Make Your Home Look Like a Million Bucks
Posted: Friday, July 14, 2006
by Rob Tendick
Set your upscale home apart. Designer concrete spells quality, comfort, and can vastly enhance your homes luxurious look and curb appeal.
Concrete has been around since Hector was a pup, but stamped concrete is a newer design concept which began back east in the 50’s. It is finally coming into its own as an upscale designer treatment with the invention of more technically correct stamping tools which make it hard to determine if an item is really paved with slate, for example, or stamped with a concrete pattern.
Stamped patterns can look like slate paving stones elaborate brickwork, natural stone work, even an English cobblestone street. Unlike its unrealistic predecessor, that looked more like cookie cutter shapes, new stamped concrete creates realistic designs in your luxury homescape. The new polyurethane stamps are molded to mimic natural, organic shapes and designs.
If you think decorative concrete is just for driveways, patios, and swimming pools you are wrong. The products and designs are used inside luxury, quality homes on counter tops, floors, basins and frameworks around fireplaces and windows as well as a host of other architectural accent uses.
Maybe you want your living room floor to look like a Persian Rug. It can be accomplished with architectural concrete products. Any custom design your mind can conjure from medallions, tiles, borders, and corners can be attained with the use of concrete.
Epoxy coating on your concrete surface enables you to place any kind of design in your home. Epoxy can be a perfect sealer for your shower walls, seal the pool deck, or even add glitter to the epoxy of a piece of art displayed in designer concrete in your kitchen.
Through the process of concrete overlays and toppings, there is no limitation on the look you can achieve. Floors can be ultra smooth or have that rough hewn feel of chiseled stone. Color and texture are no longer problems in any décor.
One proviso in the details of enhancing your luxury home with designer concrete is, of course, to get a qualified, as well as referred, concrete contractor. Use your network of friends to get referrals or ask the contractor for his own referral list including photos of his work. You can also ask an experienced Realtor for any contacts they may have particularly ones that specialize in the luxury home segment.
You don’t want your home to be just another expensive piece of property you want it to have the luxurious look and feel of expensive marble, slate, or onyx. You don’t want just ordinary, you want your home and property to say, “Now this is quality."
Designer concrete can put a special touch of class on your home. Friends, relatives, and prospective home buyers will immediately notice an extra sign of luxury when they notice stamped concrete on the front patio, back landscape, or in any or your inside rooms.
Danielle Stone is the luxury real estate marketing director for El Dorado Hills real estate where you can find local school information, full access to the
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