Stairs & Floors

Floors and staircases do not have to mean tiles, boards or carpet. A horizontal surface can carry the same seamless finish as the walls around it — and because it runs through a doorway without a threshold strip, it makes a small space read as one space rather than three.

MicroCement is the one that does most of this. It goes on straight over an existing floor — including tiles, and including tiles over underfloor heating — in smooth or travertine-textured effects, so a floor can be changed without being taken up. Marmorino adapted for flooring gives the marble-like depth and lustre instead; sealed properly it stands up to a busy hall and to a wet room.

It is not only floors. Steps, stair treads and risers take the same finishes, inside and out — the curved external staircase at The Arches is Marmorino over concrete, worked round the curve, and it is on this page.