GLC3 Dolphin Mall in Miami — A Backyard Beach

After beginning renovations on a house they had just purchased in a prestigious area of Parkland, Fla., Jeff and Erica Gold were informed that the house had been condemned. The Golds decided to build a new house with an emphasis on decorative concrete, and when they saw an NBC segment featuring George Lacker, owner of GLC3 Concrete in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., they contacted his company about doing the decorative staining.

Around the pool, Lacker experimented with a beach design that he planned to recreate at the Dolphin Mall in Miami. He applied an overlay over the area around the pool and created an ocean blue both in the pool and around it, using SuperStone integral blue color in the overlay and blue SuperStone dyes on the surface. On the rest of the pool deck, he used SuperStone acid stains, tinting and dyes to create a sandy color on the surface. Then he finished with a clear, solvent-based, non-skid acrylic sealer, resulting in a beach away from the beach.

Look for more on GLC3's Dolphin Mall project in an upcoming issue of Concrete Decor!