If you’re looking to upgrade your commercial or residential floors, your research might have brought you to epoxy. Epoxy flooring is a versatile, hardy flooring type commonly found in garages, airplane hangars, and industrial environments — but it can also make a great interior design choice in your home, office, or retail environment.
Epoxy comes in an endless array of colors and patterns that you can customize perfectly to meet your flooring needs! You could encourage social distancing with custom floor graphics for a checkout line in your business, embed seashells in the floor of your seafood restaurant, or spruce up your home with a gorgeous swirled-marble kitchen.
Epoxy is durable, chemical-resistant, easy to clean, and low-maintenance. If you’ve never considered it for your floors, take a look at our projects for some cool epoxy floor ideas:
Get Inspired With These Cool Epoxy Floors:
Match a Hangar Floor to Your Private Plane
While this epoxy floor looks simple at first, it’s been custom-bended to match this dark gray and black plane. With epoxy floors, the speckling can be custom-colored to match nearly anything. If color-coordinated interior design is up your alley, epoxy might be a great option!
Marbled Epoxy Adds a Luxe Touch
At first glance, this appears to be marble tile — but it’s actually epoxy flooring that gives a shiny, marbled effect and an upscale result to this residential project. Traditional marble tile is high-maintenance and prone to staining, while epoxy coatings are resistant to mess and easy to clean!
Rustic or Modern — Epoxy Flooring is Versatile
Epoxy floors are versatile — this gray floor works for both a modern, industrial-inspired commercial space as well as it does in a rustic, welcoming general store. With nearly endless finishes, epoxy can adapt to play a supporting character in your space or grab attention as the focal point.
Branded Swag? How About A Branded Floor
Epoxy flooring offers the opportunity to color-match anything, whether it’s a plane or a brand logo. Here, you can see the orange speckling matches the Harley Davidson logo that’s sealed into the floor. The long-lasting durability of epoxy works well with logos or other printed designs — you don’t have to worry about the finish wearing off or requiring touch-ups.
Metallic Epoxy Flooring Adds Eye-Catching Character
If you really want a show-stopping design, you can’t choose a better finish than metallic epoxy. Here, a business owner matched their flooring to their walls and plants, creating a unique look that showcases their style. This is an effect that you just can’t achieve with marble or tile!
Bring Your Interior Style Into the Garage
While this floor may appear simple, the sleek organization system paired with the coordinating epoxy floor makes this garage look like a part of the interior design! Though understated, this epoxy floor adds a cohesive element to the space and turns a typically messy or unfinished space into a clean, harmonious extension of the home.
Explore Endless Epoxy Color Choices
Last, but not least, this epoxy floor in bright cerulean blue is a great example of the customization options epoxy offers. Pretty much any color you can dream of can be mixed, marbled, or speckled into your floor!
If you loved these floors, explore our portfolio to see more great examples of epoxy’s versatility! We love creating custom works for our clients that stand the test of time.
What Are Epoxy Floors Made From?
Epoxy flooring is a coating made from resin and hardeners, that’s then applied to concrete. It can be customized with a wide array of colors and finishes, including speckling and swirled options. Epoxy flooring also comes in a glossy metallic finish that can create a three-dimensional shimmering marble effect, adding a high-end look to your floors.
Epoxy coatings are great for commercial and residential use. They are highly durable, low-maintenance, and easy to clean. Epoxy became popular for its use in garages and industrial settings due to its resistance to chemicals and ability to protect concrete from heavy use. It’s grown in popularity and is now seen in residences, retail stores, museums, and more.
Epoxy coatings are sometimes confused with garage floor paint. This is simply paint with latex or other additives that increase adhesion. While garage floor paint offers a similar look, it’s not nearly as customizable, durable, or protective over time.
How to Install Epoxy Floors
Epoxy coatings are best left to professionals! First, clean concrete is prepped with a strong etching solution to increase adhesion. Next epoxy solutions are carefully mixed and applied. After it’s applied, it must cure for up to a week, though it may be stable enough to walk on within a day.
Get in Touch With Cape Cod’s #1 Epoxy Floor Company Today
Are you based in Cape Cod and looking for a new epoxy floor? Our experienced team at Cape Epoxy installs custom epoxy floors in residences and commercial settings throughout Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and surrounding areas. Get in touch to learn if epoxy flooring is right for you.
