If you want an all-encompassing guide to staining concrete floors, check out “Bob Harris’ Guide to Stained Concrete Interior Floors,” written by Bob Harris, founder and president of the Decorative Concrete Institute in Temple, Georgia.
Staining & Coloring Concrete
Concrete’s natural color can be altered with powder or liquid stains, dyes and colored hardeners, as well as aggregates such as ground glass and stone.
Awesome Acrylic Stains for Concrete
Acrylic stains are finding new uses among decorative concrete artisans, both on their own and as companions to acids.
Broaden Your Knowledge with Concrete Techniques
Having many techniques in your arsenal can bridge the difference between your client’s vision and the reality of a project. Today’s clients are more sophisticated. They expect more. Plain gray concrete is no longer good enough for them.
Soy-based Concrete Stains
Using soy-based materials to strip, stain and seal concrete can be about as healthy as it gets. Concrete artisan Dana Boyer is selling the soy-based line through her concrete contracting outfit, Concretizen. Developed by friends of hers at New Century Coatings and sold by several "private label" resellers, the products have been personalized by Boyer to fit her vision.
Mike Miller a.k.a. The Concretist Inc.
Mike Miller, a Benicia, Calif., artist, calls his work "sensory concrete."
Effects with Reactive Stains on Concrete
There are unlimited opportunities to create fabulous effects with reactive acid stains. Acid stains are most mutable from the time they are sprayed onto the concrete until the reactive color change develops.
Concrete Contractor Fixes a Botched Stencil, Stain and Sealer Job
When you’ve just created art on 256 square feet of concrete entryway, you do not want to have it described as a "horse with a rash" two days before the opening of your client’s new retail establishment. But that’s what Tony Victor and partner Ben Washburn were up against in October 2007.
Reactive Stain on Concrete
It’s possible for concrete to have stone-like qualities without trying to be stone. It’s possible for concrete to be random and variegated like the knots and grain in wood without trying to be that wood. It’s possible for concrete to develop a visually active graphic patina like copper without it being, you guessed it, copper.
New Surface Treatment Formulated to Keep Ground Cool
As part of its effort to improve the environment through green product offerings, L.M. Scofield Co. has developed Solachrome Integral Coloring Treatment for High-SRI Concrete.
Hand-Shaped Faux Stones Made to Look Like Tin Foil
Ryan Neal of SBR Concrete was hired by a former client to create a basement floor that had to be not only easy to clean, but also unique. The end result was a floor made with hand-shaped rectangular "stones," each individually colored so that no two would look exactly the same.
