Special Walnut On Red Oak Floor

See the before and after of our red oak hardwood floors and find out which floor stain we chose.
Special walnut on red oak floor. My contractor is putting in new red oak floor in my bedroom and refinishing the existing red oak floors in the living room kitchen its a small 650 sq ft apt. On red oak it just falls flat. Hardwood floor stain colors walnut hardwood flooring hardwood stairs oak floor stains hardwood installation red oak floors austin homes flooring options flooring ideas more information. If you re worried about your floors turning out too dark then provincial is a really great choice.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch. Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone. Provincial is a warm medium toned brown. In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red.
It looks too light too red and too washed out. The poly finish is satin. That is before i actually saw the stains on the floor. Saved by 804 painting 804 floors llc.
So provincial it was. So my favorites are dark walnut stain and the mixture of special walnut stain and dark walnut. The wood on my floors is red oak. It was missing that warm and rustic tone we wanted.
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. I also ruled out the special walnut. 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. Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color. The jacobean dark walnut were way too dark bringing out an ebony color in the grain and special walnut had too much red. In person special walnut ended up being too cold and dark.
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. We do live. The previous color on the floor was a deep ebony i don t know the actual color from the previous owners that i would like to replicate but maybe a little lighter. Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
I am including several different pictures of the finished product which turned out even better than i had imagined. We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest. See more ideas about floor stain floor stain colors floor colors.