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Red oak floors stained dark walnut.
Richard shows how he applies dark walnut from minwax stain over a red oak 3 1 4 select.
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.
The wood on my floors is red oak.
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Interior trim floors and furniture.
I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night.
Richard has been.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch.
We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.
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.
He uses a lamb applicator with a terry rags after.
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.
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.
This next picture was also taken last night.
We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors.
Dark stained oak has characteristic golden highlights.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
Red and white oak are the most common types used in america with white oak being the cheaper variety.
We have red oak dark walnut stained floors in our living room hall and dining room.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
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 use it for just about anything.
The poly finish is satin.
Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.