Selecting epoxy chip color with future interior color scheme in mind?

[Redshift]

Hi all:

I plan to coat my garage floor with either Epoxy-Coat or Wolverine, but my main question is this: if my future color theme/scheme is intended to be black/gray/red/white, and I plan to do a medium gray base coat, which flake colors would make the most sense?

The obvious answer would be black/gray/red/white, but I'm not sure if there is something more to it when selecting a flake color that I don't know about yet, since I've never done this before.

Here's the area to be coated - it's about 22x27 and I'll be matching it with my other 20x30 garage (to be done later):

 

[haugy]

Keep in mind. If your walls have color, do you want your floor to look exactly like it?

Most of these companies you can choose how much of each color you want. I think in your case a 30%/30%/30% for black, gray, and white, and 10% red. That way it has a little bit of red accent color but doesn't overly stand out compared to the rest of the flakes.

Or you could just omit the red, and have it simple and stand out from the walls. So each element has it's own presence.

 

[Redshift]

Keep in mind. If your walls have color, do you want your floor to look exactly like it?

Most of these companies you can choose how much of each color you want. I think in your case a 30%/30%/30% for black, gray, and white, and 10% red. That way it has a little bit of red accent color but doesn't overly stand out compared to the rest of the flakes.

Or you could just omit the red, and have it simple and stand out from the walls. So each element has it's own presence.

Good points. I would love to see more photos of anyone who has red accents on their walls and how their gray floor turned out with (whatever color) flakes.

Going gray/black/white flakes and no color means more options for wall color down the road, also, doesn't it? Hmmmm

 

[GarageEnvy]

I'm in the same boat. I'm deciding on chip colors and between Wolverine and Epoxy-Coat. I found the originalcolorchips.com website particularly good for selection of colors, blends and pictures. I also ordered one of their sample packs for about $20 that has a small bag of each color and quite a few blends. It helped me narrow my choices down quite a bit. I spread each sample bag out on a white paper plate.

 

[haugy]

Going gray/black/white flakes and no color means
more options for wall color down the road, also, doesn't it? Hmmmm

Best point of all. Neutral colors allow you room for change or updating. And while I love my house and my shop, it probably won't be mine forever. If I went with a wild color, it may hurt my resale down the road as well.

 

[regguy1]

Good points. I would love to see more photos of anyone who has red accents on their walls and how their gray floor turned out with (whatever color) flakes.

Going gray/black/white flakes and no color means more options for wall color down the road, also, doesn't it? Hmmmm

Gray epoxy with Blk / White / Blue flakes (you can barely see the blue)

 

[jsraaf]

I agree with going with something relatively tame, whether it's the red accent you mentioned or coordinating with the house exterior color scheme (my wife wants me to do the latter which I kind of tend to agree with).

If you're looking at color chips I'd suggest taking a look at Torginol (torginol.com) or colorflakes.com (same company) if you haven't already. Their color chips are much cheaper than Original (under $3/lb.). Plus they'll send a sample pack containing all their 150+ colors... for free.

 

[Redshift]

This forum is really great. Thanks to everyone so far. Regguy1 - your garage looks awesome. The floor really did the trick from "before" to "after" (and I love the dog - I sure miss my old buddy, we had to put him to sleep last year at age 13)...

Your pics have me thinking of a medium gray floor with a light to medium sprinkling of black and white flakes and that's it. Maybe just a hair of red, but I'll still want to be careful with adding colors. It will be MINE for many years to come (I wouldn't have spent that kind of cash on the house if I didn't plan to live here for many years) so I don't care much about resale, but I do care about not knowing what color scheme I may want in 5-10 more years!

AlphaGarage is quite slow to respond to emails or I'd have already ordered one or the other, but this helps me take time to pick the flakes.

Will any company's flakes work fine with either Epoxy-Coat or Wolverine? Wolverine tends to charge a ton for their flakes.

 

[Cruzin90]

For color chips, go to Torginol's site. You can look at a color chart, pictures of samples, and they have a color chip simulator (you pick the colors and chip size and they display about what it looks like).