I guess in theory you could paint them if you wanted a cottage vibe.
Best grey stain for red oak floors.
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.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
Old preexisting floors are not the best canvas to sand and refinish in a gray stain.
The dark gray will help hide and drown out the red tones.
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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.
There are so many colours of wood in the world you name it it s out there.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
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.
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Sometimes mixing stain colors can help but i don t know what the right formula would be off the top of my head.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
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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.
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.
To get rid of the honey color the floors need to be sanded.
With stain more layers likely wouldn t help because the wood is still supposed to come through.
Best to stain gray on a brand new installed floor.
How to update oak cabinets without a drop of paint.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
We painted the floors at our beach cottage white but that s a story for another day.
White oak for flooring has a broad selection of colors that range from white to dark gray brown.
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Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Our last home red oak hardwood floors refinishing with duralseal country white stain.
Older floors typically have spacing nail and pin holes discoloration etc.
If you re thinking about choosing this flooring then.