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Red oak grey stained oak hardwood 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.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Be careful with the wood species.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
So we went with bona 1 2 medium brown and 1 2 classic grey on our red oak floors.
I had searched high and low for pictures of duraseal silvered gray on red oak hardwood floors without much luck so in case you ve done the same hopefully this post comes up in your google search.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot.
Old red oak plank floors refinished with grey stain ortega april 16 2018 0 comments in wood floor refinishing by admin dan s floor store was contracted to refinish the 1 1 2 wide solid old red oak plank floors in this circa 1950 home in the ortega neighborhood of jacksonville florida.