Special Walnut Floor Stain On Red Oak

The first thing that happened once we closed on our new house was to get the dingy ambered oak floors refinished and stained.
Special walnut floor stain on red oak. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color. The poly finish is satin. It looks too light too red and too washed out. Once the two stains were down my decision was easy.
Red mahogany 225. We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. Our red oak floors really absorbed the stain colors making the jacobean blend far too dark for what we were looking for but the special walnut blend was absolutely perfect. The wood on my floors is red oak.
Hardwood floor stain colors walnut hardwood flooring hardwood stairs oak floor stains hardwood installation red oak floors austin homes flooring options flooring ideas. 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. I am including several different pictures of the finished product which turned out even better than i had imagined. On red oak it just falls flat.
Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest. So my favorites are dark walnut stain and the mixture of special walnut stain and dark walnut. Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors. Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch. Saved by 804 painting 804 floors llc. People also love these ideas. Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
Why we chose the provincial over other popular wood stains. I wanted to avoid orange undertones. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. I don t really know what i mean by that but it seems to have no life to it and it appears to have a slight green undertone to 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. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. See more ideas about floor stain floor stain colors floor colors. I also ruled out the special walnut.