Any advice would be appreciated.
Espresso stain on red oak floors.
I am refinishing my red oak hardwood floors and would like to do a gray stain.
If you have red oak one trick you can use is to take fruitwood stain and add other stain colors to it.
New wall colors all have grey undertones.
Is there a stain color we could mix with the gray to offset the pink tone.
Ebony 2 espresso 3.
Not only does the hardness effect how a wood will accept stain harder woods tend to accept stains better and more evenly but also the natural color of the wood.
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But if it s red oak you could purchase a red oak board from lowe s and do a bunch of tests on your own to get the color right.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
If espresso looks red on your floor i am guessing that you have red oak floors instead of white oak.
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.
Can you provide any insight as to which one i should choose minwax.
Refinishing red oak floors in my house.
Ebony is too dark espresso is a tad too gray jacobean is a tad too brown and dark walnut is too old school.
Four colors from the left 1.
I m between dark walnut and espresso to match with antique brown which is in a bedroom and down the stairs.
Will the floors take on a pink tone.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Red oak with jacobean stain.
Some gorgeous more purple inspired stain colours espresso or walnut look woods.
Red oak floor with a jacobean stain.
I hope you have some left over wood to play with until you can get the color you want.
Anyone have any ex.
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.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
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.