Microcement Flooring and Color Wash Wall Finish Winter Park, FL

This Winter Park home had a double-height foyer with great bones, a soaring ceiling, a dramatic oak staircase, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a natural stone feature wall flanking the front door. The scope of this project was to unify all of it under a single surface language, one that felt warm, intentional, and custom from the floor to the walls without competing with the architectural elements already in the room.

Microcement was applied across the entire floor plane, from the entryway through the hallway and into every surface surrounding the staircase. The finish is a light warm cream tone that reads almost like honed limestone from a distance but is completely seamless with no grout lines and no tile breaks anywhere. Running it continuously across the main level tied every space together in a way that individual flooring materials simply cannot do.

For the walls, we used a Sherwin-Williams color-matched base coat pulled directly from the lighter tone in the microcement floor, then applied a second darker color on top using a color wash technique to build depth and movement into the surface. The two-tone result feels warm and organic without being busy, and the color relationship between the floor and walls feels deliberate rather than accidental. This same color wash technique appears in the marble powder bath at this address, and on both projects it transforms what would otherwise be a flat painted surface into something that feels like it was always meant to be there.

We also custom fabricated new metal baluster rods for the staircase in a brushed gold finish. The oak treads, handrail cap, and newel posts were preserved in place, keeping the warmth of the existing wood while giving the railing a finish that works with the new palette. The contrast between light oak and brushed gold is quiet and confident, the kind of detail that elevates a staircase without altering its structure.

When surface finishes are chosen and applied with this level of intention, the result is a space that feels cohesive in a way that is hard to define but impossible to miss. This foyer does exactly that.

Project type: Microcement flooring and two-tone color wash wall finish.

Location: Winter Park, FL.

Scope: Full entryway, hallway, and staircase surround microcement floor installation, two-tone Sherwin-Williams color-matched base coat and color wash wall finish, custom fabricated brushed gold stair balusters, oak stair tread and handrail preservation.