Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
Red oak grey stained oak hardwood floors.
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.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Old red oak plank floors refinished with grey stain ortega april 16 2018 0 comments in wood floor refinishing by admin dan s floor store was contracted to refinish the 1 1 2 wide solid old red oak plank floors in this circa 1950 home in the ortega neighborhood of jacksonville florida.
Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot.
Floors only have stain on it so far and i m not sure how they will look different with the water based poly.
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.
They don t seem to look anything like the sample we tried and have a greyer tone than we wanted.
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.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
Also look a.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
So we went with bona 1 2 medium brown and 1 2 classic grey on our red oak floors.
Be careful with the wood species.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
See also red oak floor stain samples oakhardwoodflooring flooring.