Cozy with Concrete

Should I Use an Additional Primer with My Seamless Floor?   Have you ever tried to paint a red wall the color white? If so, I hope you used a primer. If not, you probably started out with some standard paint and quickly realized that regular paint doesn’t cover that well. So you either dealt […]

How to Choose Between Epoxy and Polyurea Seamless Flooring   When choosing to use a seamless flooring system in your mudroom, garage, or maybe your industrial facility you are going to hear the word ‘epoxy’ a lot. There are a plethora of options when choosing the type or brand of epoxy, but in simplest terms, […]

I have been around the decorative concrete industry for quite a while and have seen all the ways to color an existing concrete surface. It seems that most manufactures and installers are always looking for the quickest and cheapest way to color a floor. Constantly new products are brought to the market claiming to “mimic” […]

A Mid-Century Modern Home in Southwest Fort Wayne Last week we completed a residential concrete polishing project in a mid-century modern home located in a woods on the southwest side of Fort Wayne. This concrete floor was original to the home as raw building products, such as metal and concrete, are staples in mid-century architecture. […]

4 BASIC STEPS FOR SUCCESSFUL CONCRETE STAINING This morning stopped by a local thrift store to check out the furniture and to see if I could find any nice antique pieces.  As I walked through the donated furniture section I noticed how age really showed the difference in the quality of the furniture items in […]

A LOOK DEEPER INTO POLISHED CONCRETE FLOORING When choosing to polish concrete there are many options to make sure the floor looks and performs to your standards. Some of these options include deciding on the final polishing grit or shine of the floor, or choosing what color will look just right in the space. One […]

WHOOO DID THIS AMAZING POLISHED CONCRETE FLOOR? I happen to be a morning person, a very early morning person.  I have a pretty consistent morning routine that includes a 4:30 wake-up call followed by drinking coffee, reading, working out, sorting through emails, checking Facebook, and then heading off to work.  In my line of business […]

This weekend my wife and I celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary. Saturday night was supposed to be our romantic night away, a night to let work go and spend some quality time with each other. As we were walking through Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center I remembered I had presented a proposal for the flooring […]

Gone are the days of dirt floors and wooden structures for barns. Today’s farmers are upgrading into climate controlled pole barns that make it much more efficient and ergonomic to maintain equipment and store all their tools. Farmer’s also understand that a little bit of extra investment in their concrete floors in the beginning will […]

Great designers and artist have a way at looking at older buildings differently.  It is almost a magically ability to see potential, to see beyond the current state of a building and imagine what could be. They are gifted in creating, changing, and impacting the world with their ideas and dreams.  This was just the […]