Azure Blue EverStain™ is the boldest color in the EverStain™ range — a true blue that reads anywhere from soft sky to deep ocean depending on your slab. For the deepest blue, prep with the CitrusEtch™ 2-Step Application System first, and many customers sprinkle Miracle-Gro to intensify the hue. From patios to bathrooms, here are real Azure Blue projects.
An Azure Blue EverStain™ sunroom floor — vivid, glossy, and one of a kind.
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Ocean oasis: a nautical garage revamp
An ordinary boat-storage garage became a maritime showpiece with Azure Blue and Shifting Sand. CitrusEtch™ prepped the slab for an optimal reaction, then Miracle-Gro intensified the oceanic blues — paired with warm browns standing in for sandy shores.
Vintage slab revival: a beginner's journey
A husband-and-wife team brought a 1967 interior slab back to life with Azure Blue, Shifting Sand, and Miracle-Gro granules — proof that beginners can get striking results by working at their own pace.
Tips: “Start good, finish good. Sprayer technique gave us control yet not uniform — we didn't dilute in the sprayer, but we hand-sprayed water on the wet stain so it would bleed and spread more. We kept the sprinkled Miracle-Gro granules wet with Azure Blue stain and water. Water seems to help with color variation and absorption on older concrete.”
— DIY Customer
Man cave transformation
A son's old bedroom became a man cave: carpet and padding out, drywall and paint scraped off, CitrusEtch™, then Azure Blue across most of the floor with Miracle-Gro sprinkled for intense accents — and trial-size colors used to pick out the cracks.
Tip: “When working inside, make sure your windows are open when applying the acid stain. A mask will help, but a respirator is a better choice during the 20 minutes of stain application.”
— DIY Customer
Emerald elegance: a living room that kept changing
This novice followed the instructions and first achieved an even azure field — then, over the following days, organic green and black patterns began to emerge. The cause: moisture still evaporating from the slab after the stain and sealer went down, slowly deepening the color into blues, greens, and blacks.
Porch resurgence: 25 years under carpet
A porch carpeted for a quarter century became a one-of-a-kind floor. The hardest part was the mastic — the previous owners had used a huge amount of glue instead of tack strips, so it took a rented cement grinder, and the glue that wouldn't lift was sanded flush and designed around. Azure Blue and Seagrass went down with a pump sprayer, English Red accent lines from a squeeze bottle, and Miracle-Gro to intensify the blue.
The porch before staining, once the carpet and most of the mastic were gone.
Tip: “You may find unanticipated flaws — especially if your floor was previously carpeted or is old. I incorporated those flaws into my design. If this 65-year-old lady can do it, anyone can!”
— DIY Customer
A dual-toned laundry & workout space
On their second acid-stain project, this couple layered Azure Blue with Coffee Brown across a 300 sq. ft. laundry and workout area. The blue went down first and dried about five hours; Coffee Brown followed sparingly, since it's rich and dominant.
— Kimberly Raley
This is the same basement featured in our step-by-step guide: Acid Stain Concrete Basement Floor.
A concrete bathroom floor, refreshed
Azure Blue brought a modern shot of color to this bathroom's concrete floor — durable and easy to maintain, which matters in a wet room.
Updating a 1950s basement floor
A 400 sq. ft. basement floor from the 1950s was prepped with cleaner and a Hard Troweled Floor Pre-Treatment to open up the surface. The concrete turned out fairly non-porous, so the blue came out lighter than expected — an honest reminder that the slab always has a vote.
A barndominium office: wet-on-dry layering
This barndominium became an office with floors stained by the wet-on-dry method — Azure Blue as the base, Coffee Brown layered over it for a marbled effect.
Guest house floor: Miracle-Gro veins
For a game room and guest house, the veining technique with toilet paper plus Miracle-Gro brightened Azure Blue into vivid veins, with Cola blended around them.
The finished veined floor after two coats of wax, fully cured.
More Cola-and-Azure projects are in the Cola gallery.
Sunroom updates
Two sunrooms, two approaches: one carpet-out, sand-and-clean refresh in Azure Blue, and another blending Azure Blue with Cola.
Updating a restaurant floor
A 3,000 sq. ft. restaurant floor was covered with a cement overlay, divided into sections, and stained over seven days — with a costly lesson about skipping the etch.
— DIY Customer
Important: the patina effect outdoors
Azure Blue contains copper, so on exterior concrete it can patina over time — the same natural process that turns copper roofs green. That can add character and depth, but it isn't always what people expect, so test a small area before committing to a full outdoor project.
The patina effect on exterior acid-stained concrete — a natural copper reaction to plan for.
A new-construction patio & porch
On a house less than two years old, concrete blankets used during curing had left marks worth covering. The patio was stained wet-on-wet in Malayan Buff and Azure Blue; the porch got Malayan Buff with slightly diluted Cola, applied wet-on-dry and spread with a broom for a mottled look.
The sealed patio in Azure Blue, Cola, and Malayan Buff.
— DIY Customer
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What's Next
- Blend blue with brown → Cola Gallery
- Seagrass projects → Seagrass Gallery
- See every acid-stain color → Concrete Acid Stain Colors Guide
- How to apply acid stain → How to Apply Acid Stain to Concrete
- Layer two colors → How to Layer Two Acid Stain Colors
- Shop → EverStain™ DIY Kits · Trial Kits
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