Your kitchen floor sees plenty of traffic and in a home with kids and pets, spills, dirt and a few slightly chipped spots are all too common. Maintaining your kitchen floor can be an absolute challenge at times and the more polished it is, harder it becomes. In such a scenario, concrete offers us a welcome alternative. Concrete floors offer a multitude of advantages both functionally and aesthetically. And the best part is that concrete floors are no longer considered ?sterile? or cold. Thanks to a spurt in industrial style kitchens and greater interest in cost-effective interiors, concrete has now become a trendy choice!Contemporary kitchen with tiled backsplash and concrete floor [From: Andre Tchelistcheff Architects / Seong Kwon Photography]Giving your kitchen floor a concrete finish can be achieved easily of you still in the design phase of your new kitchen. The task gets a touch trickier for those looking to replace their existing kitchen floor with concrete sheen. Here, you need to strip away the additional layers on top to find the concrete base below and then you can add another additional layer on top along with the right finish to achieve the desired look. Either way, you will have a kitchen floor that is durable, sustainable, affordable and ?cool?. Here are a few gorgeous kitchens that showcase the beauty of concrete floors ? Modern Kitchens with Concrete FloorsThe idea of a modern kitchen and the seemingly traditional notion of a rough concrete floor might seem ...