A Painted Concrete Floor: Pictures

Part Five About Painting Concrete Floors

The following are pictures of the living room concrete floor.  The concrete floor was painted with two coats of Sherwin Williams Floor and Porch Enamel, Interior/Exterior Acrylic Satin, then sealed with a clear top coat of H&C Concrete Sealer, Wet Look Water Based, available at Sherwin Williams.  The decorative paint was also Sherwin Williams Floor and Porch Enamel, Interior/Exterior Acrylic Satin.

Living room floor paint.

The orange paint was rolled directly on the brown base coat.  This makes the orange faint except when in sun light.  I like the effect.  It has different tones throughout the living room, as you can see in the images above and below.

With acrylic top coat.

Orange, red, and yellow paints tend to be faint without a white undercoat.  The semi-transparent effect of these tints can be used to good effect.

Paint only.  Satin sheen.

The above image shows the paint without the clear top coat.

With acrylic top coat.

Two coats of clear top coat change the appearance of the floor.

With acrylic top coat.  The camera angle  and exposure are deliberate to show the flaws in the floor.

You can see the difference between the paint sheen and the top coat shine.  As you can see in the above image, the extra shine reveals the flaws in the floor.  You can see where I patched a very long crack in the concrete, which I suspect runs through nearly the whole length of the house.  Once the furniture was returned to the room, the flaws became less noticeable.

To get a brighter orange, first paint a white undercoat.  After that has dried, paint over the white with orange.  I wish I had painted more patterns into the koi and less gold.  But my back was not sorry at all.

All the shades of color were mixed using brown, orange, blue, and white floor enamel.

As I mentioned in another post, I wanted to do a better job with the koi, but my aging back and knees forced me to finish the job as quickly as possible.

For information on how the floor was prepared and painted, you may see my earlier posts.  The first post in this series is Protecting A Concrete Floor.