Originally I was thinking that I would resurface the ~400sq.ft concrete patio with stamped concrete to look like bluestone. I had someone come out to give me a bid, but it came out to $5,000. If this was a permanent solution, I might be more open to that, but since that’s not the case, I wanted to find a more cost-effective solution.
We looked at several options including:
- Restore 10X concrete coating (or the Lowe’s version)
- Patching and staining
But then my parents were in Eastern WA over the weekend and stopped in at the Mazama Store, and saw this in their back patio area:

I love the look of this! So… I think this is going to be the new plan. We actually had rented a concrete grinder for the day to start the patching process, but didn’t use it since now we need to actually rent a jackhammer to widen some of the existing cracks and create new ones. We’ll see how this turns out!
-H
