Monday, February 21, 2011

The Biggest Pour Yet!

How to make a Terrene. Some have asked, "Why are they so expensive?" Well, we decided to document the handmade craft process to answer that question. We will be featuring this in a video on the webpage within a week or so to give a behind the scenes answer of, in a nutshell, "It's a hell of a lot of work."

Eric just completed a double pour, which is essentially mocking up forms for two mold boards, yielding close to 15 Terrene's each - in 2 colors. All of this in our garage. I have this funny feeling I'm never going to park in the garage.



All Terrene's are formed by pouring into a mold, handmade and cut for the specific modules. The sticks form the drain holes.

Ahhh...the secret recipe. I'll never tell!!! The recipe makes or breaks your concrete design. Eric has been working on his for over a year.

Pour 1, Curing.

Pour 2. White.

Demolding. Very tedious.






Each hole has to be individually hand drilled to remove the styrofoam. An then diamond-pad sanded, buffed, and polished.


No mass manufacturing here!! (Note our trash cans in the back).

New Website Up - Phase 1 complete

Terrene now has a fresh new website up and running. I am in the process of building out Phase 2. Check it out.


Headed to Tinseltown

Terrene was given a very special opportunity to send a very special 5 Series to Hollywood. Eric pulled out all the stops to engineer this bad boy. We are crossing our fingers and toes. We will need yours too. This is the first time we've sent plants. And the first time using Fedex. We are hoping to pull out a few miracles.




Custom stationary!!! Kathy, look familiar? Terrene now has 'Care Instructions', Gift notes, and a story. Yeah!