Buddy Rhodes Artisan Concrete

<back to Buddy Rhodes show and tell achives: kitchens \| baths \| fireplaces and outdoors \| furniture and planters Show and Tell—From Your Table We have opened this page for the purpose of giving you an opportunity to share photographs of your recent favorite work with visitors to Buddy Rhodes.com. We are always interested in seeing projects from people who use Buddy's Concrete Countertop Mix, mixed in well with the artisan's own creativity. You may have used Buddy's methods, as taught in classes or viewed in DVDs or books, or perhaps you use your own methods—combinations of techniques or totally new ones. That's fine. Pressed, of course. Ground or Trowelled—great. Poured and vibrated—you bet! Send your digital images to sharepage@buddyrhodes.com. We may choose one or two or all of your projects to put up on the site. Add your name, your company, your website and your location. Tell us what products you used and anything else you want viewers to know about your project. For starters, here you'll see some wonderful photos of projects sent to us in the last year. Let's inspire each other!
	Chuck Anderson A multi counter designed kitchen. Buddy Rhodes smoke color.
	Sean Albright Sean just finished this one, it's a beautiful kitchen.
	Blair Sisson This is one I recently did using Buddy Rhodes mix and Brandon Gore's red rock sink mould with slot drain.
	Nathan Winklebleck Palmetto Concrete and Coating Services Vanity made with Buddy Rhodes Mix.
	Jon Waalkies Jon sent us these lovely projects to share with you. Bathroom countertops - Bone on Bone pressed Kitchen countertops and backsplashes - Bone on Bone pressed. Window sills - Bone on Bone Pressed. Fireplace mantle and hearth - Universe cast in place hard trowel finish.
	Ben McWilliams We enjoyed seeing this innovation outdoor cabinet, Buddy thinks you will too.
	Anthony James of AJ-Customcrete This 97 sqft project is made using BR Pressed, method with a Wheat Base, and Wheat/Chocolate/Coal infill then acid stained with Black. The large piece in the background is 9 ft 7 inches long by 30 inches across with attached backsplash. Reveal is a chisled granite. This is an impressive project.
	Fred Horak of Ridgewood, NJ Created beautiful concrete countertops for his kitchen. This design is pressed in chocolate, tone on tone.
	Courtenay Whitehouse of Artisticrete Inc Another creation from Courtney using Buddy Rhodes signature veined finish.
	Courtenay Whitehouse of Artisticrete Inc Courtney sent in this Fireplace surround for us to share with you.
	Joe Jackson a builder in Long Branch, NJ, made this double sink, he likes to make his own molds.
	Arrot Donaldson Concrete Countertop Creations Bone counter and integral sink, styled with colored glass inlays with a 4" front oval extension and a barrel sink.
	John Beer of Stone Bowl Design Studio,shared his garden benches.
	What a great color combination! John Beer of Stone Bowl Design Studio, made this furniture using Buddy Rhodes Drum Table and Stool Molds.
	This is a project from BR Qualified Artisan Paul Morabito. The planter is chocolate tone on tone, then stained with raftco walnut.
	From Artist TJ Aitken, "I have a beautiful portrait bust cast in your material from a latex mold. It worked great"
	This is a sink I created the pressed technique using Sand and a Coffee colored infill. I used a Buddy Rhodes sink mold.
	For the same client, the kitchen island was created using the pressed technique, the color is tone on tone Coal. The 3" returned edges were done with a custom Ogee edge.
	Jeff Peterson & Wendy Schaake A beautiful outdoor project from Jeff Peterson & Wendy Schaake of Grass Valley, CA. "Here is our¬†third project with the Buddy Rhodes mix. This is a pressed method with moss green color¬†and two shades of moss green slurry we mixed ourselves. We poured these tops in my shop and moved them to the job site. There¬†is an integral sink in the lower top, and a integral beverage trough with a removable grill¬†over the upper¬†top so it can still be used when there are no beverages. The size and weight of the lower counter was so great, we've decided to not do another top of this size. We had a great time, and look forward to the next project!"
	Jeff Peterson & Wendy Schaake
	Jeff Peterson & Wendy Schaake
	William Severance Here are a few pictures of a recently installed Concrete Counter Top using BR products designed and created by William Severance. "We attended a local home show in the spring and had displayed a small counter top with the same color combination and these clients just fell in love with it, and we had numerous questions and comments as if the top was soapstone. Even granite fabricators thought it was soapstone. This is a pressed finished top in coal with ash & smoke infill and a integrated drain board. " William Severance, www.kitchenandbathdesignstore.com
	William Severance
	Nick Relampagos Here are some pictures of a hard trowelled project Buddy Rhodes Qualified Artisan Nick Relampagos. He had originally fabricated a moss colored sink for the same client and they loved it. They asked what could be done for the top of their staircase. It's a 5 foot circle, 1 1/2" thick with a 1 1/2" drop to create a 3" face, it's on top of a cylinder that centers the staircase. This project was originally done in ash hard trowelled but the finish didn't turn out as dark as the client wanted. ¬†So it was the pasted in Coal. Big thanks to Buddy and Beto for teaching me the pasting technique. Beautiful Nick!
	Nick Relampagos
	Nick Relampagos
	David Dzubay "Here is my first Buddy Rhodes concrete project. Slate color, with pea gravel, ground surface, slurried/smoth top, 4" dropped edges ground but not filled." David Dzubay, Bloomington, IN
	Justin Brown After completeing the Buddy Rhodes Comprehensive training in September 2008, Justin Brown from 2 Stone designer Concrete created this beautiful 3 sided fireplace. He used Buddy Rhodes universe base with bone infill, pressed with aggressive grind, an ammonite inlay and a 2Stone Designer Concrete signature inlay on apron. Justin also did the tiling using 3" x 6" tiling. Canada is lucky to have this talented artist in the Calegary area.
	Justin Brown
	Nick and Shelly Guantone This is Nick and Shelly Guantone’s home kitchen built by them with Buddy Rhodes Mix and methods a handful of years ago. Nick recently wrote, “Our experience with these counters has been nothing but positive. All friends, family and ...strangers for that matter ...that have come into our home have seen, felt, and admired our work ,given us many positive and very pleasing comments and many times the complements are way over the top. “ We can certainly see why they get the accolades.
	Jerry of Corvid Supply Jerry of Corvid Supply send us images of his innovative concrete /fiqured Sycamore bed project. It has blue led lights around the base so you don't bang your knee in the dark.
	Jon Waalkes Harbor Industries Inc. " This was done to try out two color combinations so I needed to use about 8 square feet of Universe and 4 square feet of Bone. I decided to practice taller returns to learn for my countertops and came up with the design for a bench (48x18x18) that will end up in our courtyard when our remodel is complete. I am happy with the results and I'm glad I made test pieces as I learned a lot in doing so. The whole process was amazingly simple and I'll be starting on the bathroom counters in the next few days in the Bone on Bone along with a small window sill piece to match as our home currently has marble sills (1960 brick ranch). "
	Nick Relampagos Nick Relampagos showcased his "Igami Sink" in the BR booth at the CCI Conference in Sacramento. "I wanted to design a sink that used the pour and vibrate method, had clean and simple lines, was functional and above all, it had to be a design that was different from other integral sinks." The piece is in 3 pieces: a base with a hidden drain, a curved bowl that recesses into the base, and a backsplash that houses the wall-mount faucet. The color of the base and back splash is chocolate with additional black pigment and a Universe bowl. BR student Hannah Whitehouse helped with the fabrication.
	Nick Relampagos Project Name: Berkeley Bath This is a BR vibrated finish in Universe color. The side wall and bench were cast at the same time. The sink slopes to the left and drains under a teak tray that I made.
	Mark Cheung Mark Cheung of www.Artezens.com designed and pre-cast this “Landscape” custom bathroom vanity with an integral BR oval sink mold. He fabricated the 2” metal base with a ferris oxide patina, and added an Artezens signature plasma cut metal backsplash.
	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!
	Mark Hordyk Mark Hordyk from Mission Viejo CA is new to concrete countertop fabrication, although he and his his family are in the masonry business. After meeting us at the World of Concrete ‘08, he bought Buddy’s DVDs and books and this is his first project! The vanity top is in his own home, pressed with bone (no color added) and bone infill. He’s now on his way to becoming a Buddy Rhodes Artisan.
	Redwood Concrete Studio team
	Redwood Concrete Studio team
	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.
	Michele Rundgren BR student Michele Rundgren, a veteran of Buddy’s comprehensive and advanced workshops, designed and fabricated this tub with with Buddy and Joshua’s assistance. It was crated up and sent to Michelle and Todd Rundgren's new home in Kuaui, which they designed and recently completed. We hope to have on-site pictures of it, overlooking the Pacific, very soon. Note that the outside of the tub shows the pressed finish, and the inside (the “top” of the casting) was smoothed to a fine ground and polished finish. Copies of this fiberglass mold are available for sale among the Buddy Rhodes Mold Line options.
	Chris Vogel Chris Vogel, owner and operator of Vogel Construction Ltd. in Regina, Saskatchewan, took Buddy's workshop on the weekend of March 19, 2005. He reports that his local market is now showing much more interest in artisan concrete so his company will now be producing decorative concrete using Buddy's products and techniques. Here is a dining room table and lounge table that he made in the summer of '05. The table was done with universe as the base and coal for the press color. The inside of the table legs was smooth trowel finish.
	Chris Vogel

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