Concrete Outdoor Coffee Table – Textured Sand Finish

A concrete coffee table in Textured Sand, a pale warm finish with a visible surface texture rather than a smooth cast face. The texture is what keeps a large pale slab from reading as a blank plane in the middle of a seating group.

Texture on concrete comes from the mold and the aggregate, and it changes how the surface behaves as much as how it looks. A textured face hides the fine scratches and ring marks that show plainly on a polished one, which matters on a table where glasses get set down without coasters. The trade is cleaning: a textured concrete surface holds more than a smooth one and wants rinsing rather than wiping.

It goes at the center of an outdoor lounge group, low enough to reach from a seated position. Concrete is heavy, so position it before the seating is arranged around it.

• Material: Concrete
• Finish: Textured Sand
• Type: Coffee table