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Red oak floors with dark walnut stain.
Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials.
The wood on my floors is red oak.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
We have red oak dark walnut stained floors in our living room hall and dining room.
This next picture was also taken last night.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
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.
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We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
Our drifast stain collection offers a wide range of colors from contemporary traditional and classic.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
I would like to install some type of hardwood floor in the kitchen but would prefer to complement our current hardwood floor vs match it.
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.
Do you have any suggestions with regard to type of wood and stain.
Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial.
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 flooring guys ended up mixing 2 parts natural 1 part provincial.
The poly finish is satin.
However oak does have a very dramatic grain of the wood which can sometimes give even the darkest stain a streaky effect or the look of highlights.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.