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Your home improvement contractor can help you with your concrete floors.

Painting your new concrete basement floor offers practical advantages, but it can also be a quite attractive option. Concrete flooring is no longer just for the basement but has become a design trend eastern MA premier home builders have watched develop over the past decade. In fact, today’s concrete floors can be gorgeous, sophisticated and stylish. Concrete floors, ground smooth, polished, stained, dyed, painted and even stenciled, are appearing in kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms far more frequently.

Practicality Comes First

The rise in the popularity of this flooring option has to do with improved coloring and sealing technologies. Properly sealed and painted, a concrete floor is extremely durable. Unlike lesser flooring options, concrete floors finished by skilled eastern MA premier home builders resist surface damage from high heels, heavy furniture, pet claws and other normal household wear and tear. It also resists damage from moisture when properly sealed with a quality sealant.

Concrete floors are typically easy to care for and often require just a quick pass with the broom and mop. They resist staining and don’t absorb odors. They aren’t high maintenance either. Depending on how highly used the area is, you may want to replace your sealant coat every one to three years. With muddy springs, wet autumns and snowy winters, it’s no surprise painted and sealed concrete floors are an increasingly popular choice for home remodeling in Dover and the surrounding areas.

Painting concrete can be great for home remodeling.

Let’s Talk About Looks

While some types of beauty may be fleeting, unable to withstand the test of time, that is far from the case when you paint, tint, dye or stain a concrete floor. When you use a knowledgeable, skilled southeastern MA home improvement contractor, you can expect your painted concrete floor to retain its good looks for years to come. With today’s polishing, coloring and sealing technologies, that floor will typically outlast the usual flooring options.

There’s an incredible array of options to choose from when painting your concrete floor. You can go old-school, keeping that industrial sort of look you’d typically see in a basement or you can go for a highly polished, gleaming and gorgeous concrete floor. You can use stencils to create the look of hand-painted medieval tiles or amazing Byzantine art inspired geometric patterns.

Coloring concrete floors can produce several visual effects, depending on the products used. Tinted stains offer a full spectrum of shades. Acid-based stains tend to be more translucent and more subtle in nature. Water-based stains can have those qualities, but they are also available in deeper, more paint-like colors. You can even include metal flakes, adding some shimmer to your floors.

Another way of painting concrete floors is with dyes, which add a rich depth of color due to the higher degree of color saturation. For marbled color effects, you can use water-based dyes. Add a high-gloss sealing coat and you’ll have a gorgeous floor that, with proper care, can last for decades. When you consider the lifespan of a painted concrete floor, it is a highly cost-effective choice.

Once you see the wide style potentials of painting a concrete floor, you may want to talk to your local eastern MA premier home builders about concrete floor painting options that are right for your custom built or remodeled home. Contact us to learn more about painting your new concrete floor.