Thirty Days of Everything 1 - Polished Concrete

I was checking out a friend of mine’s blog and liked what she did with this idea. Thirty Days of Everything involves a 30 day period of  documenting photographically things that you do/see on a regular basis.

My Thirty Days of Everything is going to be a little different. It will be a photographic journal of things in the building/decoration domain that catch my eye.

The Polished Concrete Floor

This is Benetton’s new polished concrete floor in Noumea. Pretty nice I think.

I did try to get some info from the tradesman on how this effect was achieved but suffice to say that his french was a different variety to mine and I put the phone down little the wiser. If you know anything about polished concrete and how this look was achieved please drop me a mail.

Why polished concrete anyway?

Polished concrete is trendy, easy to clean, low maintenance, good for allergy sufferers and open to limitless special effects. It also has thermal mass, meaning that if it is positioned correctly (Northern side in Australia), it will stay cool in the summer when the sun is high in the sky but will warm up in the winter when the sun is lower on the horizon, thus helping to keep the house at an ideal temperature.

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