Dark Stained Red Oak Floors
Effects of different stains on red oak wood.
Dark stained red oak floors. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. A dark floor provides visual grounding in a room with.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. I have also uploaded the video from my youtube channel i hope this he. Red and white oak are the most common types used in america with white oak being the cheaper variety.
This post is sponsored by minwax. 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. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Dark stained oak has characteristic golden highlights. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. See more ideas about red oak floors oak floors red oak.
A few weeks ago on youtube i wanted to see the effects of different stains on white pine and poplar well this time i used common red oak that you can buy at lowes or home depot. 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. 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.
Feb 26 2017 explore joanne lee s board red oak floors on pinterest. You can use it for just about anything. Oak takes a stain very well and we can stain from a light color all the way up to dark colors as you can see us using in the photo below but if you have a naturally dark exotic wood floor like ipe or jatoba then we will strongly suggest that they should not be stained for two reasons.