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Handmade concrete floors. Almost everywhere in the world you will find the most basic of floor materials, lime and earth, mixed, pounded, and watered to create a robust, long lasting, sustainable flooring. In Japan these floors are called "tataki" (三和土). 
The floors are traditionally used in entrances, on covered walkways, drive ways, stables, dirt rooms, kitchens, etc. They can range from the very austere and relatively polished...
...to the old and rustic, with generations of wear and tear, but charmingly simple and obviously well loved and well maintained.
Unlike modern concrete flooring, tataki floors will age with character, reflecting its position and use, from well kept entrances to moss grown garden paths. Just seeing these floors you get a feeling for the people who use them, and the space they are in.
Since the floors were made from local materials each floor will bear the immediate character of the local landscape and climate. It is not an easy job, but the materials are friendly and the work is forgiving allowing the entire family a chance to help, unlike modern flooring.
he floor has to be laid in one day, and consists of three layers going from the rough aggregate to the polished top-layer. You simply get as many hands as needed to lay it in one day. Amateurs welcome.
The next time you need an intermediary floor for your house or stable or barn or garage consider making one by hand together with your family, rather than just pouring a concrete floor, exponentially more expensive, bad for the environment, difficult adapt, impossible to recycle.
