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Using Your Concrete Cutting Saw Skills

Tips & How-Tos Concrete Art Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 16 No. 4 - May/June 2016 by Joe Maty Comments are Disabled

Cary Grant — the Las Vegas decorative-concrete impresario, not the Hollywood movie icon — has crafted dramatic masterpieces through his company, Floor Seasons, that could be considered Oscar-worthy, if there was a decorative concrete category.

Artisan Grows Up in Concrete Industry and Becomes a Stamping Success

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Featured Contractor Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 16 No. 4 - May/June 2016 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

Robert Salinas, 58, jokes that he has 50 years of concrete experience. That’s not too far off from the truth, because as a youngster he recalls helping to place concrete for the pool company his uncle and father worked at in San Antonio, Texas.

Concrete Pool Embedded with LED Lights

Outdoor Spaces Vol. 15 No. 7 - October 2015 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

The pool, then, needed a finish worthy of the rest of the home. Luckily, her contractor-husband, Jeff Barger, handed their concrete contractor, William David Reynolds, a copy of Concrete Decor magazine that featured a patio embedded with fiber optics, providing the elegant touch the pool needed.

Mind-Body-Soul and Concrete at the Benesse Healing Garden

Outdoor Spaces Concrete Art Concrete Placing Vol. 15 No. 6 - August/September 2015 by Stacey Enesey Klemenc Comments are Disabled

Benesse Healing Garden at the Benesse Oncology Center, part of the Major Hospital system in Shelbyville, is an integral part of Benesse’s mind-body-soul treatment philosophy. The almost one-acre park has four water features, meandering walkways, lush plantings and several seating areas that allow for social interaction or privacy.

Wisconsin’s Artisan in Concrete Nolan King

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Featured Contractor Vertical & Carved Concrete Precast Concrete Vol. 15 No. 6 - August/September 2015 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

Nolan King, owner of King Architectural Concrete and Construction LLC in River Falls, Wisconsin, started his own construction business at the age of 23 after graduating from college in 2001 with an engineering degree. His business focused primarily on home remodeling work.

Unusual Concrete Compositions – Assymetrical Concrete Designs

Concrete Art Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 15 No. 5 - July 2015 by Gaye Goodman Comments are Disabled

There is a famous paperback called “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White. Many writers treasure it as a guide to writing clearly and succinctly while avoiding common grammatical errors. The handbook itself is a model of clarity.

Concrete Furniture Weighs into the Mix

Concrete Furniture Precast Concrete Vol. 15 No. 5 - July 2015 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

“The house looked a lot like a barn,” says Wells, 36, owner of Wells Concrete Works in Los Osos, California. “The clients kept some of the old architecture and appliances and fixtures inside and out. With the outside kitchen they wanted to be able to come back from the beach and entertain lots of people.”

Concrete Walkway and Columbariums Transform a Catholic Church Garden

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 15 No. 4 - May/June 2015 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

ConScape Inc., a commercial, architectural and decorative concrete firm in Fort Worth, Texas, seemed like a godsend to the parishioners. With decorative concrete as its intervention, the company transformed part of the church’s landscape from a tired terrain into a radiant and peaceful panorama.

Virginia’s Amazing Greystone Masonry Showroom

Outdoor Spaces Featured Contractor Vol. 15 No. 3 - April 2015 by Vanessa Salvia Comments are Disabled

Luisa is the senior sales representative and Dan is president at Greystone Masonry, the company they founded 18 years ago. The Dittmanns have enjoyed a high level of success, doing a lot of work for increasingly sophisticated homeowners and for the many government facilities in their region of the country.

Outdoor Patio Complete With Stained Hummingbird, Flower and Vine Design

Outdoor Spaces Concrete Art Staining & Coloring Concrete Online Exclusives by Concrete Decor Staff Comments are Disabled

Rick Lobdell of Concrete Mystique Engraving in Nashville, Tennessee, is an artist, not a decorative concrete contractor. Still, in his career he has become known as a guy who can take concrete and turn it into an artistic canvas. He did just that for the Perkins home in Franklin, Tennessee.