Creating with Concrete

Concrete is not just for roads and pavements. It can be used in diverse and different ways to create everything from bookends to a Venetian bench. Here are 24 projects explained and illustrated in step-by-step photographs, graded beginner to advanced.

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Concrete is not just for roads and pavements! Look at concrete in a completely different way as you create everything from bookends to a Venetian bench. It's a diverse material that can be formed, carved and modelled, as well as beautifully enhanced by colour, mosaics and embedded designs. * Concrete Basics * Mixing Concrete * Custom Recipes * Simple Casting * * Construction Techniques * Carving Basics * Surface Treatments * * Concrete Folk Environments * Community Projects * The 24 projects are explained and illustrated in step-by-step photographs, graded beginner to advanced, and include: * Concrete fossils * Masonry planter * Concrete bench * Garden trough * * Birdbath * Decorated stepping-stones * Standing lantern * Frog fountain *