I have blogged about our little 1950’s Bungalow in the Ft Lauderdale zone of South Florida. The lone we were disappearing to flip simply I just fell in love with. Got through the Terrazzo being discovered and restored. Loved it! Told you about my search for the to the lowest degree costly marble that I could uncover for my depleted cost latest kitchen. Marble Floor Restoration approached to my rescue with that besides.

I final said “now on to the Lanai!” Just a fancy phrase for patio it seems, simply I love the phrase and how it rolls off your tongue! So tropical a phrase Lanai! Sad matter is it was painted and cracked Concrete with a totally abundant of cracking and chipping disappearing on. Nothing I wasn’t fortunate to have anything sweet away there, and with this little Bungalow, an away room access room is so needed, specially for the sidereal days like now, where I am riding away and doing this blog…on my Lanai!

So off I go searching on Google ( the best matter since healthy, browsers I think) to uncover away what we could do about this and what a Lanai should search like? Which as I uncover away just process Roofed patio or a city in Hawaii, simply I yet love the discussion! Nice breeze with a roof finished my head and cracked concrete, painted this hideous colour! What to do?

After looking at many pictures of different designs utilizing different flooring material. It approached to me. The roof is in fine condition, the poles are a piece ugly, nevertheless my husband could alter that easily and Colonial moreover causes concrete work. After searching the web, I found a picture of the what I would love MY Lanai to search like this (without the pool in the environment unhappily to state) .

Observe the concrete floor, the colour and texture? Well I did, correct away so I identified my friend at Colonial (yes we have approach to understand everyone new fit) and dispatch him this picture, and he said,” yea we probably could do that to your concrete”. He approached correct finished the succeeding calendar day to discuss it.

Again I was in amazement that this could be ended to old concrete. I recognized newly poured concrete could be colored and stamped, simply never opinion that it could be colored and created after so many years and in such unpleasant condition! Now do not forget this is cracked and chipped ugly, paint to arrive off it, weeds growing away of the crack concrete I have. But! It has a fine roof finished it. So much could be created from this, and now with the route decorative concrete is ended. I could go with what this expression like this picture, the Loft see, some imperfections, simply beautified by fill in the cracks and chips, grinding it depressed to what is identified the “freshest layer” and then possessing a “acid stain” set on it in the colour of my picking out. I am told this stain will react to my own old concrete’s distinctive composition and the acid stain (water based also..got to consider of the Eco component here.) reacts chemically to provide it that varigated search of this picture. A densifier could be gave to strengthen the old concrete! I required plain and good and shine. Transition from indoors to away doors.

I taken all possibilities to my husband for a conclusion to be made. After significant time ( about 10 minutes). He said as constantly ” lets do what eternally you consider is best” as he conceeded that the roof was in fine condition and wherefore split up up concrete that could be salvaged.

So I am achieving my rustic, acid stain, polished concrete ended shortly. And after the concrete is ended. The planning will begin, and in a hardly a short weeks I will finally have my Lanai. Oh I yet love that discussion!