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For those of us who remember how trendy the whole zodiac thing was in the 1970s, it’s fun to see it pop up now and again. Here’s an example, a stained and engraved zodiac pattern on concrete in a Chinese-style restaurant called Temptasian in Vernon, British Columbia.
The simple yet powerful design of this memorial included the piece of wreckage from the World Trade Center and a map of the Northeast coastline of the United States on concrete pavement that approaches the tattered beam. The map identifies the coastline and the three crash sites of that dreadful date.
Bob Harris, president of the Decorative Concrete Institute in Temple, Ga., is offering an innovative product to make decorative contractors’ lives a little easier.
In this living room the concrete was cleared of tack strips and glue and then thoroughly cleaned.The lines and flowing curves were drawn freehand using green chalk.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Visitor Center Shown is integrally colored concrete with brass letters placed in the surface.Custom mold were used to imprint a Stegosaurus and two shell fossils. The concrete was then ground down so the letters were level with the surface of the concrete. The grinding was performed with […]
A design from the front of a jewelry case in the owner’s family was painstakingly re-created in concrete and enclosed by a circular border.
A sophisticated design on a concrete floor made by cutting a series of straight lines into the floor.
Straight lines were created using a worm drive saw; arches were done with a saw mounted on a compass-like device.
The Mongoose 411, from Engrave-a-Crete, is a compact engraving saw with a powerful, high-rpm motor. Designed specifically for decorative concrete, it will enable you to easily cut beautiful patterns and designs with great accuracy, whether you’re making straight lines or circles.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a concrete contractor named Ed Chiuminatta pulled the wheels off a board and attached them to a Skilsaw. The result? A saw blade that could roll across green concrete, slicing a control joint in a fraction of the time it would take to carve the groove by hand.
