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Article: Creative concrete: popularity, technology and imagination have helped bring decorative concrete into the mainstream.(Cover Story)
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- Concrete Concepts
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- April 1, 2005
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It seems like everywhere you look, you see decorative concrete--churches, restaurants, hotels, zoos, people's homes.
And a lot of times you might find it difficult to believe that what you're looking at started out with the same basic ingredients as the everyday gray slabs of concrete we have grown accustomed to seeing. No one has to settle for gray anymore, and decorative concrete has turned out to be a material in which human imagination is its only limit.
Mike Verlennich, who owns and operates Verlennich Masonry and Concrete with his brother Dave in Staples, Minn., says decorative concrete has finally reached the mainstream as an accepted ...