Finished: White Concrete Desk Project

The white concrete desk is completed and installed. The cobalt blue and green bottles with the white sand and cement really pops.

The hole for the computer cables was drilled after the desk was installed. I was concerned about the hole breaking during installation otherwise. Some minimal fitting was required to get everything to slide into place.

A completed, very cool, built-in desk.
Next Project: Illuminated bar top
The next project is going to be a bar/buffet top with crushed glass and fiber optic lighting.

Desk Progress

The desk got one thick coat of slurry right after the forms were removed. Then the top was ground through 50 and 100 grit before applying a second much thinner coat. It will cure another week before beginning to polish. All of the glass stayed in placed and looks good.

White Concrete Desk Reveal

One of the characteristics that helps lighten white cement is fine grinding, even finer than Type III high early strength cement. I will vouch for that. This countertop was hot to the touch 6 hours after placing. Good news is that it can be finished much sooner.

The desk proved difficult to strip the forms since the aggregate was glued in place. The glass stayed in placed and was well distributed across the surface. In this picture I started slurry coating the surface to fill the holes left from the curved part of the glass. In a day or so it will get a grind with 50 grit and then another slurry coat.