Residential Kitchen Metallic Epoxy Floor in Berea, SC

Hot Chocolate and Three-Tone Gray Metallic — Custom Kitchen Floor Over a Wood Subfloor

Zachary Daniel Concrete installed a custom metallic epoxy floor in a residential kitchen and laundry room in Berea, South Carolina — a striking blend of three shades of gray accented with a deep hot chocolate brown, finished to a sheet-of-glass smoothness over a replaced wood subfloor.The job started as a full kitchen renovation. The crew tore out the cabinets, replaced the original subfloor with a new wood substrate, and prepped the surface for a metallic system that's almost always installed on concrete — not wood. Wood subfloors require their own approach: different bonding chemistry, different products, careful attention to how the substrate moves over time, and a slower, more deliberate application process.

The ZDC team adapted their process to the materials the job called for and walked into a kind of install they don't see every day. The crew laid down the metallic system in the three-tone gray palette with hot chocolate poured and worked across the surface as the accent, then used denatured alcohol sprayed across the wet epoxy to chase out bubbles and pull the marbled, mottled, almost-otherworldly movement out of the material.

Shelly worked the spray bottle with the eye that experience builds — knowing exactly where to spritz to encourage the right flow and where to leave the material alone. After ten minutes of self-leveling, the bubbles disappeared, the surface settled flat, and the floor cured to a finish so smooth it reads like a pane of glass with depth painted underneath. The hot chocolate color, in particular, is the kind of warm rich brown that pulls the whole kitchen together — Zach called it his new favorite the day this floor went down. Call Zach at (864) 770-8608 if you have a kitchen, interior renovation, or unusual substrate that needs the same kind of finish.