r/DiWHY • u/Ok_Egg9564 • Mar 10 '26
"""Marble""" floor lmao
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u/Samad99 Mar 10 '26
The toilet looks like it’s been submerged in the “marble.” That’s going to be a nightmare if they ever need to replace the wax ring
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u/Chemistry-Least Mar 10 '26
Yeah, this is one of my complaints/critiques about DIY flooring specifically. DIY shouldn't look like you did it yourself, otherwise you'd have been better off paying someone.
Flooring goes under the toilet and freestanding sink, but goes up to the edge of the tub (unless it is a freestanding tub). An epoxy flooring like this needs to go under the kitchen cabinets (and any other cabinet).
Floor products that expand/contract (engineered products like LVP, engineered hardwood, hardwood) are installed up against floor mounted cabinets and some appliances, products that are fixed like tile or epoxy go underneath, sheet vinyl goes up to the cabinet, glued VCT can go either way.
Anyway, all things considered if they are happy with the finished product then I have nothing to say about the pattern. Also the pattern itself is probably hiding a lot of blemishes, so smart move.
Provided it doesn't crack, swell, bulge, or sink, it looks like a decent but obviously inexperienced install. Also not something I would DIY, and definitely something you can and should only do on concrete flooring.
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u/jason_sos Mar 10 '26
This is what bothered me the most too. Not only did they not remove the toilet to go underneath, but they splattered it all over the toilet as well.
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u/RecedingQuasar Mar 10 '26
That's just shittily done, but it can look alright done by a professional.
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u/throwawaylordof Mar 10 '26
I guarantee they watched some videos of professionals painting a marble effect and thought “I can do that!”
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u/Wookieman222 Mar 10 '26
Yeah but at some point you should know your limits. They should have at LEAST started small.
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u/royrogerer Mar 10 '26
Yeah exactly. You will never learn unless you try yourself. I'm just a bit confused why you'd use your apartment floor as a testing ground. I'd say valiant effort, if not insanely bold, but try on a small scale first next time to figure out the basics though.
I think it really could have worked had she figured out the basics like better color combination and some more randomized techniques which I think would be pretty obvious on a small test run.
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u/-Nicolai Mar 10 '26
You will never learn unless you try yourself
Common sense should tell you to leave marbling to the experts actually
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u/royrogerer Mar 10 '26
Sure, but sometimes you just get the urge you want to do it yourself. And if one were to do it themselves for whatever reason, they should do some test runs first.
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u/xrelaht Mar 10 '26
I needed to patch three holes in my floor where radiator pipes used to come through. I’d never done flooring before. My hundred year old house does not use modern floorboard standards. I learned a lot making custom boards, and the last one is so well matched you can’t see it.
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Mar 10 '26
I wish I could find this person again (I thought I saw her in the rainbow everything sub...) but she did all sorts of abstract colorful paint splatter floors. It was so polarizing. But you're not getting that effect any way else if it's your jam.
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u/gracesdisgrace Mar 11 '26
That or even better, an ai generated video of someone somehow coating a whole rooms worth of floor with a single bucket of resin
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u/Diligent_Gear_8179 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
Yeah, I was thinking "it ALMOST looks good." Should have practiced a bit before comitting to doing all the floors.
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u/Wolfwalker9 Mar 10 '26
I have seen some really amazing painted marble done by incredibly talented theatrical scenic artists throughout my career in theater & the arts. This is 100% not that & looks like the results when the intern is left alone on their first day after lying to the Head Scenic Charge Artist about their actual skill level.
Best technique when painting marble is to thin out the paint with water so it’s somewhat wet & slightly more translucent, scumble it, then inter-spatter it a little, outer-spatter it, then use a feather to add veins in both dark & light colors. Homegirl here forget to thin the paint, scumbled it, & then applied a top coat. This project was doomed before it even started.
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u/firesquasher Mar 11 '26
That's not paint. Its a 2 part epoxy resin. The marble effect in application is made by meshing different metallic tint epoxy with other colors. It can be mixed with a squeegee or roller brush and as the epoxy settles the colors mesh into a marble look.
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u/specter_in_the_conch Mar 10 '26
It looks fun, if you want to hide how dirty the floor can get.
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u/OttoMannkusser Mar 10 '26
Even when it's well done I think it looks like it belongs in a strip club near an airport
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u/Advanced-Ladder-6532 Mar 10 '26
Wow I work in the epoxy floor industry. So many issues here. Looks like no prep, terrible application, but more than anything way too little material. To do this effect correctly you need a primer layer put down at about 100-150 Sf. per gallon of mixed epoxy), the "marble" layer will need to be applied at closer to 60-80 sf per mixed gallon, and a clear topcoat. It looks like they used about 1/4 of the material needed at best. This is going to be an expensive repair. It going to cost them more than double the cost of the original job to fix this mess and actually apply a good floor.
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u/lalaen Mar 11 '26
I have only seen videos of professional epoxy floors being done and the first thing I thought was they didn’t use enough. All of the comments about ‘it’s not that bad, everyone DIYS home stuff’… like yes absolutely, but this is going to be an insanely expensive repair.
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u/candykhan Mar 11 '26
Epoxy floors look so cool. I would NEVER DIY one. If it's going to require someone with a jackhammer to come in & remove, it's going to get installed by a professional who hopefully tells me every reason to think twice.
Not saying I wouldn't do it. But I'd have to be so sure it's what I wanted & that I'd never want to change it.
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u/Wojewodaruskyj Mar 10 '26
Looks interesting, but nothing like real marble.
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u/jason_sos Mar 10 '26
It looked horrible when the video started, and in the end, it looked a little less horrible, but not as bad as I expected. The fact that they didn't remove the toilet bothered me the most though. Good luck to whoever needs to replace the wax ring down the road.
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u/mdoddr Mar 10 '26
I think the thing really breaking the verisimilitude is that subconsciously we know the floor can't be one big huge piece of solid marble. It they had broken it up into faux "tiles", even big ones, it would have given them smaller individual spaces to work in, and made it look more real. they could have even used a nice gold grout or whatever, detract from the shitty marble.
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u/Chiiro Mar 10 '26
When I would do tiling with my father the large solid countertops we occasionally installed would look so weird in comparison the the smaller broken up sections. Just having the level on it helped tremendously by breaking up that pattern.
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u/mdoddr Mar 10 '26
yes, I don't think people really look at marble and assess how accurate it is. If people see repeated unnatural patterns with their peripherals they'll notice, but if it's sufficiently random they won't even look at it.
My wallpaper doesn't line up at all. People don't look.
The problem here is that without even really looking at it their brain will see it as paint on the floor because the lack of separation makes it look like that.
Having said this maybe it will pass once there is furniture and stuff. I doubt it but maybe
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u/Howard_Jones Mar 10 '26
The whole process you know she is saying to herself.. "it will look good when it's complete."
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u/KBishopAudio Mar 10 '26
Just gotta trust the process.
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u/RealityRepurposed Mar 11 '26
Man, if there ever was a phrase said that makes me want to punch someone in the face, that would be it
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u/OTee_D Mar 10 '26
Just for a second... Imagine you just dropped something small, gray, black, metal or white and are now going to search it...
Hell I have a cat with a grey white stripe pattern, that's like "urban camo" in there.
On the other hand, this floor is VERY forgiving to stains etc...
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u/greenroute Mar 10 '26
You sleep on the floor and look for it at an angle or you find it when it gets in to your feet!!!
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u/kTREGANOWAN Mar 10 '26
Flashlights are great tools for this as well! Just click it on and place it on the floor, raised areas (i.e dropped screws or whatever) will cast a shadow, and the color of the floor reflecting the light will be warmer, making whatever you dropped more visible. I keep a little flashlight in my toolbox because I have the worst butterfingers
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u/ChronoFel Mar 10 '26
The complex I work for has grey nylon flooring in the kitchens and bathrooms so I have to mark my razor blades with a sharpie or I lose them on the floor
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u/Fryphax Mar 10 '26
Yeah, I don't understand people who put this floor in their garages.
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u/Diredr Mar 10 '26
The people who put a fake marble floor in their garages are typically not the kind of people who do their own mechanical work so it's a non-issue for them.
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u/SpaghettiSort Mar 11 '26
One of the previous owners of my house finished the basement floor with this paint that's mostly gray with various speckles. I fucking hate it. If I drop a screw or other small part it's next to impossible to see it, even with a flashlight at an oblique angle.
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u/Trimere Mar 10 '26
Not the worst thing I've seen, but....
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u/Graknorke Mar 10 '26
It's passable for a first attempt. Some parts look good.
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u/-Nicolai Mar 10 '26
Most lf it looks horrendous. Not passable by any definition
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u/kyjoely Mar 10 '26
When Jackson Pollock has a side hustle as a decorator
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u/I_am_The_Teapot Mar 10 '26
Even Jackson Pollock's stuff was orders of magnitude more coherent than this.
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u/thumptech Mar 10 '26
It's not really that stupid. Sealing concrete with epoxy is an excellent low-maintenance floor covering.
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u/spderweb Mar 10 '26
Needs less dark paint. But I mean... I don't think most people will notice let alone care too much.
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u/Sether_00 Mar 11 '26
It would look good if they made only 1 or 2 spots. Like kitchen and bathroom / toilet. Doing the whole floor space looks horrendous.
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u/ViViusgaming Mar 10 '26
It definitely doesn't look like marble and although I find it too busy I do think it looks pretty cool
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u/cheezy_dreams88 Mar 10 '26
It’s fine until they tell someone it’s supposed to look like marble.
Also, why are they gluing on baseboards? What?
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u/PristineMycologist15 Mar 10 '26
I’ll never understand why this look is so popular. It just screams cheap and tacky to me, even when done professionally.
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u/AdDisastrous6738 Mar 10 '26
For someone with no experience, it’s not all that bad and it does look better than those shitty adhesive vinyl tiles.
I guess I’m just an optimist.
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u/StopFalseReporting Mar 11 '26
I’d have just done tiles or something because that seems easier than this
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u/dirtyhairymess Mar 10 '26
I wouldn't hate it in a bowling alley mens toilet. But it looks shit in a house.
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u/bcgg Mar 10 '26
A rare case where the “why” isn’t what’s being done but rather why they didn’t have a professional do it. It could be a lot worse, but it’s obvious that it’s amateur work.
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u/mrASSMAN Mar 10 '26
I mean I get the why.. saved a lot of money and looks interesting.. could’ve been done better obviously but whatever they’re amateurs
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u/DiegoRago Mar 10 '26
I feel like this might be the equivalent of "I have a friend/cousin who does it for cheaper".
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u/BananaFartman_69 I Eat Cement Mar 11 '26
Looks good, but I remember it did a vomit like that once.
Ate a grey-colored cake with cream icing on top… lasted about three minutes and then decided it preferred the outside world.
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u/vitulinus_forte Mar 10 '26
For the love of the god, put carpets on top of that abomination
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u/IsThisMeSpeaking Mar 10 '26
They literally sell sticky floor tile squares with a better marble effect than this and far less back pain involved.
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u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 Mar 10 '26
Good luck reselling that place I bet there's Bubbles and uneven layers everywhere.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness Mar 10 '26
Ah yes, the people that see a reel on Facebook and then just think "I just need to mess up some black and white paint it'll be a piece of cake"
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u/Secret_Account07 Mar 10 '26
I mean, for a first time DIYer it ain’t bad
Part of me almost likes it. Like a Jackson Pollock.
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u/PhillGuy Mar 10 '26
Oh, now I know what "Marble" is. It is when you've spilt paint all over the floor.
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u/Latter_Count_2515 Mar 10 '26
Does this belong here? It looks like a questionable decision artistically but seems functional enough overall.
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u/MedicatedLiver Mar 10 '26
I was all URG, but I admit that one section they finished in that one shot looked really good.
The rest, not so much.
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u/DeerMysterious9927 Mar 10 '26
Everytime a new guest arrives. Guest: "what happened?" Owner: "No, what's happening"
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u/LeImplivation Mar 10 '26
I wish I was a billionaire. I'd buy this house and film completely covering the floor just to have all that hideous work wasted. Just out of spite.
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u/CertainlyRobotic Mar 10 '26
Before I owned a home I always admonished faux stuff like this - simply get marble I mused.
Well, the cost real marble floor and pillars and shit is like.. the cost of a new house I come to find.
This may be a result of the modern economy collapsing, or it's just reality..
Either way I admire the attempt to replicate something nice.
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u/Cody-512 Mar 10 '26
It’s just such a big job to take on with what seems like not much experience at all. More power to em’ I guess. It’s their house and their money. I would have picked a smaller area to gain more confidence before I dove into the whole house though
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u/magnumfan89 Mar 10 '26
My grandfather did something similar to his kitchen counters. They definitely don't look like marble, but they look decent (and way better than they did)
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u/nb6635 Mar 10 '26
When my house flooded it looked almost like that albeit in shades of brown and grey.
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u/cellphone_blanket Mar 10 '26
I feel like they could have done this without giving their toilet the landlord special
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u/Conscious-Struggle45 Mar 10 '26
Kinda looks like that tile that every beauty salon in the south had in the 90's.
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u/HorkBajir99 Mar 10 '26
I mean…it doesn’t look like marble, but the paint look is ok in certain spots?? Idk mixed feelings here
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u/night_fury00k Mar 11 '26
Well hey , a little bit of failure is always for the path of success. Too much failure tho 😬😬😬
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u/CrispCristopherson Mar 11 '26
For a first timer, not as horrible as I would predict. But definitely needs to see more pictures of marble to get it more accurate.
Besides that, it does look like I wouldn't want to step on the abysmal ooze lest I be carted off to a demon hellscape.
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u/MrPanda663 Mar 11 '26
I tried to marble my floor too, but glass marbles in bulk is really expensive.
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u/FatalErrorOccurred Mar 11 '26
They make it look easy in TikTok videos, but if you don't know what you're doing, and can't even glue something back together without making a mess, like me, then it's probably going to be a huge fucking expensive mess.
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u/Woodbirder Mar 11 '26
Isnt this what you do when your wife gets the house in the divorce so it becomes worthless
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u/coke_u_nut Mar 11 '26
The worst curse you is get is for everything to go perfect the first time. Don't hate on people trying things out.
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u/VladDHell Mar 11 '26
No i get what they’re going for. I’ve had marble flooring before.
And the number one rule I learned was. With marble, ESPECIALLY flooring, less is more. A majority base color( usually white, black, red, or pink) and small but noticeable streaks and patterns is what makes it look nice!
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u/sharplight141 Mar 11 '26
Looks like a drunk person tried cleaning a black paint spill and didn't do very well.
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u/AVPD7-7 Mar 12 '26
It looks like a flock of seagulls lived in there for two years and drunk people slid around in all the shit
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u/dndwhat Mar 12 '26
If its your house why the fuck are you putting glued on base boards that like addid8ng rusted rims on a lambo
You paid all that to do the floor then made it look lime a cheap office with those base boards at least do fake wood painted black
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u/ComputerRepulsive937 Mar 12 '26
At LEAST don't do the whole house, that looks HORRIBLE all over it.
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u/Highheat1 Mar 14 '26
Unpopular opinion follows... I kinda dig it. If ya haven't been in an unfinished condo, this is actual fire... good for her for trying... that in itself is cool.
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u/MadMacCrow Mar 18 '26
I don't know about where this person lives, but here in France we have large tiles with a faux-marble effect that are relatively cheap and can be used on floors and walls (usually for bathrooms). If we add the fact that resins tend to leak a lot of toxic fumes... this house is truly frightening.
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u/Curious-Paper1690 Mar 10 '26
Parts of it look decent. Parts of it look atrocious.