For indoor use, look for a food-safe sealer. While this project takes time and doesn’t give you the complete durability of slabs of concrete, you can skim-coat overlay your counters in place.

Rapid Set Skim Coat is a high bond strength, fast curing, smooth hydraulic cement based material for floor underlayments, concrete repairs, patching and skim coating on interior and exterior projects.

I resurfaced concrete floors with a skim coat of concrete. I used Quikrete Self-Leveling Floor Resurfacer concrete mix and poured a skim coat over the top of the existing concrete floors.

If you like the look of concrete but don’t want to remove your existing counters, you can skim-coat them with an Ardex concrete product meant for patching or skim-coating floors. As you can see ...