The metallic for people who are not sure about metallic
Metallic epoxy has a reputation problem: a lot of what people have seen online is a teal and gold lava field that would exhaust anyone living with it. Pewter Storm exists at the other end. The ground is charcoal, the movement is pearl and silver, and the overall read is a polished stone with weather in it. It gives a room the depth that makes metallic worth paying for without asking the room to be about the floor, which is why it is the blend we recommend to most residential clients who want metallic in a space they actually use daily.
How the movement is made
Metallic pigment is suspended in a clear resin and poured, then worked while it is still moving: rollers to lay it out, a leaf blower to open cells and push the pigment into drifts, solvent misted from a spray bottle to break the surface and create the fine veining. Every one of those actions is a judgement made in the two hours before the resin gels, and none of them can be undone. That is why metallic costs $12 to $18 per square foot rather than $8, and it is why the same crew pouring the same blend twice produces two different floors.
Living with it
Pewter Storm hides everyday dust better than any other metallic because the pearl movement is fine-grained and continuous rather than pooled into large flat cells. There is always some visual texture underfoot, so nothing has a clean field to sit against. Footprints on a high-gloss metallic are a real thing in any blend, though, and if the room takes bare feet or dogs, the matte or satin topcoat option removes almost all of it at the cost of some of the depth.