HELP - need to pick a floor stain by tomorrow!
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Please help me pick stain for white oak floor
Comments (4)Valerie, Thanks, we had the hardwoods installed about five years ago, and I do not remember the name of them. They were prefinished floors, though. I have maids that come weekly, they vacuum and then use the spray hardwood floor cleaner on them that my flooring guy recommended. I don't usually have to clean in between, but I am not a clean freak. I don't have pets inside, but lots of teens in and out!...See Moreneed help picking a floor stain
Comments (3)I would keep the stain as light as possible (inside your preferred colour range of course). Anything darker than your current floor will darken your interior. You already have dark cabinets and your dining room furniture looks dark/black as well. Your walls are a yellow/beige which will darken as you darken the floors. If you are thinking of adding more lighting/changing out the lighting/bulbs, I highly recommend you do it before you refinish the floors/paint. If the floors are your ONLY project for the next 7 years or so, then make sure you are fully aware of how a dark floor darkens a home. If you have TREMENDOUS amounts of natural lighting, you are welcome to go as dark as you wish. But if your natural light is limited (small windows, north facing property, old home with dark trim, etc) then your floors will not need to go too dark before they become "dramatic". And let's face it. People love dark floors because they are "dramatic". They lend a sense of "Wow" to a regular interior. A mid-tone or even lighter stain can have the same effect in a small, poorly light/dark home. Which is precisely why your flooring professional will offer 3-5 different stain patches (with a coat of finish on top...never pick a colour without a layer of finish on top...NEVER) for you to pick from. Just some food for thought....See MoreHelp picking floor stain for red oak floors!
Comments (9)I like the color you have! It is classic. Maybe not "on trend", but it won't be the gray floor of 2017 for the next 40 years either. Anything "Medium Brown" will be classic. Achieving that on red oak is not always easy due to the red part of red oak. Seriously, though, there is no easy answer to this without samples on your floor in your lighting. You can't make your decision based on pictures on the internet because of the variations in lighting and whatever your monitor does to colors, too. If you can't slow the process down to get samples, I would make my own samples by getting some unfinished red oak and staining it yourself. Be sure to add the top coat to get a realistic idea of what it will look like. Then you can move the samples around. However, you need to know what brand of products your flooring professional is going to use. If you have that information already, please share it and the professionals here will be able to give you some input on the quality of the product....See MoreNeed HELP picking stain for red oak floors
Comments (0)Trying to make my new red oak floors look like the first wood color but everything looks pink or clay colored. Any suggestions to get it to the top picture?...See Moregpraceman55
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