Hand Carved Vertical Concrete Arches Completed

Classy and Cozy recreation room.

Hand carved stone arches make this room elegant!

Each stone is hand carved and painted individually.

An old barn wood look carved into concrete behind the candle.

The project is a success! Thanks Dawn for including me in on your project. It was a lot of fun working with you and Nathan.

Carving Stone Arches In A Basement

A days work.

Let's get carving!

Tammy's a concrete mixing maniac!

The "Scratch Coat".

My hand carving vertical concrete classmate Dawn and I have been carving stone arches in her basement. Nathan our instructor was invited by Dawn to join us on this project. It's been a lot of fun.

Verticle Concrete Meets Faux Bricks and Decorative Finishing!

Detailed Stone Arch made from vertilce concrete and a mold from the origional stone work on the historic building on Liberty Walk in downtown Libertyville, IL. The Brick is also a cementicious product troweled over a stencil and faux painted.


A closer look!


faux painted brick.

Re-creation of "Liberty Walk" in downtown Libertyville, IL.

Victorian Toy Store, Re-creation of a restaurant called "The Tavern" in Libertyville, IL.

A small door for the little ones.

The brick is a cementicious product troweled on and textured over a stencil, and faux painted. the grout is applied by hand using tinted Versiplast and a cake decorating bag and my index finger.

Re-creation of Caribou Coffee in Libertyville, IL., re-named here "Care-4-U-Coffee" for Adventure Avenue at the Chapel, Libertyville.

This Cementicious product was tinted with a Red concrete tint during mixing. No painting needed, just grout.

Finished Tunnel Project

Adventure Avenue Train and Tunnel.

A closer view of the mountain path.

Tammy and Cheri in front of their concrete sculpting work.

A closer look at where the mountain meets the tunnel.

The Train Engine slide called the "ADVENTURE".

Now we just need to build the train.

The stone mountain path.

Tunnel view from strait on.

Stone Blocking side of Tunnel

Full mountain view.

tunnel project

before project
before painting
after carving
carving in action by Tammy
carving in action by Cheri

Hand Carved Train Tunnel

I'm currently working on a big project for the Chapel in Libertyville, IL hand carving a train tunnel out of concrete for the childrens ministry construction project on the lower level of the church. There will be a steam engine train built into my tunnel for the kids to climb up onto, crawl through the engine and slide down the cow catcher slide. I'm having a blast and I love what I'm doing.

Countertop Finishing

A laminate Bar Countertop re-finished with a faux painted granite finish.

A Concrete Veneer product was applied to MDO board to create this outdoor countertop.