creative concrete floor finishes

[Jennifer Rysdam]

Does anyone have any creative concrete flooring solutions to share? My own basement has been flooded/leaked 3 times in the 3 years we have been here due to local flooding (Southwest MN). We fix where the flood happened and then it happens differently. Our whole town has flooding right now and our flooded yard turned our window well into a storm drain right into our finished basement. We just pulled up all the laminate and dried it out. We'll be reinforcing yard drainage and sealing up around the well better to not allow the overflow in the future. We have decided to just finish the concrete and be done with the mess. It's DryLocked and we are thinking of painting it and then finishing it with one of those high gloss sealants. Any other ideas out there? We want it to look great but don't want to take any more hits to the budget.  Thanks :)