Decorative concrete acid staining is an inexpensive yet beautiful way to refinish an existing concrete floor. In the past, we’ve written about how to acid stain your concrete floors yourself. For this article, however, we wanted to give you a few ideas of what decorative acid staining concrete can look like to help inspire your next project.

Acid Stain Colours

Acid Stains come in a variety of different colours. The chart below shows you the various different hues commonly used in acid staining and what the finished product will look like depending on the finish of your concrete.

Acid staining colours

 

Single Tone Acid Stain

Below are examples of what concrete looks like after the staining process. Click on the photo to see the original source.

rown-stained-concrete-laundry-room-floor

outside concrete staining

 

 

 

 

 

 

kitchen acid staining

dark acid stain kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

hallway acid stain

dual tone acid stain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blue stained concrete

dual toned blue floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced Concrete Staining

Acid staining can also be used to make interknit patterns in the concrete

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brown and green livingroom floor stained concrete

multi-colour stained floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stone like acid stained floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope this has inspired and given you some ideas for your next concrete acid staining project. If you have any questions about acid staining, or any other concrete coatings and treatments, contact us anytime.