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In a time not too long ago, garages were all the same: outbuildings that were storage areas for parked cars, with boring gray concrete floors. Today garages have taken a more prominent place in the design of homes, often built to house three vehicles, and more often than not attached to the home. Garages have graduated from simple storage areas, becoming organized shops or showrooms. Today every bit of attention that a homeowner pays to the decorating of the home is paid to the garage as well, right down to what goes on the cement floors.

The growing trend to customize residential garages seems to have generated in the southwest, where mild weather encouraged people to spend time in their garages. With the addition of evaporative coolers and special heating systems, garages became useable in all four corners of the States, in all kinds of weather. As garages became extensions of living spaces, the organizational needs for the garages evolved as well. One of the first steps in customizing garages, the addition of custom cabinets, may have led to the popularity of garage floor coatings. "An unlikely friend to the garage floor," says Kirk Stokes at Key Resin West in Phoenix, Arizona, "is custom garage cabinets. With people getting more organized and wanting cleaner and better looking garages, it's only natural that they would want to upgrade the look of the floor as well." Homeowners no longer had to settle for boring, grey cement flooring. Now their garage floors could be as aesthetically pleasing as the rest of their home.

Not only does the addition of a garage floor coating, also known as garage floor painting, upgrade the look of the floor, it also increases resiliency to stains and hot tire marks. With many colors to choose from for base colors and accents, the choices are seemingly limitless. Painting cement floors is one of the most economical and aesthetically pleasing ways to enhance plain garage floors.

Want to learn more about turning your garage into an extension of your living area with the application of a garage floor covering? Review the links on this page for an overview of the available designs for your garage floor, how garage floor systems are installed, and maintaining your garage floor system.