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Dark walnut stain on red oak floors.
The flooring guys ended up mixing 2 parts natural 1 part provincial.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
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.
You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons.
I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night.
Blues greens so i say go with your gut and for dark walnut.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
I tested minwax jacobean stain dark walnut stain special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain.
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The poly finish is satin.
I had dark walnut stained red oak floors in my previous house.
Do you have any suggestions with regard to type of wood and stain.
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.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
I would like to install some type of hardwood floor in the kitchen but would prefer to complement our current hardwood floor vs match it.
We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.
This next picture was also taken last night.
Sep 23 2018 explore kellie wallace s board dark walnut floors on pinterest.
The wood on my floors is red oak.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
Special walnut is one of the go to brown stains that isn t too dark.
I tend to view special walnut as a lighter brown stain.
We have red oak dark walnut stained floors in our living room hall and dining room.