Grey Stained Oak Wood 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.

Grey stained oak wood floors.

Freshly installed hardwood is the perfect starting point for a gray stain. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between. 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.

Skip to main content. Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring. The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat. Staining red oak hardwood floors 9 stain on entryway and music room floors via.

See also various other 18 wonderful hardwood floor stain colors for oak below right here. Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects. I built my own wood floor out of douglas fir 1 6 and wanted to stain it grey. I used the bona grey since it works well with the bona traffic hd.

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. View all hardwood floor products. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.

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. 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. 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. 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.

General finishes gray gel stain. Can i stain my existing hardwood floors gray. Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster. Adventures in staining my red oak hardwood floors products process description.