Concrete Floor Paint Coating
Concrete floor paint ideas in this article will provide some guidance to make your floor appearance look appealing. When you apply concrete paint in your concrete floor you will define your house differently.
Painting your concrete floor definitely will help you to creatively decorating your floor and save your money. Here are some floor painting ideas you can use to make your floor looks appealing.
Concrete Floor Paint ideas for Tiling Look
Faux tiling is technique that makes your floor as if it’s tiled and not painted. It also great technique to create visual illusion and it’s quite easy. The first thing you need to do is painting the floor with a light color. Then make a tile like section using masking tape. Next, use darker color to paint the floor and let it dry. Take the tape off when the paint dries properly. As results you will see grout lines on your flooring. In order to create visual interest, you can use your creativity and experiment with the color and shape that you interest in.
Concrete Floor Paint ideas for Wooden Flooring Look
The first step is use brown or light shade paint color that looks like the trees stem and let it dry. Next step is painting the floor with mixing four parts of glaze and one part of darker brown. This will create a glaze on your floor. Final step is giving wood flooring look to the concrete floor. You can use wooden graining tool over it and use it in one direction only.
Epoxy Paint
Painting your flooring using Epoxy floor coating is also great ideas. It is the best and ideal basement concrete floor paint. It will provide you protection against stain and moisture. You also can get smooth and even surface area using epoxy paint as it fixes very great with concrete floor. Epoxy paint is a good choice for outdoor areas and durable which expose to weather change. Known for his quality, you can use this paint on every season. Usually, epoxy paint is not use for indoor flooring. Fortunately, you can a great flooring effect if you use the right color.
Abstract Designs
Concrete floor paint can be used to create many of abstract mosaic designs. You can use sponge with the shape of you choice. Then
imprint the sponge in your floor after you dip it in the paint. Actually there are many sponge painting techniques. As an example, you can use a lot of cartoon characters and using various colors for your children room. The way to do this is quite simple. Just stamp the floor directly with various background color and shapes that you desired. The most famous shape stamp is a leaf shaped stamps. You can use them on the floor with various green colors. In order to gives serene look, you can give a light green background coat and then using dark green colored stamps on it.
Some of you might find that these ideas are quite hard to do. If you willing to try these ideas make sure you use concrete floor paint with a good quality. As far as I know Benjamin Moore and Co in New Jersey, Behr in California and Motor City Flooring in Michigan have a good quality of concrete floor paint product.