Tips For Choosing The Best Epoxy Floor Colour For Your Garage

If you would like to upgrade your bare cement garage floor, you may want to consider an epoxy floor. It’s durable, versatile, shiny, and beautiful. However, choosing a colour for your floor is the main challenge, because epoxy is available in a variety of colours.

Although choosing a colour may seem like a simple task or small detail, it might end up affecting the aesthetic of your floor, and the garage as a whole. In addition, the colour you will choose can affect the amount of cleaning and maintenance practices that must be carried out in the garage.

Therefore, you need to be very cautious when choosing a floor colour. Follow these tips to make the right choice.

How To Choose The Best Epoxy Floor Colour

1. Choose The Colour According To Usage

 

Considering how you use your garage, you can then choose the most ideal colour for the floor. For instance, if you use your garage to just park your car, you should choose a colour that masks grease and tire marks. In this case, slate or black are ideal choices.

However, if you do woodwork in your garage, the colour of your epoxy flooring should be close to the colour of sawdust. This is important because the colour will disguise the dust, which will make the garage look less messy after working.

On the other hand, if you live in a place where there is light coloured soil, or near a beach, the colour of your garage floor should be white or something similar.

2. Pick A Colour Based On Garage Lighting

Depending on how your garage is lit, you can choose a colour to compliment it. For instance, when the garage has too much natural light, avoid metallic concrete sealers, because they tend to reflect light, causing the floor to give off a blinding light.

With a poorly lit garage, a light colour is ideal for your floor. The light colour not only makes your garage look bigger than it really is, but it also reflects natural light. This will eliminate the need to have more light sources in your garage.

3. Choose A Colour Based On Your Ability To Maintain It

After having a new epoxy floor installed , you will have to maintain it by keeping it clean. Remember, dirt can be seen easily with light colours. Therefore, light-coloured garage flooring requires frequent and heavy maintenance.

This will require you to set aside enough time to clean the floor every now and then. If you have the time and initiative to keep it clean, choosing a light colour is advisable.

However, if you don’t have the time and energy to clean the floor regularly, consider choosing a darker colour, since they don’t require intensive and frequent cleaning to look nice.

4. Pick A Colour That Matches Your Home

If you would like your garage floor and house to look connected, the floor colour should compliment or match with your house paint.

It is not always easy to find the colour that matches or compliments your home, especially if it’s an older home.

But, with the help of a professional, you can ask for advice that will help you make the right choice.

Conclusion And Recap

Having an epoxy garage floor comes with a lot of benefits. This includes a beautiful shine, easier cleaning, it can hide dirt with darker colours, and it resists chemicals, among other benefits.

Think about what you will use your garage for, and then choose the best colour, based on your needs. To sum up, follow these guidelines:

  • Think about the main purpose of your garage. If you only use it for your car, it’s best to choose a colour that can mask tire marks and grease, such as slate or black. If you’ll be doing some woodwork in your garage, go for the colour that is close to the colour of sawdust. This will disguise the dust and help you get rid of the messy look of the garage floor while you’re working and your wifey or friends drop by.
  • If you live near the beach, a lighter shade, such as wheat or bone, can help disguise any sandy footprints or tire marks.
  • Go for the colour that matches your home. This will give the impression that your garage is connected to the rest of your home.
  • Bear in mind the lighting of your garage: avoid metallic concrete sealers as they will reflect the light and make the garage blinding bright if there’s a lot of natural or artificial light in your garage. If it’s poorly lit or small, go for a light colour for the garage floor.
  • Choose the colour which you’ll be able to maintain regularly. If you don’t have the time to regularly clean the floor, choose a darker colour as dirt is more easily visible on brighter coloured floors.

Don’t forget that even if you opt for a darker colour, you should still clean it at least once a week, to maintain that beautiful shine! If in doubt, our experienced epoxy flooring experts will help with advice regarding the choice of colours and the installation itself!

After all, our experts do think about every little detail you may overlook when planning to breathe in some new life and get a new look for your garage, or any other working or living areas! Have trust in us as much as we have trust in our experience and expertise. And good luck with your makeover!