Metallic Epoxy Flooring in Downers Grove, IL

What a metallic floor gives you

A seamless floor with real depth in it: color that gathers, drifts and settles into a pattern with movement, under a hard clear topcoat that takes the wear. No grout, no seams, no board edges and nothing to clean around. A dust mop and an occasional damp mop is the whole routine.

It is the finish that changes what a room is. A flake floor says well-maintained utility space; a metallic floor says this is a room. In a finished basement, a bar, a media room, a showroom or a converted garage, that difference is most of the point, and it is why people choose it over something cheaper that would have performed just as well.

Finished floors we have installed, including black and white work, are on the gallery. We would rather you looked at those than at a stock photograph, because on this finish the photographs of real floors are the only honest sample there is.

The effect is made on site, by hand

The other half of the answer is technique, and it is the part that catalogue thinking misses entirely.

Once the pigmented resin is down it gets worked while it is still moving, and how it is worked is what produces the result: how the color gathers and separates, whether it reads as tight ripples or long slow drifts, how much of the base shows through, where the light catches. Two installers can put the identical material on identical slabs and hand back visibly different floors. That is not a defect in the process, it is the process.

Scale changes it. A pattern that looks busy on a sample board can be exactly right across a large room, where the movement has the space to develop. The reverse is also true in a small bathroom or an entry.

It is also why metallic is the hardest finish to choose from a screen. Light changes it, and the same floor reads differently under daylight, warm bulbs and downlights. Scale changes it, because a pattern that looks busy on a sample board can be exactly right across a large room, and the reverse is true in a small entry. Distance changes it, because a metallic floor is designed to be read from standing height across a room, not from eighteen inches away, and photographs are almost always taken closer than you will ever stand.

So we bring samples to the room and put them on the actual floor, in the actual light, and you look at them from where you will be standing. Then you choose.