I'm telling you, there's no other way to do your basement floor.  Even the not so perfectly finished concrete slab can be stained and sealed to look fabulous.  Acid stain even makes cracks in the concrete look natural, like they belong there.

Deer Valley Driveway

Acid stained driveway

Little Cottonwood Res.

Driveway's - tell me acid stain isn't the best lookin' way to do concrete.  Main field was a pretty straight forward process.  The borders were done by hand to make individual stones various colors.

In the back yard I overcoated the pool deck.  The contractor who poured the deck and the coping poured them different colors.  I made them the same.