Red Oak Grey Stained Oak Hardwood Floors

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.
Red oak grey stained oak hardwood floors. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. Also look a. Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring. So we went with bona 1 2 medium brown and 1 2 classic grey on our red oak floors.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring. 22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. 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.
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. They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted. Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors. 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. If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer. Be careful with the wood species. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly.