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.