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.
Espresso stain on red oak floors.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
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Is there a stain color we could mix with the gray to offset the pink tone.
Not only does the hardness effect how a wood will accept stain harder woods tend to accept stains better and more evenly but also the natural color of the wood.
Hi need recommendation asap re floor stain for red oak floors.
As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look.
Four colors from the left 1.
Red oak with jacobean stain.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Ebony 2 espresso 3.
If you have red oak one trick you can use is to take fruitwood stain and add other stain colors to it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Ebony is too dark espresso is a tad too gray jacobean is a tad too brown and dark walnut is too old school.
Some gorgeous more purple inspired stain colours espresso or walnut look woods.
I am refinishing my red oak hardwood floors and would like to do a gray stain.
Can you provide any insight as to which one i should choose minwax.
Red oak floor with a jacobean stain.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.
The wood types we chose also are vastly different ranging from extremely soft birch to hard red oak with undertones all over the map.
But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right.
Will the floors take on a pink tone.
Refinishing red oak floors in my house.
Anyone have any ex.
I hope you have some left over wood to play with until you can get the color you want.
New wall colors all have grey undertones.