Is it time to chillax?
Anyone with a swimming pool or a lake nearby knows what it’s like to float around on top of one for a while. And those of you who live near river rapids know what its like to get a big inflatable and go down on it (I wouldn’t recommend this for that, though, because you can’t see out of it that easily).
So how about this summer pool or lake toy?
Actually, I’m starting to wonder about towing it slowly around a lake behind a boat. How many people could you fit on one of these things?
Fantastic Prefab House
The modern interior and exterior of this home is so beautiful it lets you know that prefab houses today easily compete with your standard construction home. As a matter of fact prefab designs and durability have out-shined other homes with their dynamic floor plans and innovative styles. For example, this lovely home has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, however, the design is flexible and can be altered before the house is built. I think that is a part of the new draw towards the buying of prefab homes, it’s flexibility.
The two bedroom-two bathroom combo is very difficult to find in most areas. All too often, the bedrooms always outnumber the bathrooms. A home like this is perfect as a starter house or for couples, maybe with one child, or as a bachelor and bachlorette home. There is also a terrace that is great for relaxing or entertaining friends and family.
2 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms
Prefabricated Building 115: 18 750.- € + VAT
Transport in Italy: 3 500.- € + VAT
Installation in Italy: 5 500.- € + VAT
Total costs: 27 750.- € + VAT
Price includes:
insulated exterior walls
Interior walls
Building roof structure
Windows and doors of the terrace
Features:
Bathroom
Bungalow
1 storey house
open kitchen
Wooden facade
Carport
pitched roof
Stamped Concrete - You Can Make the Most Impressive Concrete Floors with This
Have you ever heard of “Stamped Concrete?
Stamped concrete is a method of applying an interesting pattern and texture to your concrete paved surfaces, like your walk or garden seating area, for example. A lot of people pour concrete in their back yard or garden area, and this is one way of making that concrete more aesthetic or stylish. You can get a wide range of colors, textures, and pattern shapes, so that it looks like nutmeg-brown square rocky tiles, or light blue multi-sided polygonal tiles, or whatever else.
How it’s done: the most important thing is that this is just concrete, but you use a pad or mat, which often looks like the shape of the floor mat of a car, which has the embossed shapes of “tiles.” Those are placed face down on the recently-poured concrete and stamped down with something heavy, which creates creases in the surface of the concrete.
For color, they often add colored clay powder or other colored material before applying the stamped pad. You can dye the surface of the concrete or a powder any color.
For texture, you can apply rocks to the surface or anything else, which, when it makes impressions in the concrete, will create a texture on the surface.
Taken together, these three elements form the basic parts of “stamped concrete” projects.
You can get a stamped concrete job done by local builders, for sure, but you can also do it DIY style. These people in tropical Thailand did outside their house where their parking lot area had gotten a bit worn-out looking.
The steps:
- pour the concrete into the boxed off area
- Let it dry a bit (the right amount)
- apply the colored powder
- pound the color in until the right coloration is achieved
- apply another color if you want a multi-colored appearance
- apply the mats that have the surface pattern (usually, this isn’t done with so many mats they cover the whole concrete slab at one time, but instead they work from one corner across, stamp them, then move the pads)
- go over the grooves of the pattern with a finishing wheel if you like
- finish the pattern by creating grooves to the edges of the slab (with a finishing wheel or other tool)
Let it dry and that’s about it for basics.
Check out the gallery of photos below.
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