2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
Minwax dark walnut stain on red oak floors.
We want a warm brown not reddish dark deep color.
The other woods took the stain well with more redness coming out of the conditioned sides of the boards.
Minwax has the perfect wood stain color for every project.
I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright.
Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects.
My dilemma is what stain to go with.
I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night.
We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color.
My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain.
Just met floor guy we tested minwax colors but he is using duraseal.
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.
The available colors our floor guy says are out there are simply not what we had a in mind.
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.
The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room.
Jumped and decided on 50 50.
Last is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with.
This next picture was also taken last night.
We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors.
Or just keeping your existing floor looking as good as new minwax has a full range of.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
None are what we have in mind.
Although no red came through with the pine at all.
Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.
He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch.
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 tried jacobean antique brown and royal mahogany.
Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets.
In fact it looked almost pinky gray.
Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial.
We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.