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On the jobsite
With the bathroom vanities finished and the jobsite ready for us, we fought the daunting Atlanta traffic to start the overlayments for the floors and vertically stamped walls.

Before we began to create the floor's cobblestone and exposed wood plank look, we prepped for the overlayment by filling existing joints and dustless grinding the entire floor.

We applied the first application of stampable overlayment in designated areas to produce what looked like fields of stone in some areas and a wood plank in another part of the floor. The goal was to make it appear as though the cobblestone floor had chipped away and exposed these wooden plank areas which meant we had to bring our stenciled cobblestone up and over the edges of the stampable overlay.

The next day we masked the stamped overlayed sections and applied our base coat for the cobblestone stencil. Once the base coat was dry, we laid the cobblestone stencil and spray applied the next coat of overlay. We knocked down this layer with a trowel making a smoother surface less likely to catch dirt and contaminants. At the end of the day it was time for this old man to take a couple of Advil and tip back a pint or two to relieve the back pain brought on by bending over and knocking down 4,000 square feet of concrete.

The next morning it was time to clean the floor and apply water-based stain randomly to individual cobblestones which seemed to take forever because of the amount of cobbles. I must admit, spray applied stenciled concrete is not my favorite look; however, this came out nicely, especially after several coats of epoxy and polyurethane.