working on my own house while living in it with my patient wife

red

red tubes 

are pex for undefloor radiant heat

slate on fireplace - ART

If you found this page

You may be looking for a concrete artist, and that is what I am.
For more pictures, references, and a proposal on your kitchen, bath, or yard/garden project, please call or write brilheaint AT yahoo DOT com
Leaving a comment here will help too.

I have made Kitchen Counter tops, both natural, and polished to a high gloss. Also bird baths, ponds, fountains, and table tops. I love this work.

The possibilities are many, colors, exposed aggregate, hard troweled. Many ways to enhance your living space with the durability and beauty of decorative concrete. I work in Big Bear Valley, where I can stay close to the trees, the hiking trails and far from the madding crowds.

More of my works

I

also do native stone, cultured stone, and pavers ( walkway/drive)

some better pictures of my work

my own island

I am going to design and make a new island top for my own kitchen
it will be ALL ME, big, strong, colorful, and irregular in shape.
It will serve well in a small but busy kitchen and replace the temporary
island top - (wood, made from a discarded dining room table)
will post pics when I get it started

blue concrete, native oak

large farm sink, just out of the mold

 

 

 

new work

 

beginnings

fireplace redo

Merry Thanksgiving

mom is well ( enough)

wow
the wedding is tomorrow evening
and in TRUE SCHMIDT STYLE
we have an abundance of things left to do
BUT
we have many willing and able hands to do these tasks
and ALL are saying, " it will all be fine"
so why don't you say that too
and make me feel better

God bless you

i have a new piece to show

its polished, just not stained
i thinkits down in the archives, but i just got back to it
like so many projects that have been waiting.

Now is the time
Now is My time

time to polish some concrete

i am going to resume my work in concrete
now that it is warmer,
and I have my head on straight

Philosophy

If you never did anything that scared you,
if you never attempted something totally new,
life would consist of repeating the same steps
and never feeling that "edge of the diving board" thrill.

Go, do exciting things.
Learn, if even by your mistakes.
Live a life which will make for good stories when you are old.

island and bartop

seamless corners