Patent ID: 8684627

Claim:
A method of imprinting a visual and textural decorative pattern upon a concrete surface, the method comprising the steps of: providing a decorative finishing tool having a blade including a plurality of grooves and a plurality of pattern forming elements selectively positionable within respective ones of the grooves and collectively defining a visual and textural pattern; pouring a concrete mixture defining an exposed surface when poured; finishing the exposed surface of the concrete mixture to dispose a quantity of cement/fines paste derived from the concrete mixture at the exposed surface thereof; selectively configuring the decorative finishing tool by selectively positioning the plurality of pattern forming elements within respective ones of the grooves in accordance with a desired decorative pattern; and finishing the exposed surface of the concrete mixture with the decorative finishing tool with the blade facing the exposed surface of the concrete mixture to imprint the visual and textural decorative pattern upon the exposed surface, at least a portion of the blade being disposed within the concrete mixture and moved within the concrete in a plane substantially parallel to the exposed surface to create the visual and textural decorative pattern with the concrete.