Red Oak Grey Stained Oak Hardwood Floors

Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.

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. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot. Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly.

If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.

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. Also look a. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.

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. Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in. 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. 22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.

They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted. Ginger if you have red oak and want to do some form of gray you will either need to bleach the floors first or choose a darker gray.