J. Wade Sheppard is a "boutique builder" so involved with a home's finer points that he only builds a few houses a year.

Sheppard, who owns Redbud Signature Homes, is constructing an Edmond home with 8-foot columns around the master bathtub, and a basement - with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchenette - with stained-concrete floors.

Walk in a new house today and it's not unusual to find concrete floors, colored with an acid stain and "scored" with a masonry saw to create decorative patterns.

For the first time, builder Bart Everett is including stained-concrete floors in homes he is building for the market, not just customs built to buyers' preferences.