Best to test a sample of each first to see which one you like best. Those floors from the 1950s and up to the 2000s turned that way because oil-based polyurethane was used. My top recommendation is Bona Traffic HD. I want them very dark but not a shoe polish black. You should use a regular stain. This product is formulated to seal, color and provide exceptional durability when used on bare wood or masonry surfaces. Please help! Ive seen DuraSeal Special Walnut on our actual sample boards from our hickory, for example, but the floors in links here look a little darker and warmer to me. We heard that we can just put tinted finish on it, without staining it. That will keep it dark but add the brown that you want. The color is a mix of 75% Ebony and 25% Mahogany on red oak. I am refinishing the floors of my newly purchased 1965 ranch home. we decided to refinish it. We hired a well know local flooring company to sand and stain our red oak living room floor to match our adjacent white oak dining room floor. 2) My floors are red oak and I would like a nice medium to dark brown with no red/orange. We were thinking 1/2 special walnut/ 1/2 chestnut. Have a look at this series of posts I wrote here for some more in-depth info: With Bona finishes, yes you need the sealer and then the finish. Im going to be refinishing floors on Friday (May 24) and still struggling to find a stain color. You can read more about the best brands of water based polyurethane in this article. I asked you about this earlier as I have red oak floors and was concerned about the outcome. $29.99. If they do a sealer, do that as first coat and next 2 coats Bona Traffic HD. I dont sorry. Ive read about wiping down with mix of water and denatured alcohol, mineral spirits, light sandingour floor guys said wed void our warranty by putting the water over oil stain, so Im anxious to get it right. Walking With Dinosaurs Stream, They were water popped, too. Dura Seal Quick Coat Stains are a premium quality penetrating finish that can be topcoated in 2 to 4 hours. The basic answer is it depends on the finish system you use. We used Rustic Beige on our red oak floors. Rustic Oak MW1122 Wood Finish Water-Based Semi-Transparent Color Stain Semi-Transparent . Thank you for posting! After all, thats what partners are for. Ill be in touch if I have any further questions though. Any input you might have would be very, very appreciated! Your insight is amazing and so valuable! Our plan for the new cabinets is all uppers and lowers will be Sherwin Williams Repose Grey with Sherwin Williams Iron Ore as a glaze in the crevice/designs on the doors. Thanks! Thoughts? Have an older 1924 home with lots of stained trim and cabinets..darker color..likely mahagony or dark walnutlikely, not cherry, since not as reddish tint. My house is a mix of oaks and cherries and I dont want the floor to try to match anything. The fireplace mantel, bar area will match the bar in the Iron Ore/charcoal color. Will most people who want a plank floor want it naturally colored? Its possible that the floors are sanded enough or that youre wiping the stain off too much. I was very inspired by the lighter wood floors from the beginning and the counter and cabinet choice was in line with that inspiration. Fast forward to present situation only to know that the Hardwood floor is of red oak and any lighter stain will bring out the red/pink tones. Thanks for the offer of help as well. Do you have a suggestion of a stain that we can put on floors that have been sanded that can blend these three rooms together two rooms open up to one another the third room has no issue. Warm Regards, Zo-An. If you want to go with a hardwax oil, then you have the option to use a stain under the oil (for OSMO Polyx-Oil and Pallmann Magic Oil), or go with a pre-tinted colored finish. On the link below youll find the pics (the very first one is when it had the lighter flooring before I purchased the house). You helped to calm me down. I mixed %50 ebony with 50% white. https://ap.rdcpix.com/279006404/697579fce091f1f609ef6fe6978ecf06l-m11r.jpg. That may be close to what youre looking for. Love your blog!! The worst that can happen is you dont like it and you choose another blend. Check out Duraseal's new gray stains for a modern farmhouse style. Thanks. Having floors stained 75% dark walnut and 25% english chestnut. DuraSeal Quick Coat Stain is the most trusted hardwood flooring stain by contractors. On the other hand, maybe you have a more common type of wood like red or white oak. Do you think it will work well for me? But if you want it light theres a couple of options. If you go with white cabinets, you can pretty much have any color on the floor and it will look good. For your dark expresso color try mixing Ebony with Jacobean or Dark Walnut like you said. & if go with cestnut, do we go with red oak or white oak? He says that doing a second coat of any stain wont darken the appearance. I like the look of a lighter color for our small space. I am not sure if you are still responding to this blog, but I have a real problem I am hoping you can help me with We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color. If not you may have to get a custom blend mixed. DuraSeal Weathered Oak Stain. Otherwise, choose a mid to dark gray to drown out the pink. I know from experience now how much the wood changes- I am afraid of it progressing to a purple or burgundy if I try a walnut or a Jacobean. The temperature has dropped here to the 40s at night, so I dont know how long it will take before going to the poly phase which Im doing the mid range shine not flat and not high gloss. As you found out first hand, the guys out there that are cheap are usually cheap for a reason. Start with Natural to make it lighter and then experiment from there. Help! I was worried it might be too dark and when sampleing they mixed in natural to lighten it, but then the red showed more. They may be able to be fixed, or worse case, just replaced. And, your flooring guys are wrong. is one more red or yellow than the other? Can you give me the specifics on the stain used called Golden Brown??? Now, over the last 2-3 years, weve been getting more requests to mix the gray blends with browns and beige to get greiges or brown grays. Hello Tadas, I have new 7 plank Select White Oak that was stained with water based Duraseal Coffee Brown. To be honest, it will most likely not be dark enough still if you try this. 5. Do you have another suggetion to a lighter non red stain? As a result, it is possible that the stain and/or poly may peel (over time) and it certainly wont last as long. Architectural Specifications English FAQs|Privacy|Terms of Use|Contact Us. Best regards. Hardwood Floor Stain Colors Hardwood Floors Oak Flooring Floor Colors Red Oak Floors Kitchen Colour Schemes Kitchen Color 2-1/4" red oak, stained 50% Duraseal Coffee Brown and 50% Duraseal Ebony stain mixture. Can you help? You will have to test the stains on your floors to decide. We are looking for duraseal options that look contemporary and fresh. Yes Acacia can be stained. I dont want any reddish hues and the dark stains made it look grainy and sort of dirty. Hi Tadas, I recently bought a condo. I am in the process of staining my red oak hardwood floors. Fir looks great with either an oil-based finish or natural stain and waterbased. Are the floors quite old? Any advice on how they should prep the floors in order to prevent peeling? Ever heard of such a thing? Im guessing it must have been an oil based finish applied because water based wouldnt make it darker. Count on us to deliver innovative products that help you do your jobs better and more efficiently, with great looking results and no call backs. Once you had decided on a color you were happy with we would then start the job. Hi Tadas. Fans will help if you have some handy too. Like a darker gray look. There are many reactive products available to do this in different shades. My question is that I just had red oak flooring put down in my master bedroom and upstairs hallway. refinishing dark floors. We(my wife) selected rustic beige. Tiffany If that is the look you want w/ red oak flooring, the way to achieve it is to first bleach the floors to drown out the pink. Is it possible that the 60-year-old stain pigment left submerged in the cracks has bled out via the polyurethane? what do you suggest. we just installed red oak flooring want a medium brown no red or orange. So the floor guy mixed grey with Cherry. Always best to get a small can to test on your flooring to make sure you like to color before committing to the entire floor. Its unique formulation provides a surface that can be topcoated in 2 hours. What do you think? If I recall that floor was stained with a mix of 75% Ebony and 25% Mahogany. I have read that duraseal spice brown or antique brown might get the desired result. The last one will be the easiest. Rustic Beige Quart . Question is what would you recommend to put on it. The way I see it from my very limited view, you have a couple of choices. We are definitely trying :). To keep the light natural look I would go with a commercial grade waterbased finish. Thats just the nature of wood. it didnt give me a nice grey. 100% True black is very hard to maintain and shows every bit of dirt. Make sure your hardwood refinishing guy provides lots of samples for you to choose from. Very disappointed in that. Furniture will be neutrals with grey or blue accent pieces and chocolate brown dining room set. Do you have a favorite brown gray stain color? If it was after the floors were stained it could be that the excess stain wasnt removed before applying the finish. Weve sanded dark stained floors back to natural before and never had a problem. Thank you! Hi Tadas; Does Bona Provincial have a orange / red undertone? Also make sure you really buff off all the excess oil otherwise it will look like it was painted. Hi, I am refinishing my staircase which is red oak and want a warm brown color. I want to then finish all of them the same stain. Have you ever worked or seen pine with denim coloring? Add to Cart Add to Cart This rich blend Debbie Gartner | The Flooring Girl White Oak Rustic 4mm Wear Layer Engineered Prefinished Flooring. Or 75/25. Hope you can get it sorted out to your satisfaction. As far as the door I would stain or paint it a different color. But in the flooring industry, those are referred to as finishes. Is the peeling happening after a recoat or after the floors were stained? The floors are mostly red oak. :-) YAY!!! Our Company Stain Gallery Colors are shown on White Oak. but, you could mix in some white (from Bona) or you could try Nordicseal rather than Natural Seal. These are some pics of wood stains I had in my library for reference. The latest modern look is grey stain, some with pre-treatments like fuming etc. Talk with the floor guy about the splitting planks. Maybe I should do a more in depth blog post about this down the road. You can read about that process here: https://napervillehardwood.com/blog/what-is-water-popping/ Apply stain one line at the time and start wiping after 5-7 minutes if using quick dry stain and 10-12 min if using regular dry stain. Im sure they would have no problem water popping the floor for you either (unless they are extremely under-qualified, but Im sure theyre not or you wouldnt have hired them.). At this very moment were salvaging a floor that a professional company messed up big time. The actual color can be seen closer to the door in the strip of light. black in some areas & a beautiful dry ebony in other He generously painted on the ebony stain , & did not wipe is this OK ? Yes any product like that will darken the floor. If you like a stain but something still feels off, you can mix it with other stains to get the right look. Cool white kitchen, with a stunning statuary white marble island. Not sure about the fir. Several, even the Pure- seem to tint the walnut a bit reddish- which we dont want. Some violets will over correct and turn purple under artificial light, so the safest bet in the hands of the lightly experienced is a stain with a green cast. I would try half and half first and if thats too red for you try 3/4 walnut and 1/4 chestnut. Here is the extensive colored oils Rubio Monocoat has available If they are there in the winter and you fill them, the floor wont have any room for expansion when the humidity rises in the summer. I did ask them to put a small sample of dark walnut in the area with thin floors and it looked completely different than in the kitchen and almost had a yellow hue. And lastly yes we do install for select customers. Thanks. I am making some 8 red oak plank floors for our office and have had others show interest in buying some. Our current house is a ranch, the main level is Red Chestnut throughout bedrooms, living room, and dining room. Thank you for sharing! Here are the links: http://www.houzz.com/photos/3977713/Custom-Dark-Stained-Hickory-Flooring-traditional-bedroom-other-metro, http://www.houzz.com/photos/1189654/Kitchen-modern-kitchen-cincinnati. I have no fear in that aspect(or even the machineing). We are very beginners here). One of the reactive products we use is Rubio Monocoat Fumed. My son and I are redoing a cottage it has pine floors. As for the finish I have what I believe is a matte finish now not to shiny like a high gloss. Plus you will lose more wood from your floors which is a big issue if theyre old already. See a selection of DuraSeal stains on white oak hardwood flooring. When it comes to gray stains, you always want to use water borne polyurethane. Also when looking at that floor remember youre not seeing a real representation of the actual color. . You can use dyes as well as stain if you want a darker floor. Hi Im having a hard time deciding whether to stain my floors. Required fields are marked *, Please answer the question below before submitting your comment: two = eight .hide-if-no-js{display:none!important}. That floor looks great. 3. Yes they can be stained, but it can be tricky staining tropical wood because of the natural oils in them. I can send pictures, Sorry to hear of your troubles. Satiny sheen durability when used on bare Wood or masonry surfaces rich Old-world Character our Reclaimed Oak Collections are best. Should I do ebony, jacobeen, antique walnut, ebony with some red mahogany? Seems like the good brands of stain do not carry it. The flooring is Omni Wood Floors LLC-3.35" character grade white oak. Jackie The only way that youll be able to achieve a whitewashed look on red oak is to bleach first. May be better to ask a local flooring professional who deals with this regularly. I think I may be too late with this reply sorry. We always do this hand have never had an issue with white lines. Rustic Beige stain over red oak,still Final coat to go today and moving to the next one #rusticbeige #interiordesign #interiordesigner #hardwoodfloos #customhouses #realtorraleigh #realestate #customhomes #downtownraleigh #raleigh #carync #wakeforestnc @ Raleigh, North Carolina +5 DuraSeal Royal Mahogany Stain. The sheen of the finish wont effect the color. We only ever apply one coat of stain. These Colors on your floor with our visualizer Oak ; Coverage: 500! As you can see providing samples is a very important step in choosing a stain color, otherwise you find yourself where you are right now. It seems every picture I see of floors that I like is a custom stain that was done on site. In order to match the various colourings in the grains, I thought of investing in several different colours of putty. Lets go through a few steps to see what your decision should be. So.the only way to REALLY see the pink would be to put down a coat of poly over the finish. Other popular choices are Dark Walnut, Classic Gray, and Early American. It has natural oak flooring with that typical yellowish hue. When we repair water or pet damaged areas in a floor we usually remove the damaged wood and replace it with new wood. Is that true? Im having a hard time finding it. So the stain color is a very big commitment. If theyre quite wide then you could use wood flour cement or even hot glue to close them up. Just so youre realistic and dont get your hopes up too high its pretty much impossible to make oak look like exotic wood because of grain patterns and different colorations in the same piece of wood. May I ask, what is the type of wood and stain color used in the picture with you in it at the very top? The stain had been drying for 4 days so it should be cured. We just had local (Northern Wisconsin) red pine floors installed. We have seen quite a few .kitchens with this combination over the years. Duraseal dries MUCH FASTER. If Jacobean and Medium Brown are to dark why dont you try blending them with Natural to lighten them up but still keep the tones you want. Hi, we are in the process of laying white oak in our home and I am wanting a medium brown color (want a warm feeling). What type of topcoat am I looking for (shoes off, no pet, no kids household) I read your blog but didnt see anything about avoiding the white line syndrome. You can read more about the different types of finishes here: https://napervillehardwood.com/blog/how-to-choose-hardwood-floor-finish-part-1/. Floor stain: Oak wood with the mixture of DuraSeal spice brown stain and DuraSeal coffee brown stain Window trims and baseboards: cloud white 967 Paint - Benjamin Moore & Co Fireplace granite: bianco antico granite Floor to ceiling natural stone mosaic tile around fireplace: ErthCOVERINGS Cream Quartzite 40F. Hi Tadas I wish I had read your blog before I refinished my floors. Photography by Danny . You wont be able to stain again anyway as it looks like there is already a finish coat on the floors. You also mention that the materials you used cannot be used anymore. Apr 17, 2020 - Modern gray, greige and brown-gray stain shades for hardwood flooring. That might explain the raised boards. I have a builder installed engineered Acacia 3/4 inch. I would like to stain it in a Jacobean Blend with gray 75-25, Dark Walnut or Espresso but I am not seeing many examples out there of Acacia being used or re-stained. Does special walnut minwax over red oak select leave a medium brown overall look without seeing so much graining? Our visualizer something still feels off, you can mix it with other stains to get the right look and. Now, we have Rustic Gray and Warm Gray which mix in some beige with gray to get a Greige (or a warmer gray). But for me, I like white trim. And, then on the other end, we have Aged Barrel and Heritage Brown which integrate dark browns and ebony with gray. Hi Tadas, Your site is fantastic and hope you can advise us. Can you help? I think two colors should be fine. Thanks for any advice. What do you recommend? I love the dark floorsbut I dont want it so dark that it looks black. Huge Inventory, Same Day Shipping. Duraseal Fruitwood/Country White Custom Stain (left) // Duraseal Silvered Gray (right) We had already refinished our upstairs and 2 staircases in this house when we first bought it and at that point I had chosen a custom Duraseal stain mix of about 60% fruitwood and 40% country white . What stain/ color would you recommend for a whitewashed oak look? I have red oak floors and want to choose a color and finish that will show very little of the wood grain. We are going to install hardwood flooring (select oak). Thanks, you have so much helpful information! im in the same predicament right now. You could go natural and use a water-based finish with good UV protection so it doesnt go the yellowy-orange color you have right now. 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