Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Red oak floors stained dark gray.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
We love restoration hardware floors but did not have reclaimed wood in hand so we recreated it.
I needed something to neutralize the red in the cedar.
The oil will yellow so the gray that s mixed in won t look right and it will yellow more over time.
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.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
The dark gray will help hide and drown out the red tones.
Old preexisting floors are not the best canvas to sand and refinish in a gray stain.
And your flooring guys are wrong.
Older floors typically have spacing nail and pin holes discoloration etc.
But on the red oak floors it may have a subtle green undertone due to the red oak red and green are opposites.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
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.
Lisa in general no as it s so dark.
Be careful with the wood species.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
I wasn t sure how this custom stain would look over the dark inlays we have in parts of our first floor so i had them sample duraseal silvered gray on the red oak floors next to the stain mix i d used upstairs.
Best to stain gray on a brand new installed floor.
Test on your floor to see.
As part of the refinishing process our client described the look they wanted and we recommended adding a grey stain to the red oak planks during our refinishing process.
Choosing a minwax stain for red oak floors was not easy.
Weathered oak and and classic gray did not cover the red in the cedar enough.
Jacobean was way too dark.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.