Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects.
Grey stained oak wood floors.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
To minimize the orange effect that comes with aging oil based polyurethane protective coats we used a water based polyurethane to protect the floors.
Freshly installed hardwood is the perfect starting point for a gray stain.
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.
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Beige ceramic tile on the floor.
I built my own wood floor out of douglas fir 1 6 and wanted to stain it grey.
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.
Adventures in staining my red oak hardwood floors products process description.
Staining a floor gray is best to do so on a new floor rather than an existing floor.
I want a drastic change.
All medium oak not sure if orange or brown cabinets and trim.
Hardwood that has just been installed will not have any old finish that can have an affect on the way the gray stain is taken by the wood.
Staining red oak hardwood floors 9 stain on entryway and music room floors via.
I used the bona grey since it works well with the bona traffic hd.
Despite all of the work involved letting wood dry putting in the tongue and groove nailing it down sanding and more sanding filling a few gaps and more sanding then a stain prep and then the bona.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
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We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
Changing the woodwork is out of the question.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
I would like to put in a grey barn wood floor not sure if i can.
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.
See also various other 18 wonderful hardwood floor stain colors for oak below right here.