Made by hand on the Warrego Highway
Three decades of casting concrete on the Warrego Highway — and a small team that still mixes every batch by hand.
In the early 1990s, Brian Collins started pouring concrete steppers under his mother's house — foot-shaped, one at a time, on the floor of a Queensland garage. The nursery trade liked them. Then someone asked for a bird bath. Then a fountain.
Twenty-something years on, the studio sits on the Warrego Highway at Hatton Vale, half an hour out of Brisbane. We've kept things small on purpose: a workshop, a yard full of moulds, a kiln of cured pieces ready to go. Every fountain, bird bath, planter and statue that leaves here is cast on site by someone whose name you can ask for on the phone.
We supply homes, gardens, nurseries and resorts from Rockhampton down to Coffs Harbour. About half of our customers walk into the showroom — the other half find us online, work out what they need over a phone call or two, and we deliver. Either way, you're talking to the people who made the thing.
What we make
Six families of pieces, all in reinforced concrete:
- Fountains — single bowls right through to 4-tier Italian and Quarter Horse designs
- Bird baths — Cambridge, square base, floral base, fluted leg
- Statues — figures, animals, finials, classical and modern
- Planters, pots, columns & plinths — for staging fountains or framing entries
- Ponds — surrounds, bowls and liners for water gardens
- Tables & seats — bench seats, leaf settings, garden coffee tables
Why concrete
Because it weathers. Concrete doesn't fade and it doesn't rust, and unlike resin or imported plastics it gains character as it ages. Sealed and looked after, a piece settles into the garden over the years — picks up a patina, takes on the sun, looks more at home than the day it arrived.
Come and see
The showroom on the Warrego Highway is open six days a week. Bring a tape measure if you've got somewhere in mind — we'll help you work out what size suits. If you'd like to see a fountain with water in it, ask in advance and we'll fill one.
4003 Warrego Highway, Hatton Vale QLD 4341
Monday–Friday 9am – 4:30pm
Saturday 9am – 3pm
Sunday by appointment
Cast on the Warrego
Made on site at Hatton Vale — not imported, not warehoused.
Made to weather
Reinforced concrete that ages into a garden — sun, salt and Queensland rain leave it with more character, not less.
Delivered along the coast
Rockhampton to Coffs Harbour, with regular freight runs.