Special Walnut on Oak with a Tung Oil finish

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Thanks Allison. I don't see any orange/yellow tone in the special walnut. Do you notice any in the floor in direct sunlight?

Any one else?

I only get sun in the end windows - large verandas front/back. No orangeyellow.

Allison: Your home is just beautiful. Thanks again for replying.

I discovered today the stain is called Early American (not New American). Anyone else have any pictures to share of their Minwax stained floors?

I have red oak in my house and am having it installed in our addition to match. It will all be sanded and stained to match. I dislike the orange in the red oak, but I need to keep the floor uniform. I have looked over the Minwax samples, and asked the floor man to make me up a sample board using Jacobean with a bit of red mahogany mixed in. (2 parts to less than 1 part.) Why don't you ask for samples in several colors and live with them a few days? My GC told me they always do this for the homeowner.

househappy, the cedar beams you see in the photo are stained with Early American. As you can see, they blend with the flooring and the door trim (which is stained with SW Walnut Wainscott). Early American on oak flooring won't be as dark and a touch of orange will show thru.

Your flooring guys will have several cans of left over stains and before they begin, will/should stain patches of the floor for you to see (at least 1ft square). They'll sand it off before starting after you select a color. We had enough stains around, so I played on a scrap piece of flooring before that day - but we still let them put down the various stains for me to see.

Like gabeach stated, the paint store will be happy to do test samples also - I did this on the cedar before deciding. They'll do the already mixed for free, but if you want to see a speciality mix (like Walnut Wainscott) you'll have to buy a quart.

we have red oak with Provencial stain from minwax.

here are a few pics. some are old. I haven't taken updated pics of anything but the kitchen, which is still being finished (have to put bottom edge trim on cabinets, along with shoe mold, and also change out white outlet covers to match travertine backsplash.)

same floor in sunlight, before backsplash was added:

and here's an even older pic of our dining room before we moved in:

trying to revive this thread....

any one else have pictures of Minwax floors?

kygirl 99, thanks for those beautiful pix. Provincial looks just a teeny bit darker than we'd like for our floors. We have select red oak and we are thinking of staining them cherry alone or a 50/50 mix of special walnut with golden oak. Any thoughts, recommendations, photos?
thanks!