Red Oak Floors No Stain
So we went with bona 1 2 medium brown and 1 2 classic grey on our red oak floors.
Red oak floors no stain. I mentioned that i think we want to stain them to obtain a more light b. How to stain a floor white flisol home description. They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted. But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right.
Adventures in staining my red oak hardwood floors products process description. So before i get into the oak stain colors and results i thought it would be helpful to provide a few tips on choosing a hardwood floor stain. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species. Staining red oak hardwood floors 6 stain on partial floor in entryway and music via.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head. He said the current finish on our floors was a cheap minwax finish. I had the first flooring guy over last night to give me a quote. Pre finished floors are more expensive in the beginning but the finish tends to last longer than those applied onsite to unfinished floors.
Random width live sawn white oak hardwood flooring stain color antique brown top coated. It is not hard to observe why prefinished floors have gotten so common. Jun 4 2017 explore jody barnes s board light stain or no stain oak floors followed by 117 people on pinterest. See more ideas about oak floors red oak floors oak floor stains.
Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly. As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. Pre finished red oak has up to 10 layers of sealer that. They were similar but i still liked the custom fruitwood country white stain mix better.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through. Also look a. The floors right now are a golden oak color. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
I wasn t sure how this custom stain would look over the dark inlays we have in parts of our first floor so i had them sample duraseal silvered gray on the red oak floors next to the stain mix i d used upstairs. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. We are having our floors redone soon.