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back in your pocket down the road,”
Winkler says.
Winkler, along with Farley and
two others, fi nished the 2,600-squarefoot
home in the summer of 2006. Not
only is it an example of fi ne concrete
building techniques, but it also
highlights 67 linear feet of decorative
concrete countertops and various
staining techniques on the fl oors. They
even built a concrete dining-room table
and a concrete tree, complete with cup
holders, for the hot tub. They used
just under 250 yards of concrete in the
home, sidewalks and driveway.
“My neighbors are farmers, and they
think I’m the craziest son-of-a-gun this
side of a turnip,” Winkler says.
Maybe so, but his efforts earned
him two Excellence in Concrete Awards
from the Washington Aggregates &
Concrete Association: fi rst place in the
residential decorative concrete category
and second place in residential ICF
construction.
Farley, who is now Winkler’s
housemate, says some of his favorite
features are the Celtic knot design on
the dining room fl oor, which involved a
lot of hand work, and the checkerboard
pattern on the kitchen fl oor, which
involved math and precision. “I enjoyed
creating both extreme ends — artistic
and mechanical. You have so many
choices with stained concrete fl oors,
imagination is your only limit. They
are super-tough, and the heated fl oors
feel so good on your feet. Cleaning
and waxing takes about 45 minutes
throughout the whole house, so us men
have no excuse not to keep the fl oors
clean anymore.”
The countertops are varied in color
and design. In the master bathroom,
the edge features exposed shells. In the
kitchen, one section of countertop so
closely resembles a rough-sawn log that
it fooled a logger who lives nearby. He
actually crawled underneath it to prove
to himself that it was really concrete.
Winkler credits Ken Heitzmann of
Decorative Concrete Systems, based in
Milton-Freewater, Ore., with providing
excellent training and advice over the
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