asian Feel" commissioned Concrete Arts to create a surface of his front landscaping area and river side patio. He wanted to incorporate a unique design, product and methodology for this 1,340 square foot area. The result was a clever combination of local materials with an Eastern feel. The lake side patio was poured with our custom Revealed blend of white portland cement and salt and pepper granite aggregates. The front sidewalk was also poured with this mix with granite pepples hand placed in a diamond pattern. The pepples were slightly elevated above the rest of the surface area for texture.

Carly Dus

Concrete Arts

http://www.concretearts.com/