Show and Tell—From Your Table
Kitchen Archive
Rodger Marsh
Rodger Marsh took Beto's class at Evergreen Building Products in Kirkland, Washington. His company is Innovative Designs LLC. The black kitchen is a vibrated finish with additives with 4 coats of black dye. The bathroom shown is a ramp sink, in a bone pressed finish. With his website soon to go online, Rodger is having a great response to his countertops and comes out of years of experience in the decorative concrete world. Contact him at
innovative_designs@netzero.net
Kelly Echols
Spending his time between the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, Kelly Echols squeezed in a BR Workshop in San Francisco this Spring. Here is his first project for clients in Washington state. Amazingly yes, it's his first. But not his last.
Kelly Echols
Blair Sisson
Blair
Sisson,
of
DeSoto,
Mo,
photographed
this kitchen
countertop
and
island
with
integral
sinks
during
installation.
The
island
weighs
almost
one
ton!
Blair
used
bone
color
BR
mix
out
of
the
bag
with
a bright
white
infill.
The
island
has
a radius
edge
with
11" overhang
and
a 36" cantilever
supported by custom fitted stainless steel legs.
Anthony James
Anthony James writes that this is his third countertop using BR Mix. He started this project doing interior wall caps and the customers liked them so much they wanted a matching countertop. This is a 112 Sq. ft. job with an integral farm sink. He also uses the mix and planters for multiple small and medium planters sold in his area. Here is a small one from Anthony James Custom Crete in Pt. Washington WI.
Mark Cheung
A 3” thick cast-in-place countertop with an undermount sink, in BR Smoke with a steel trowel finish.
Blair Sisson
Here's what's on Blair Sisson's table, in Desoto, Missouri. He used 26 bags in the making. This project is 12 square feet of an 83 square foot job: pressed tone-on-tone using bone color with an integral kitchen sink. Wow!
Brad Herrold
Brad Herrold of Appalachian Concrete Designs in Pennsylvania sent us this photo of an integral drain board counter in moss finish, using the vibrated method with BR Mix. The home owner wanted to update the kitchen without major structural changes so the old cabinets were raised and became flush with the window sill. This accounts for the rolled back edge behind the sink—a creative solution to the problem of no room for a backsplash.
Miroslav Horak
First project in process: this is a hard-trowel countertop during installation on site, sent by first-timer Miroslav Horak in California. He used bone color BR Mix, right out of the bag, with no additional color added.
Miroslav’s next project will integrate ramp sinks and he e-mailed Buddy some shots with a few questions. You can ask Buddy your question too at buddy@buddyrhodes.com.
Brad Herrold
Appalachian Concrete Designs
This is a 50" long integral vanity sink using BR concrete and the pressed method with tone on tone Universe color. The side tables are also done the same way. What you can't see in this picture is the other half of the bath which is a huge steam shower with 4 shelves, a bench top and a threshold all to match the vanity.
Jameson R. Anderson
Jameson
R.
Anderson
sent
pictures
of
the
first-time
work
he
did
in
his
own
Utah
house:
3 vanities
and
a kitchen
with
Buddy’s
products.
He
used
the
pressed
technique
with
coal
liquid
color,
wine,
chocolate
and
sand
as
infill
colors.
He
built
his
own
mold
for
the
kitchen
sink
at
26” long
x 15” wide
and
10” deep.
Here
is
his
vanity,
kitchen
island
and
kitchen
sink.
Anderson
writes, “My
wife
is
extremely
happy
with
the
way
everything
turned
out
and
I’m
positive
about
it
as
well…however
I am
a perfectionist
and
want
to
make
sure
that
my
future
projects
turn
out
even
better.” We
think
Anderson
should
be
as
happy
as
his
wife
with
his
work!
Rodger Marsh
Rodger Marsh took Beto's class at Evergreen Building Products in Kirkland, Washington. His company is Innovative Designs LLC. The black kitchen is a vibrated finish with additives with 4 coats of black dye. The bathroom shown is a ramp sink, in a bone pressed finish. With his website soon to go online, Rodger is having a great response to his countertops and comes out of years of experience in the decorative concrete world. Contact him at
innovative_designs@netzero.net
Gerry and Nick—It's Concrete
Here's a recently completed kitchen remodel with BR pressed finish in Universe with universe infill.
Gerry and Nick—It's Concrete
This is Nick's response to Buddy's query, "What’s on your Table?"
Nick's Moss pressed sink with Moss infill is a sneak preview of a bathroom vanity he's working on.
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Stephen Pasco
Stephen Pasco took a Buddy Rhodes 2 day, concrete countertop class about 2 years ago in Murrieta, CA just to learn more about the process. After making these pieces for his own home, his friends and family all want counter tops,furniture and outdoor kitchens now. He says he may soon have to quit his day job as a software engineer at Disney to keep up with the demand! We think his work looks like the pros.
Matt and Josh Kilgore
Matt and Josh Kilgore of Concrete Illusions in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the January 08 Buddy Rhodes Workshop in San Francisco. They sent us this photo of their first project since attending the class. It shows part of a pressed finish table in universe color with universe infill. The ground center piece is smoke concrete, ground to expose aggregate, and imbedded with stainless steel tiles.