Natural Red Oak Floors No Stain

Red oak flooring has a highly detailed wood grain adding a natural earth y vibe to your kitchen or bath.

Natural red oak floors no stain. This is my living room you can see the red oak floors behind the chair. We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net. The builder is having his flooring contractor make some samples for me. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.

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. They were similar but i still liked the custom fruitwood country white stain mix better. The are more of a medium color not a really light color. The color of your floor sets the tone for the room.

I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck. Get a closer match to other. When you love the look of natural wood red oak is one type of flooring that can hold up well to clear coats because of its color variations. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.

We are refinishing existing 2 1 4 red oak floors that are currently a darker stain and completely replacing the floors in some rooms so we have to stick with red oak. It was the wood of choice for hardwood flooring and still is. Well i want to see what the natural finish on the white oak floors will look like. See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.

Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. 22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators. As far as the paint color on the walls this is the model home. Magickngm from your pictures i am pretty sure you have white oak floors.

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. We have 3 coats of poly on them no stain. This post is sponsored by minwax. 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.

Homeowners love red oak for its many benefits. The beautiful grain really shines through the stain. Like a fingerprint no board looks the same. 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.

I wasn t sure how this custom stain would look over the dark inlays we have in parts of our first floor so i had them sample duraseal silvered gray on the red oak floors next to the stain mix i d used upstairs.