I want to do somehting to the garage floor to make it look more appealing. Besides painting, what else can I do to make it more attractive but pratical?

H&C concrete products have a line of colored concrete stains and sealants that make concrete more attractive and easier to clean. Might check out the website? H&C concrete products.com

I couldn't find the website. Any other suggestions for the floor? Is this easy to put down?

Thanks for the cool lead Conrad. We have a concrete wall I'm hoping to stain in the summer. It was nice to look at the color charts and DIY guidance. Wish they had a gallery though.

Tom, website is here:

http://www.hcconcrete.com/index.asp

Thank you. I reviewed that website as well as some others. Has anyone used any of these products? Which product would you recommend?

We used the H&C products on our front concrete porch, and are pleased. Kemiko is another brand that posters seem to have good things to say about.
Kemiko

We used Rust-Oleum EpoxyShield Garage Floor Coating Kit · from Lowes. It comes in beige or grey with colored specks. Looks good.

They also sell interlocking vinyl raised blocks, but they're pretty expensive.

I had a sample of the inter-locking tiles send to me. Has anyone used these? I'd like the easiest method possible with the longest longevity. I'm not sure after viewing these websites that they would be any better than the epoxy kits from Lowe's. Any advice?

this is our work, tommy & most often we hear complaints from folks who used hckemiko,,, if you really want to diy, h/dloweacehdwe's got mtl but the whole key's PREPARATION !
have to do my own floor but'll probably use colorflake on polyaspartic urethane perhaps acid-stain w/methyl-methacrylate sealer.

We did exactly what BMMA did. It was super easy to apply and looks really really nice. People have actually commented on how nice it looks. We did the beige colored one.

How does the Lowe's product hold up after time and use?

That would be my question too Tom, as to how long the painted floor will hold up in a freeze/thaw climate like we have in the midwest.

The pro companies that apply the epoxy garage coats around here, only guarantee their product for two or three years. After that, every application that I am aware of, started to peel in spots? Unlike a stain, that is easier to repair if worn areas occur, the paint peels in large areas.

Anyone else?

already post'd what we're doing at our own house,,, that should be sufficient,,, no epoxies here other'n some testing spots.

We used the Rustoleum epoxy on our garage floor a few years ago. Followed the directions to the letter and didn't park a vehicle in there for 3 weeks. The epoxy did start to pop up and we ended up with a mess on the floor. We tried to scrape it off and it only came up in certain places and wouldn't in others. Late last summer we ran across a clearance sale at Sam's Club on the rubber snap together squares. They had enough to do our garage but didn't have the end pieces that you use to taper off from the garage to the driveway. We called the manufacturer and they sent us a box of those and so we ran back to Sam's to get the squares. Our garage is 22x24 and we ended up doing it for around $350.00. The squares are the dark grey and it looks great and has held up very well so far this winter. We had looked into these floor squares before, but they were so expensive that we decided against them. When we found them on clearance we were thrilled because we got them at a really great price. Maybe you can find a similar deal this year.

j&j, point well made,,, most often failures can be traced to prep rather'n mtl but you might not've had a floor which was suitable for epoxy,,, realize its difficult to gain experience from reading labels,,, just because hdlowesacehdwe sells the stuff doesn't mean the staff knows anything or can help as you've found out.

We contacted Rustoleum about our problem and they asked for pictures and a sample that we scraped off. We did that and they responded that there was a problem with the epoxy (can't remember what the problem was), but they refunded the cost of two kits which was very good of them. BUT, we were still stuck with a terrible mess on our hands!