By Brooke Chaplan
Homeowners have an attractive range of natural building materials they can choose from to enhance their houses. Stamped concrete not only adds creative designs and aesthetic appeal to a home, but it can also increase a home's value because of its durability and curb appeal. You may want to install stamped concrete to update your home in one or more of these exciting ways:
Flooring
Most people love the look of natural materials like brick, slate and stone. However, covering your indoor floors with these products can be costly and time consuming. Some may not stand up well to long-term use. Stamped concrete, on the other hand, is solid and stable. It can be etched and stamped in a variety of designs that look beautiful on any floor in a home. A polyurethane seamless slate design is one of many that adds a classy dimension to rooms that are used to entertain guests.
Entrances
Stamped concrete makes a unique and appealing addition to your foyer floor or walls. Vertical stack stone comes in many styles and colors that greet guests with elegance. Equally important is the fact that concrete will endure over time as countless pairs of shoes tread over them. Cheaper than wood or other popular floor materials, stamped concrete can be purchased with a design already in place or you can select one to be imprinted.
Patios
Outdoor patios are perfect for adding stamped concrete designs in a choice of colors, a natural stain or plain concrete. You can choose from numerous shapes and sizes to get the right design for your home's outdoor areas. Decorative accents are typically available in sets of eight or more pieces. Vertical stone decorated concrete creates a cozy wall finish for a patio or an enclosed all-season room to expand usable living space either indoors or outside.
Sidewalks and Driveways
Enhance the curb appeal of your home by installing a stamped concrete driveway on your property in a design that meshes with your landscape. Hire concrete contractors to lay a stamped concrete walkway or sidewalk pavement to dress up your home's exterior. A glance at these areas will show visitors that you care about your home's appearance and value.
Don't underestimate the value that stamped concrete can add to your home. Think about these and other ways you could add style and durability to some of the most frequently-used areas of your house!
Brooke Chaplan is a freelance writer and blogger. She lives and works out of her home in Los Lunas, N.M. She recommends looking into concrete contractors near you. For more information, contact Brooke via Facebook at facebook.com/brooke.chaplan or Twitter @BrookeChaplan
We just redid our driveway with stamped concrete and absolutely love the look and feel of it!
Love me some stamped concrete. Totally transformed our home’s curb appeal
I’m working on getting more stamped concrete into my repertoire. I just love the look of it
Wow. I appreciate the content you share here. Your post gave me some perspective insight, especially for the driveway! We’ll make sure to keep this in mind if we decide to hire a contractor to pave our driveway. I just share this information with my husband and told him that we could renovate our concrete driveway and patio since they need a new look. Thanks for sharing! Thumbs up!
Stamped concrete is generally more durable and requires less maintenance than most other paving materials, which can add up to big savings over time.
Like conventional concrete, stamped surfaces will last for decades when properly installed and maintained, even when exposed to harsh winter weather conditions. In some cases, stamped concrete can be even more durable than standard concrete, especially if a color hardener was used when it was poured.
Thank you. It’s great to help since we’re looking to boost our curb appeal and also improve our beautiful patio with stamped concrete cape cod. It really is cheaper and beautiful than another type since we have tried a contractor near cape cod town for 6 months ago. We are currently looking for lots of color options for our patio and considering adding a brick trim pattern for it, I appreciate your post. Keep posting!
Thanks for sharing this info.
Our customers love the versatility and longevity of stamped concrete, Being able to offer a pattern and colour that fits with the architectural design of the home, whilst sitting seamlessly into the surrounding landscape means we always have a product that meets the client’s vision.
They always look so good once completed, happy clients.
Great! It’s interesting to know that installing a stamped concrete driveway could enhance the curb appeal of our home. Last month, a tree falling from neighbour, it has cause damage to our driveway but not our cars, get coverage for this issue and we consider to change into a stamped concrete driveway. Thanks for the share.
We’ve been in the concrete construction business for a long long time in Nashville, and in the past year I have recently seen people from other areas of the country moving to Nashville. Homeowners looking to sell their houses have been looking for ways to improve the designs of their homes in more universal ways, and I’ve been using this article to explain the “art of the possible” to homeowners so many times. The most common choices they make are stamped concrete patios for entertaining, and very brick-like patterns for their driveways.
It makes houses pop, and our team is so proud that we’ve been able to add so much extra property value to homeowners with simple ideas like the ones you’ve described here. Super helpful content, Brooke – hope to see more of it!
Some very common ideas that I talk about in addition to these are concrete countetops stained with epoxy to make them look like marble, polished indoor concrete floors, and stamped concrete designs for fireplaces and barbeques!
Would love to show pictures to you of the results of your blog someday! Thank you
What process are you using for coloring stamped concrete? I’m starting into it and looking for any tips I can find. Thanks
I just read somewhere that the average stamped concrete patio can increase a home’s value by $16k. Now I gotta remember where I saw that, but I thought it was an interesting figure… Because $16k is way more than the cost of the average stamped concrete pad, at least here in Harrisonburg. Meaning you make out net positive on the cost…!
Great article, It helped us a lot to learn that kind of work, so I appreciate your good information.
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I really appreciate the article you share here! We’ll make sure to keep this in mind if we decide to hire a contractor to renovate our entrance. I just share this information with my wife and told him that we could renovate our entrance since they need a new look. Thank you for sharing!
Very informative post! I appreciate your advice to research the potential cost. My husband and I would like to get a driveway for our property. We’ll start looking for a concrete contractor that is experienced.
Great post! I appreciate the content you share here! Your post gave me some perspective insight, especially for the driveway! We’ll make sure to keep this in mind if we decide to hire a contractor to pave our driveway. Thanks for all!