Hi flooring girl i so glad to stumble on your blog.
Red oak gray hardwood floor stain.
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.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
We are refinishing existing 2 1 4 red oak floors that are currently a darker stain and completely replacing the floors in some rooms so we have to stick with red oak.
There are a few methods.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
Dark walnut 2716.
To minimize the orange effect that comes with aging oil based polyurethane protective coats we used a water based polyurethane to protect the floors.
I m having my brand new red oak floor stain in a few days.
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22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
Best to use white oak instead of red oak.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
I have learned so much about flooring with all the information on your blog.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
I had searched high and low for pictures of duraseal silvered gray on red oak hardwood floors without much luck so in case you ve done the same hopefully this post comes up in your google search.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
I really wanted a gray floor but due to the nature of the red tone in red oak floor is very hard to achieve the color.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly.