Horrible time complementing orange-y wood
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Comments (1)My previous home (1930's) had oak floors (the old kind, yellowish orange) through out (including bathrooms) apart from the kitchen that had douglas fur. We thought the flow from oak to pine was fine. My new home, also wood trough out has 4 different kids of wood. Kitchen is yellow hard wood pine, pantries are douglas fur, dinning room and all the rest of first floor is oak. Upstairs hallway is oak, half bedrooms are birch and half bedrooms are douglas fur. The only one that I am not thrilled with is the the birch which I think it looks weird. Anyway, my point is that although so many different woods are used somehow everything looks nice. People always comment on the richness of my floors. I think nothing can go wrong with using 2 different kids of wood as long as the color hue is not completely off. I would not get something too white or something that looks too exotic unless of course you want to create a complete different feel. The only thing I would worry is the contrast between the old and the new. One of my closets of my new home was completely rotten (from roof leaking...) and we put there a brand new floor. While we matched the wood and color still anytime I look in there it looks so new that is an eyesore. Thankfully it is just a closet. I think our mistake was to buy the kind that wad the poly already applied so it is not the same poly that the rest of the room has. If I had to do it over I would get the unfinished wood. And ask my kids to distress it a lit bit...:)...See MoreNeed help with paint colour for reddish/orange wood floors
Comments (15)I am glad they are both good options for you. I like BM White Down with Edgecomb as well. SW Pure White looks good with both. Another option is a softer white is BM White Dove for the trim. It depends on what you like in your space. It's personal preference. SW Pure White will look whiter than BM Dove White. Both a good options. You can see on the graph below, the DNA of many popular white paints. Always test colors in your personal space and light. Light affects color. Paint large sample boards instead of the wall and live with it for a few days. Place them near your floor, near a corner, move them around. Your current wall colors will affect how you see the new color, but large sample boards make it easy to make a decision. Given where BM White Down lives, it gets it's warmth from it's proximity to the Yellow-Red Family. Your light may reveal a hint of peach, but more likely it will just be a warm white like you want. Post a picture when you are done!...See MoreWhat to do with a horrible orange kitchen?
Comments (30)Thanks for the lengthy response, S.J. McCarthy. Yes, I truly wish that the original owners had not used an oil stain on all this wood. We had some shelving installed around our fireplace that matches the cabinets and the unstained wood really is a beautiful soft colour. Of course, it has now darkened to match the cabinets, which is fine because the shelving, which holds art, not books, is spaced so the orange doesn't dominate against the grey tile around the fireplace and the light walls. I would have to see if the engineered floor can be stripped down. I've got some of it left in the original box so I can find out. Having a light floor would make the place look airy and fresh. It would be a huge job moving all the furniture, though....See MoreNeed help with 90 y.o. used-and-abused wood floors !
Comments (8)Thanks for all the very helpful comments! I really liked the idea of using shellac and Zinsser SealCoat pre-mixed, dewaxed shellac looked like a really promising product, however, it is super hard to find right now (at least in Canada). It's either a COVID related manufacturing problem, or I think I read somewhere that there was a bad crop of lac beetles...! So I was ready to explore mixing shellac from flakes, but getting the right alcohol was proving a bit difficult too and would all have to be ordered online without the option of doing a small sample first. I was at Benjamin Moore and chatting with the lady who worked there and she suggested a water-based floor varnish by Saman (a Canadian brand I think). Just letting some samples dry right now, but it is looking promising! I'd be happy to hear if anybody else has had experience with varnish, I'm feeling like it might be a "too good to be true" situation. Seems to kind of be like a sweet spot between shellac and polyurethane (although it seems quite similar to poly from what I can tell/read). Because there's big cracks in between the subfloor boards, and nothing between there and the ceiling below, we're putting down an underlayment in hopes of creating a bit of a barrier (in the event of spilling water, for example, it would just go straight down to the ceiling below), minimize impact noise and keep the dust below the subfloor contained. Spent a ton of time researching alternatives to flooring paper underlayment for top-nail, plank wood floors, so just wanted to say thanks to @SJ McCarthy for their contributions on other posts which were very helpful. I've ordered QuietWalk and hoping that will fit the bill. QuietWalk Plus wasn't available in Canada but we don't need any moisture protection from the subfloor so hopefully QuietWalk will suffice. I called the manufacturer and they indicated it should be OK. Eventually we'll probably add insulation between the floors (it will likely have to be blow in from what I understand, since I don't want to rip out the ceiling and the subfloors upstairs can't be lifted because they span across load bearing walls) to help with soundproofing, but hopefully the QuietWalk will help reduce impact noise a bit. My husband and I spent a couple days removing 90 years worth of headless nails and tacks. Now we'll be spending the long weekend steaming the boards to try and close any small holes, then wood filler, making wood plugs, gluing knots and more sanding. Sometimes it seems silly to spend so much time on these low-quality boards, but I like that they're wood from a different era and can't imagine ripping them up and throwing them out. Nova Scotia forests are being clear-cut across the whole province, so I think it's worth the effort to salvage what we have instead of buying new if we don't really need to. Thanks again for the suggestions and feedback!...See Morepamelas_kitchen
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