The available colors our floor guy says are out there are simply not what we had a in mind.
Minwax dark walnut stain on red oak floors.
Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets.
We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.
My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain.
We want a warm brown not reddish dark deep color.
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.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
This next picture was also taken last night.
Minwax has the perfect wood stain color for every project.
I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects.
None are what we have in mind.
Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial.
Jumped and decided on 50 50.
The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room.
Although no red came through with the pine at all.
Last is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with.
Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.
Or just keeping your existing floor looking as good as new minwax has a full range of.
The other woods took the stain well with more redness coming out of the conditioned sides of the boards.
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 tried jacobean antique brown and royal mahogany.
Just met floor guy we tested minwax colors but he is using duraseal.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
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.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat.
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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.
In fact it looked almost pinky gray.
I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch.