Sanded Down Red Oak Floors With Weathered Oak Stain
I refinished our kitchen table with it and love the subtle gray tone that it has.
Sanded down red oak floors with weathered oak stain. My wife wants a cherry stain the oak floors in the rest of the house that had hardwoods were done with on a red oak floor. I have colonial maple color kitchen cabinets but dont want to continue with the country type look my style is modern. Reason being weathered oak pulls out so many colors including gray anyway. Can you suggest which stain and finish you would use on red oak.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through. On both red and white oak it carries slightly tones whereas on rosewood like my table or pine it allows a slightly grayer driftwood tone. The stain looks very different on other types of wood. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Happy i didn t go with any of the gray floors. Weathered oak has been a huge favorite stain to work with. Weathered oak on 2 red oak flooring is gorgeous. Thanks for the compliment and for your feed back it s much welcomed.
Also keep in mind that the bleach only affects the top layer of the wood. If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. At that point the entire house will be wood flooring. If you end up using this method to bleach red oak and you feel like there is still too much red you can repeat steps 2 4 until you are happy with the color.
We are going to weave together the old floor with a new red oak floor. So if you end up sanding the wood a lot you could reveal red by removing too much of the bleached layer. 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. How to refinish solid oak flooring.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color. We are sanding and staining our red oak floors in several weeks. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. 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. Taking pics tomorrow a little delayed. 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.
Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood. I have 3 teenagers and 2 dogs.