If you want to be ahead of the design curve and still have one-of-a-kind, artisan-crafted kitchen counters, it's time you learned about decorative concrete countertops - one of the hottest trends in the decorative concrete industry.

Concrete countertops are prized for their uniqueness. They are always custom-built, so they can reflect personal taste in color, pattern, shape, size and finish. Decorative accents, such as glass or copper, seashells, can be embedded. So can fiber optics, which creates optical effects, shimmers or sparkles of light right within the countertop.

Concrete countertops are designed and constructed in two ways. Precast countertops are molded by the contractor molds in a studio. With cast-in-place countertops, the forms are built over the tops of cabinets and the concrete is poured right there.