An 80-year-old concrete warehouse floor gets a new life thanks to a thorough repair and a decorative finish.

To create a leather-looking concrete floor, Create-A-Crete uses a combination of textured microtopping and Terra Fresca concrete dyes. Kimberly Hegeman Feb 11, 2011 ...

Cleaning Your Concrete Floor Before Applying Stain. Before staining, the concrete floor has to be void of contaminants, be it oil stains, old ... Although there are few complaints about chipping, ...

Q: My home has 2½ baths. All three areas have cement floors with tiles laid in 1937, when the house was built. I want an update, but I would prefer not to take out the cement and tile.

Q. When it rains or snows, our garage gets wet. There is a slight pitch toward the doors, so we didn’t have puddles. Ultimately, the moisture would seep into the concrete floor and dry up.

Old concrete floors are trending. They shine as if proud of their checkered pasts. I’m looking at one now that once was covered in 9-by-9 tiles, meaning it’s literally checkered.