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What's the diff between Stamped concrete and poured concrete? There are several houses on Stearns Place (that's the street name) in Hawthorne Village that have stamped concrete on their patios/front porches/driveways. They look really great in my opinion.

We did the walkway and french curbs in poured white concrete, and we love it. Our next door neighbor poured a patio in the back as well, and he loves it (also white). He built a lumber... hmmm, it's not really walls, it's like a framework of posts with just a few pieces of lattice here and there that he's growing grapes and flowering vines up, looks fantastic. We're going to copy his patio at the next house and use the same guy (who was fantastic, his whole crew). I don't have his card here at work but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him in a heartbeat.

That said, down the street a bit a neighbor did the same thing with colored patterned concrete and it looks fabulous too, and she was extremely happy with the people who did it, and their website shows some really impressive stuff (although of course colored two/toned is way more expensive than plain white). I think it was www.patternedconcrete.ca or .com or something like that, they're in Mississauga, and again, she recommends them highly.

Personally, I like concrete much better than interlock, but that's because I like low maintenance - no weeds growing in the cracks with concrete.

Rick - I'm not an expert, but basically stamped concrete is still poured, it's just that an extra step of actually stamping down a pattern on it is done. It's just a big mould... and usually if you're going to stamp it, you're going to color it too, not just have it white. I've seen all kinds of stamps... leaf patterns, fake stone, some of them are amazing.

We're thinking of doing the stamped concrete in the future. When we walk through "Stearns Place" street in hawthorne village we noticed there's a company name/logo inconspicously placed in the concrete near the front of each driveway. We were thinking of contacting that company first, because we really liked how their finished jobs look. I can't remember the company name by memory, but if you walk down that street you'd see it on several homes, all done by the same company.