Professionally stained and polished concrete floors in a high-end home. (Compare with my painted concrete at the end of this post)
1. For the first step, (I lost the pictures), but you’ll need to thoroughly clean the floors. This means using a heavy duty scraper if you have carpet glue on the surface or whatever gunk might be on it. Once all the debris is loosened and swept up, you’ll want to shop vac the surface multiple times to remove the dirt and dust. Then, you’ll want to go over the surface at least a couple of times with a mop and a bucket of water and concrete cleaner. I did not acid etch mine. They were so old that the surface was not shiny at all and was rather rough. Plus I had no drain nearby for water to drain into. Once this is all done, you might want to shop vac again. After this, you’ll want to put two coats of Behr concrete/masonry bonding primer down. It goes on clear and dries tacky. Just use a pan and a roller. It goes very quick and will only take you a half hour. Rolling floors is much easier than rolling walls.
2. Now that your floor are primed, you can put down your first basecoat of paint. I used Behr concrete paint tinted to a camel color. I can’t remember the name, but any camel color will do. (And I lost those pictures as well for my first basecoat. But you’ll be able to see the basecoat in the following pics)
3. After your basecoat has dried (it’s up to you if you want to put an additional coat on), you can put your first textured effect on. I went with a Chocolate Cupcake color. I simply used a textured roller, and then lightly rolled the floor so that it looks like tire tracks. 
4. Next, I applied the Apple Crisp color to get the glaze effect. I did not add any glaze to the mix. All I did was dip the textured roller in the pan, and then lightly rolled a small area. With very little paint still on the roller, I rolled a thin transparent film on the surface. Since there wasn’t much paint on the roller, the Chocolate Cupcake textured pattern showed through.
5. Once this dried, I then went over it with an English Saddle Brown color using the same technique I did with the Apple Crisp. By this point, it will really start to look good. You will get the “Faux Suede” effect and the lighter colors underneath will show through. I rolled the floor twice with this technique using the English Saddle Brown. The second time gave me a little bit of a darker more brownish effect that I was looking for while still allowing hints of the lighter colors underneath to show through.
Completed with black border. Wet Look sealer has not been applied yet
6. Since I did not want to install quarter rounds on the base moulding, I decided to paint a 4 inch black border all the way around the room. This has been done before with concrete stained floors. Sometimes a black border will be painted with a black epoxy around the perimeter of the room to cover tack strip holes left in the concrete that have been filled in. It also seems to give the floor a nicer effect. For mine, I of course used Black Behr concrete paint. Not epoxy.
7. Once everything is good and dry after several days, I applied 3 coats of Behr concrete “wet look” sealer. It adds a nice barrier protection to your painted surface similar to polyurethane for floors. Maybe not quite as good as polyurethane, but definitely adds extra protection to help your floor resist foot traffic and it gives it a nice glossy shiny look. Otherwise, without it, your floors will look like…well….like they have been painted and will scratch easier. One tip is that the “wet look” sealer will go down milky but will dry clear. However, the downside, is that I did experience a small tiny area where the “milkiness” did not clear and it left a little bit of a white haze over my nice floors. Unless I find a solution to this problem, I will just leave it. The rest of the floors look great regardless. So the Behr “wet look” sealer isn’t absolutely perfect. I had perfect luck with it on my last project, but this time wasn’t as lucky.
Completed (compare to the high-end home with professionally stained floors in the first photo of this post)
Hello! The floor looks great! Did you use the Behr solid color concrete stain or the or the Behr porch and floor paint? Thanks!
I used the Behr porch and floor paint. I wanted to use the stain, and my recommendation is to stain concrete, but the concrete I had was so old and in bad shape, that it would all show through if I had stained it. So, I cleaned, used a concrete bonder for paint, and then faux painted with a texture roller using different colors of Behr Porch and floor paint. It looks great and it is fairly durable. But still have to be careful with it as far as not scooting furniture across it. I do have a high gloss concrete sealer on it as well. Since it was just my basement, I went painted it. I was going more for a “bar room floor” look.