White oak flooring - rift/quarter-sawn vs. live sawn - advice needed!
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Please post pics of your quarter sawn white oak floors
Comments (5)we just installed rift and quartered white oak throughout the house and finished with waterlox. the floors are spectacular. the linear grain of the WO is soft, yet varied, and the flecking of the quartersawn adds tremendous depth and beauty. Waterlox actually warms the none of the wood without imparting any noticeable color, and you can, if you like, add a little oil based stain to the first coat to add a little tint if you like. the WO has none of the agitation of face sawn RO, and feels much finer and older somehow. I live in LA, where red oak is common, and these floors are more beautiful than anything else around. so yummy you could sleep on them....See More1/4 sawn oak floor with 1/4 sawn oak base cabinets?
Comments (4)Too funny! I'm in Vancouver as well and just finishing my white uppers, rift cut oak lowers, kitchen. Similar vintage house. We have new white oak quarter/rift floors everywhere on the main floor, but went with a darker ceramic floor tile in the kitchen. The oak of the lowers works well with the oak floors in the adjacent dining room. I think the darker tile floor works to break things up a little, in a good way. The counters are madreperola quartzite, with a taupe that picks up the tones of the wood, and greens that pick up the tones of the kitchen floor. Plain white subway backsplash that closely matches the white uppers. Overall, really happy. Hopefully I'll be posting pics in the next week or two. Having seen it, I can reassure you that the combo of white uppers and white oak lowers is gorgeous. You'll love it....See MorePhotos of stained rift sawn white oak?
Comments (0)I'm cross posting this from the kitchen forum in the hopes of getting help from you wood experts here on the Flooring forum. :) If anyone would be so kind as to share your photos of stained rift sawn white oak, I'd be so appreciative! I'd like to gather a collection of photos to show my cabinet maker to help me describe what I want. I'm not totally happy with the door sample I got from my cabinet maker (see photos below). I really like the colour of the stain but I don't like how opaque it is because it totally masks all the figure of the wood (the medullary ray flecks and natural shimmer of the wood) and I hate how the stain darkened the grain so dramatically. I do like to see the grain, but not with so much contrast to the surrounding wood. The unstained backside of the door has wonderful figure, with a beautiful shimmer to the wood and lots of little medullary ray flecks. Here's a photo (note that it appears they used a mix of QS white oak, RS white oak and plain sawn red oak to construct the door): Here is an example of the rich, lively finish I would like for my cabinets: This was the best photo I could find. All the other photos I found were blurry, didn't have enough resolution to show the detail of the wood, or were of QS vs RS oak. QS oak is very popular but it's terribly difficult to find photos of RS white oak. Please help! I need more photos of stained RS oak that show the detail of the wood....See MoreNervous about new install of white rift sawn oak floors
Comments (3)sincerelymjandrj@yahoo.com , Rift Sawn White Oak is a beautiful selection. It is very strange that the contractor has never worked with White Oak before. I would ask to see his portfolio and look for reviews. Most big remodels and new construction use White Oak over Red Oak....See MoreUnique Wood Floors
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