Oak floor stains

Transforming your red oak floors with a new stain color is a great way to modernize and update your home. We recently refinished our dark stained hardwood floors to lighter white oak look using Bona Nordic Seal and what a huge improvement!

How to choose the best stain color for red oak floor, red oak less red, and what to consider when choosing stains for red oak flooring.

Choosing Floor Stains: Top- bottom- 1) Waterborn clear coat 2) Polyurethane 3) DuraSeal Nutmeg Stain 4) Duraseal Provincial Stain 5) Minwax Weathered Oak. Note: DuraSeal Stains are by Minwax. Left side 80 grit sanded, right side 150 gril sanded. The level of sanding effects the stain appearance.

Shop Minwax Wood Finish Oil-based Ipswich Pine Semi-transparent Interior Stain (Half-pint) in the Interior Stains department at Lowe's.com. Minwax Wood Finish is a penetrating, oil-based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat. Ideal for unfinished wood furniture, cabinets,

NC home blogger Chrissy of Chrissy Marie Blog shares her white oak flooring in her home, why white oak is preferred, and the stain color. Read more here.

In case you missed it, I shared all about the reason why we chose to install new flooring, how we landed on White Oak, and, some initial details of the project here. We started the project on a Friday, and the install was complete within just a few days – making it pretty easy to […]

We had our red oak floors stained this week, they used duraseal weathered oak/nutmeg (3:1) and it looks horrible. It is pink, almost lavender in spots. Now we have to have it sanded and re-stained I am desperate to find a light stain color (on the brown side) without a pink hue (I think grey has to ...

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Hey friends! Today I’m finally sitting down to explain the stain mixture that we used on our red oak floors!

Back in May I shared a list of all the projects we wanted to have done before moving into our new house. At the top of that list?–replace all the flooring w ...