Minwax Dark Walnut Stain On Red Oak Floors

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Minwax dark walnut stain on red oak floors.

My dilemma is what stain to go with. I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night. In fact it looked almost pinky gray. We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all.

We want a warm brown not reddish dark deep color. This post is sponsored by minwax. I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright. Or just keeping your existing floor looking as good as new minwax has a full range of.

I tested minwax jacobean stain dark walnut stain special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain. We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain.

We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. We tried jacobean antique brown and royal mahogany. Although no red came through with the pine at all.

Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors. The available colors our floor guy says are out there are simply not what we had a in mind. Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets. 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.

The other woods took the stain well with more redness coming out of the conditioned sides of the boards. Just met floor guy we tested minwax colors but he is using duraseal. Jumped and decided on 50 50. We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.

Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects. The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room. When my littles were little we were refinishing our red oak floors i scooped up some dirt in the yard and asked for our floors to be stained close to that color. Last is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with.

He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat.