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Concrete Connexion completed about 40 feet of precast countertops throughout a residential home. Jarman chose a subtle countertop look for a quiet balance with the clients rich-grained cabinet woodwork. The island and countertops are 2 inches thick with a 6 degree bevel on all the cantilevered leading edges.

Diamond D Concrete produced five concrete pieces for an outdoor kitchen. The project included an elevated poured-in-place horseshoe bar with a lower sink section.

Nearby is a small counter near the grill with a concrete couch just beyond.

Diamond D Concrete produced this limestone-look precast counter for a small office kitchen.

A challenging element on this traditional kitchen countertop by Concrete Connexion was the homeowner did not want to change her existing cabinets, so Chris Jarman reinforced them with plywood panels. "In between each cabinet we dropped a vertical plywood panel so the vertical grain of the plywood panels would add support," he explains. "We also put a 3/4-inch layer of plywood panel on top of each cabinet to pull them all together to distribute the weight so that not any one plywood panel would take too much weight."

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Another recent project from Pettigrew is a rustic, stone-looking, small precast countertop for a kitchen in an architect's office. It has a mottled, natural stone appearance characteristic of sedimentary rock. Pettigrew used a special technique to achieve this look. After building the mold, he splattered it in an irregular pattern with a baking soda paste. Then he added a cement mix, which included natural limestone in place of the rock and sand. On top of that he hand-packed the concrete. Pettigrew says he often uses this travertine effect on precast columns and fireplace surrounds.

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