You can Coat of arms a concrete floor, patio, porch, driveway or garden course with patterns and prints. Concrete stamping has pass into a Art, oftentimes done by trained professionals, on the other hand it's as well likely to arrange concrete stamping yourself provided you annex the hold up Accoutrement. Construe on for some ideas for your concrete stamping project.
Plank Floors
Wide-plank wood floors are cute, and in style. On the other hand you can entertain a realistic looking wide-plank floor with stamped concrete and a wood=coloured stain. Concrete stamps are trumped-up of polyurethane, and created from the materials they're designed to emulate.Provided you ardency the rustic gun of stone and masonry, practise it with concrete stamps. You can constitute a concrete way to your house with cobblestone stamps, finished with a rustic brick stain. For an entryway, choose a slate Coat of arms, stained in a coldish grey and finished with a sunny polyurethane for light cleaning and shine.
Broad plank floor stamps study prize valid pine, seeing evident pine was used. You can actualize this extended hardwood floor gaze for still less, with concrete stamps.
Cobble Stone, Brick and Slate
Create the look of brick for a basement floor or terra cotta tiles for a kitchen. For a garden path, try groupings of basket weave-patterned bricks, or the variegated look of coquitlam fieldstone.Tile Borders and Contrasts
Put borders around a kitchen floor or put a line of brick stamps down the center of your entryway floor in a different alignment from the surrounding bricks, and stained in a contrasting color. Stain the border stamps in ways that resemble artisan ceramic tiles, by choosing colors that contrast with the stain of the concrete brick, cobblestone tile, or whichever pattern you've selected.
Mosaic
Create a floor mosaic with concrete stamps. Choose a circular pattern and stain each row a different color, or choose square tiles and stain them in three different colors in random arrangements.
Shells, Fossils and Wood
Natural objects can also be used in concrete. A concrete bathroom floor can be stamped with real sea shells to create a fossil appearance. Press a small branch with leaves into your wet patio concrete to leave behind a permanent impression. Decorative concrete companies create fossil stamps for this purpose. Choose from their selection of prehistoric pterodactyls, fish and procolophon fossil stamps, among many others for your garden path, patio or concrete pavers.
