Special Walnut Stain On Red Oak Hardwood Floors

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.
Special walnut stain on red oak hardwood floors. My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain. The first thing that happened once we closed on our new house was to get the dingy ambered oak floors refinished and stained. The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room. 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.
Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest. The wood on my floors is red oak. Testing minwax stain colors for my red oak hardwood floor. We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.
In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red. I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. See more ideas about floor stain floor stain colors floor colors.
Special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain. On january 17. Why we chose the provincial over other popular wood stains. I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
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. The poly finish is satin. My dilemma is what stain to go with.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color. We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. 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.
We are days away from needing to select a stain for our red oak hardwoods and i m going bonkers. 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. I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
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