Need some input / advice.....

[Len Geisler]

Guys,

In my spare time (LOL)....I have been tossing around the idea to build a shop to display some of my builds and maybe even tell a little story also...I have made some sketches and drawn some rough plans for a two bay shop with small show room and a "back office".

Part of the floor, for the show room area will be stained wood, and I plan to use some coffee stirrers I got from someone a long time ago, little stain, some clear, nice wood floor. For the rest of the shop I want to have a "concrete floor. I would like some input / ideas for methods of doing this.

I plan on using some posterboard for the walls with some paint on the inside and some Plastruct Cinder Block on the outsides, or some combination there of. I am going this way as it is my first real jump into something this large and would like it to be a pleasant expirence for me...LOL...

Again, any thoughts on the topic would be appreciated, also any other thoughts, ideas or comments to be shared are appreciated.

[envious8420]

Hey Len, When I started mine, I sprayer the shop floor area with gray primer and felt it looked really good/close to concrete painted gray. I also considered recreating an epoxy covering with fleckstone paint and a logo buried under a bunch of clear, lots of layers of future .

[Mercman]

Len there are many ways you could do this. Here are 2 examples where I used the back side of a piece of Masonite for the concrete look.

On this one I just shot it with grey primer, and dusted a little flat black on it. The stains were done using dirty thinner.

On this one I did the same, only added sidewalk to it.

Another way would be to cast it in plaster. This one I used Smooth It for the concrete.

A tip about this stuff though. Rough up the surface a little to give it some bite. I forgot and it all slid off.

Or also as mentioned above the Fleckstone Paint works good also. Hope this helps out.

You may want to check here for ideas also.

http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a2/mercman51/DIO%20Book/

This is Ken H.'s book on dio making.