Cary Grant of Floor Seasons performing his Decorative Concrete artistry at the Scofield booth during the 2007 World of Concrete

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"A great way to practice is to get on a floor where carpet or wood is going in, and just start cutting. It's gonna get covered up anyway."

"A lot of the stuff I learned was all trial and error. We would take string and soak it in black, and then doing the floor in green and putting the black yarn through it first, and then it bleeds a little bit and it looks like cracks. One time we took a black stain, and then we took a red rose fertilizer, a powder, and just threw it in along the edges. It looked so cool." -- Cary Grant

"Get comfortable with how big of a circle you can cut, and don't sell a customer on anything larger."

"I cut all of this with a 4" non-segmented diamond blade. It's a Dewalt blade, it's about $35 and you can buy it at Home Depot. And then I use a Makita saw. I use no gauge. Normally with these kind of pieces you're gonna come back and grout it. Once you get some grout in it, it cleans all that stuff up."

-- Cary Grant

"The great thing about Scofield stains is that they're very reactive. I'm not diluting it, I want to get the best green I can possibly get out of it. I'm using the stain full strength -- on white it's gonna react either way."

-- Cary Grant

"Although this may look more difficult, I've actually made it a whole lot easier because I've given myself a whole bunch of start and stop lines. Staining a large expanse with a brush can leave lines, so I've made it easier on myself. If you're just starting, things that are this cut up give you a lot of forgiveness."

-- Cary Grant

"I like these chip brushes because I can basically just throw them away. With me the foam brushes will deteriorate a lot quicker than I want it to. The straighter up you keep the brush, the more the stain is gonna pool, which is actually a good thing with the green. You really get a good green by using more stain. If it pools a lot, that's great."

"The cool thing about this panel is that it's actually on white (overlay) so the colors are gonna pop. And when you get close to those edges (cut lines) you wanna be real careful not to flick."

-- Cary Grant

"I don't consider myself an artist. I have artistic designs printed on vinyl, stick the vinyl to the ground, cut through it and voila! You don't have to be an artist. Most of the big stuff I do, I have my tattoo artist come out and draw it for me. Projecting it is also a great way to do it."

-- Cary Grant

"I started just doing brown like everyone else, but the more risk I took the more money I wound up making. When I first started out I would do a 600 square foot stain job, and I would ask them, 'Hey, could I put a sundial in the front door?' because that's how we build the portfolio. And then once I had a picture of a sundial, and the next person saw it, I could say 'Yeah, I want $300 for it'. When I first started I was giving those kinds of things away, instead of just doing a plain brown floor that anyone could have done. It's a way of separating yourself."

-- Cary Grant