Earlier this year we adopted a dog from our local rescue group C.A.R.E.. this dog was not house trained and in our efforts to “convert” him he chewed a massive hole in our living room carpet all the way through the padding. We didn’t want to replace this with more carpet and didnt want the expense of tile or wood floors. We looked at so many options and then ran across information on stained concrete floors. We completed the process which I will show you below and it turned out amazingly well. It would have cost us over $3000 for new carpet and more than that for tile or wood floors and we purchased the items needed to stain the concrete ourselves and instead got the job done for less than $600 and have ended up with a much better outcome in my opinion. No more renting carpet cleaner or freaking out when something is spilled, I just wipe it up and move on!
Here are some visuals of different points in our project. The first step is to remove the existing carpet and padding and then thoroughly clean the floors.
So here we are with bare concrete floors after removing the tack strips and yes that is my huge black dog enjoying the cool concrete. The most amusing factor of the whole project was watching my husband try to use a buffer.
As you can see the tape we laid the lines down to make this look like tile/marble and we did not want to actually cut grout lines into our concrete as we didn’t want our house filled with concrete dust. Always follow the directions on your stain, not following directions caused us to have to do the staining process twice. Here is the result after the second round.
We were finally satisfied with the color so we removed the tape, sealed and waxed the floors after they had completely dried, and there we have the end result. I used a stencil and gold paint to accent the border. In all it took 5 days and it’s pretty maintenance free from there. I do have to re-seal and wax mine occasionally because of my dogs.
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How did you get the different colors / the tile looking pattern?
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Great Job!!!! Your floors are beautiful. I would like to pull up carpet in den and stain my concrete also. When we installed the carpet they had to float my floor due to Italian tile in front of fireplace. The floor was a little lower so they floated it. Would this be a problem with staining the concrete? Also I have slate tile in foyer which would but up to the stained concrete. What is your opinion on that?
Hi Renae,
To be safe I would remove the floating floor and install a new layer of fresh concrete on the top ( Doesnt have to be very thick) and there is a treatment that you can to the conrete mix before you lay it down that will open the pores of your concrete and allow it to take the color evenly. I don’t have the name of that additive but I can find out for you!
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