Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial.
Minwax dark walnut stain on red oak floors.
We tried jacobean antique brown and royal mahogany.
The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room.
Last is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with.
I tested minwax jacobean stain dark walnut stain special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain.
The other woods took the stain well with more redness coming out of the conditioned sides of the boards.
Or just keeping your existing floor looking as good as new minwax has a full range of.
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2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
When my littles were little we were refinishing our red oak floors i scooped up some dirt in the yard and asked for our floors to be stained close to that color.
I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night.
None are what we have in mind.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
The available colors our floor guy says are out there are simply not what we had a in mind.
I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright.
In fact it looked almost pinky gray.
My dilemma is what stain to go with.
Just met floor guy we tested minwax colors but he is using duraseal.
My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain.
Although no red came through with the pine at all.
We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors.
Jumped and decided on 50 50.
This next picture was also taken last night.
We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.
We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color.
We want a warm brown not reddish dark deep color.
We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.
Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets.