Kitchen Metallic Epoxy Floor in Berea, SC

A Rich Brown and Gray Metallic Pour, Adapted for an Uncommon Wood Substrate



Greenville Epoxy Flooring 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 team adapted the standard metallic epoxy process to the materials this job called for. The three-tone gray palette went down with hot chocolate poured and worked across the surface as the accent, then denatured alcohol was sprayed across the wet epoxy to chase out bubbles and pull the marbled, mottled, almost-otherworldly movement out of the material. Knowing exactly where to spritz to encourage the right flow — and where to leave the material alone — is what separates a flat, even metallic pour from one with texture and depth. After roughly 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 a whole kitchen together. It's the same metallic epoxy system behind every custom kitchen, bathroom, and basement floor we install across Greenville and the Upstate. Call (864) 252-1101 if you have a kitchen, interior renovation, or unusual substrate that needs the same kind of finish.