“It was a great place to learn,” Vicari remembers. Although the work consisted of the “simple basic stuff, it was then I realized that there was a lot more creativity in that field,” he says. From there, he held a short apprenticeship before going out on his own in 1997. By 1998, he was fully licensed as the owner of Custom Concrete Designs. By 2003, he was ready to incorporate and changed the name of the company to The Concrete Colorist. “The name change was so beneficial because it’s much more descriptive of what we do,” Vicari says. “We do no pouring of concrete. We specialize in microtoppings, acid stains and dye washes, as well as laser-cut and hand-cut stencil work.”
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Vicari says he really gets fired up about the possibilities of concrete when he’s sampling and building mockups in his studio. “That’s where the fun stuff happens; that’s where you learn to push.”