Learn how your comment data is processed. Try using the double stained technique and these special sealers and finishes. Great idea! Bona makes a sealer and finish that have white dye in them and don’t have ambering agent in the ingredients. You may pick four colors at checkout and we will send you actual wood samples to view in your home free of charge. Maybe the glaze would look better in actuality than the picture. I love your posts. Its unique formulation provides a surface that can be topcoated in two hours. This flooring is known for its very warm tones that can look reddish or yellowish, and going neutral with your color scheme is the key to offsetting that. Formulated to … Just my honest opinion. Put down beautiful wood just to paint over it? I agree with Krist that it’s more effective to stain the base coat vs altering the color by laying a colored top coat. For finishing sanding, depending on the color, 150 – 180 grit is all you need. If it is not too much work, I would also consider bleaching the floors before whitewashing because it worked so well on the pantry countertops. There’s much more to it so peep this! Most flooring companies will only stain a floor once. I was thinking you might use the same technique as you used on the pantry countertops….that turned out beautifully! Go see an actual floor that you want to have. It holds up much better than Varethane ( we used that to stain my staircase, painter did it) and it not durable at all. Could it change the finished product? I’m so happy that you are going to make a decision after one coat… as I’m concerned that a second coat might eliminate the lovely grain that seems to show so beautifully in the one coat sample. I think the one coat with green tint allows the grain of the wood to come through, so I look forward to seeing the ‘bigger picture’ on Monday. Red Oak 215. You are on the right track! This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. (Hint: Red) To give each wood the best chance at sporting stain, we started our study with Minwax’s Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner. Some people say just used watered down paint. so glad you decided to go with the white, for projects in a work shop it isn’t part of your house and should be as durable as possible. Sample looks more painted rather than white washed (at the moment). Right now, I am really liking the two coats on the sample, though. Bleached oak and blond oak are prettier and don’t obscure the natural beauty of the grain. good luck!! Also, in my opinion, the two versions with added paint make the wood look like the color is sitting on top of the wood rather than *being* the wood. It works! It is a bit more work but at the end it does not look like just a paint on the wood floor. Option 1, yes is pink in a bad way. At least I do know for sure that adding green tint will cut the pink undertones. I ALSO thought you would be doing the bleaching thing. So, you trying to stain your red oak floors white? (After a lot of turmoil in your heart)! Use 1/2 Country white, 1/4 classic grey, 1/4 weathered oak. The next day we applied the second layer of stain. The best white stain we’ve found is Bona White.. Easier to control the color that way, especially since the top coat is clear. I thought dark floors would look great in your studio space- they would create a nice ground to all the lightness and brightness. To get the pinkish tint out of red oak – use double staining techniques and special sealers and finishes. Personally, when it comes to a white glaze, I wouldn’t go there. So for the second sample, I added just a bit of green tint to the stain to try to cut the red undertones of both the stain and the floor. Staining Red Oak Floors White - Kansas City - Hardwood Floor … Minwax ... Minwax ® Water Based Wood Stain colours made with the White Tint Base. Due to variations in screens and lighting, we do not require you to make a final stain selection when you order. I think the versions with paint added will end up looking very splotchy … excess paint will unavoidably pile up where your brushstroke ends, and there will be lots of brush strokes. Antique Paint & Stain Technique – Farmhouse Table | Mama Moose Finish: Waterborne Polyurethane. DuraSeal Quick Coat Penetrating Finish 101 Country White Hardwood Flooring Stain 1 qt Stains DuraSeal Quick Coat Penetrating Finish (101 country white sheen) is a semi-transparent stain formulated to seal, color and provide exceptional durability when used on bare wood and masonry surfaces. This has no amber tint and the finish will not yellow over time. If you could seal them and have them still look like they look now I think that would be awesome. And the next steps are the most important! I love to build and do maintenance, but I have to tell you…….I want to be just like you when I grow up!!!! This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. Nicely done! Having the blue walls and ceiling complete may also change the color of the floors, giving them more of a blue-green tint. Here’s how that looked in the daylight…. 🙂 I figure that the topcoat will be the most important part of this equation anyway, so as long as I get that right, the “not-intended-for-floors” stain will be just fine. We sealed this floor with Bona NordicSeal. Next is to apply the first coat of finish. It did tame some of the red, but not quite enough for me. Any cities outside of our service area may incur a $50 bid charge. But at least I’m on the right track. In the past, when you allowed us to change your mind, you were never happy with it and ended up redoing it! It stains well with wipe stain. I would want the floor to show the grain. Duraseal Silvered Gray Stain On Red Oak Floors - Pinteresting Plans Others say don’t EVER use paint. And it will help to get rid of brush interlaps. But things like that generally don’t stop me from trying. As an artist that spills all over the place I would feel inhibited with white floors. But given the resulting pink coloration with version #1, I think you should give the floor the same bleach treatment that you gave the wood countertop in your pantry room, which resulted in a truly beautiful finish that allowed the natural grain of the wood to come through without the pink hues. Now that you've learned about what makes us different, give us the opportunity to earn your business. Description. So I added a bit more green and tried again. White oak (left), red oak (right) Look closely at the picture above, (click on it to enlarge it if you have to), and note the length of the rays in both types of wood. There’s much more that goes into a project like this. Do not use oil-based sealers and finishes! If you are attempting to seek ideas for 22 Best Hardwood Floor We let this stain sit over night on the floor. The third sample (on the bottom in the above picture) is definitely more to my liking. But, not completely! So last night before I went to bed, I tested out some whitewash options. And adding craft paint to customize the color? I would try to find a white stain that did not have a pink undertone first. Looking forward to seeing the results! Minwax has the perfect wood stain color for every project. This sealer has white dye in it and provides a whitewashed look to any floor. From contributor D: I have heard that red oak is difficult to machine, but as far as staining and finishing, it is very easy. So I decided to try out some good ole Varathane water-based white stain, right off the shelf of Home Depot. If you want to temper the red tones… try off-white or light grey colors. And it also doesn’t help that it looks slightly different from every angle, and at different times of the day. The prettiest oak floors I ever saw were in my Mom’s house. X-D. I agree with you. See the stain samples on the floor before selecting a color. The room was 11 x 26. Thoughts? If you want a slightly deeper greige use 1/2 classic grey and 1/2 weathered oak. It took more than I thought it would to get the desired effect, but again I think that’s because not only did my floor have red undertones, but the white stain appeared to as well. It’s a Danish oil product for hardwoods and comes in several colorways with a bleaching (lye) kit for oak. @ Chapel Hill, North Carolina I learn so much and you give me confidence!!!! I love the look of the floors in the natural wood colour. Always replace damaged boards before staining a floor white. I stay away from commercial oil stains because they tend to look clouded and muddy,and usually mix my own using Artist Oil colors, Mineral Spirits, and Japan Dryer. Those countertops came out so very beautiful -why not go with that I’d say. Love the red oak, so I know I’m just a little prejudiced, but wouldn’t the first one[1 coat] go with your wall paper better. See more ideas about oak floor stains, hardwood floor colors, red oak. However, this may be the case for white oak floors. We had white stained floors in our bedroom but the floors were white oak. I’m not a pink, anything person, but I’m thinking you might really like the floor more natural, lightly white washed, even if it is pinker, which we know red oak is. This makes a light floor. So I vote #1. When you add a brown stain to oak floors, you intensify and truly bring out the beauty of the wood….the white, just covers it up. That might help a lot, even though it’s a pretty big extra step. DIY Whitewashed Red Oak Studio Floor - Part 1 - Addicted 2 … Red Oak - Country White Stain - Arvada, CO - The Flooring Artists … If I had to guesstimate, I’d say that I used about a tablespoon of green acrylic paint in the quart of stain for it to have the desired effect on my floor. the single coat with green looks smoother and more finished even without sanding. Yes, I’d like to hear too if the bleaching Kristi did on the counters is something that could be done on floors before whitewashing. The natural sunlight made it look not quite so white and bright. I suppose you could use a drop cloth but that might slow down the urge to get started. You don’t have to use bleach nowadays. Testing Whitewash Finishes On Red Oak Hardwood Flooring - … It also looked like the actual stain in the can had just a tiny bit of a red undertone to it, so red undertone stain on top of red oak isn’t really a good combo. This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. Colors are shown on White Oak. Love the green paint addition to cut the reds – looks great! I love mine; it has a matte finish. What about a gray tint instead of white? We used Bona Mega Clear HD. Would that keep the floors from looking pink and eliminate the need to add green? Natural wood tones vary, so expect your final stain color to vary slightly from board to board. This project was existing red oak flooring. But after reading reviews and seeing pictures, I wasn’t convinced that it was the answer. It took 3 of us pounding the nailer to lay it. And you know what to expect….no 540sf surprise! Thanks for sharing! (What is difference in White Wash and Lime Wax? I’m excited to get the floors sanded and get on with the staining! But I don’t think they would look good with the emerald or the warm bathroom colors (although, the two colors look pretty on your bathroom vanity in the hallway, so maybe not! Thank you for sharing enough details for us to try to replicate your results. 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