Concrete Decor in Spanish & a modern grocery experience

Dear Readers,

Se habla espanol? If so, Concrete Decor encourages you to visit our new Spanish-language Web site, decoreconconcreto.com, which we launched Jan. 1, 2007.

Each new issue of Concrete Decor is now being translated, in its entirety, into Spanish and posted on this Web site for the growing number of Latin American contractors who are recognizing the valuable benefits that decorative concrete adds to their business.

Needless to say, this is an exciting step for Concrete Decor. This valuable new tool shares important information with other cultures and promotes the numerous benefits that both new and existing concrete offer to builders and their customers.

The other day I visited a new natural and gourmet foods supermarket here in Eugene, Ore. Heading toward their deli section for lunch I was amazed at the concrete below me. This floor had it all. It included alternating integral colors. It had been seeded with recycled glass and aggregate. It was stained, it was polished and it looked fabulous. A similar treatment was even added to the concrete stairs leading to a second-floor eatery that overlooked the store’s glamorous decor below.

Enjoying lunch upstairs with my wife and our youngest son, Kannen, I had this incredible vantage point from which to reflect, literally, on the exciting new ways concrete is being used in today’s building environments. Considering the look of concrete floors in a grocery store 30 years ago, I was challenged to imagine what concrete might look like 30 years from now.

With so many noticeable benefits that concrete now offers, both structurally and aesthetically, it’s increasingly important to note how critical education and training are to ensuring a project’s success, a company’s growth, and a reputation that concrete is gaining as one of the worlds most preferred building products.

To this end, the more we share our knowledge with one another, the more opportunities we have to influence the world around us and the way concrete will look 30 years from today.

Enjoy another great issue of Concrete Decor. Made possible by you!

Sincerely,




Bent Mikkelsen
Publisher