Refinish Maple Floor Color? Birch Cabinets, Pine Trim
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Comments (11)Thank you for your quick response and congratulations on your marriage! I would love to see a photo of your finished work. Like you several years ago, I've been researching the best way to refinish my 100-year-old heart pine doors. They had many layers of paint, which I've removed. They are not perfect — pretty dinged up and dented. None the less, I think they'll be pretty once done. My biggest obstacle right now is how to get the wood color more even. My husband and I are restoring a 1905 house and these doors were original. As you can see from the photo, there is quite a lot of blotching. I've been able to research how to "avoid" blotching in pine just not how to "correct" it. I thought using dyes might help even things out. Of course the blotching might just be some of that "antique dirt" you mentioned. Staining or dying pine then means I have to decide whether to condition the wood. That process has its pros and cons too. I would prefer to oil and seal like you did but the uneven color is forcing me to consider other options. Thanks so much for your input. Kim...See MoreRed birch floor - what trim to use?
Comments (6)Red birch floors will be gorgeous. One possibility is using red birch for the baseboard trim finished the same as the flooring. I don't think stained poplar will harmonize with birch. I've always been under the impression poplar was generally painted. If VG Fir is available in your area, it is beautiful next to birch and would be great for the window casings and other mouldings I can get it pretty easily, but getting red birch is next to impossible in my neck of the woods. Red birch really likes an oil based finish to bring its color out (as well as VG Fir) and neither of them need to be stained to look good. Hopefully the sealer will be enough under the two coats of water base. Edited to add: I'd install vinyl windows before pine. Pine is quite possibly the worst material to make windows out of, just slightly better than balsa wood. I don't know why window manufacturers knowingly use a wood that is highly prone to rot for use as a window material....See MoreWhat color floors for medium maple cabinets?
Comments (29)I always tell people to start with "Primer White" (two coats when the colours are a strong as your walls). And then live with the white base for a few weeks. By that time you will have figured out how things look without a blue-gray making the orange/gold cabinets "pop". Blue and orange are used by artists to get one to make the other one say WOW! HERE I AM! That's probably why you still feel like your cabinets are still quite orange. But then again, they are finished in an oil based finish which has ambered over time (just like the hardwoods) and being that they are maple, they have YELLOWED over time (maple will turn strong yellow all by itself....it is a photosensitive wood like cherry). So you have yellow wood + orange finish = orange cabinets. Being maple, they will do this again if they are finished with polyurethane. Painting them will make them look very handsome. But before you do ANYTHING with the cabinets, please take the time to SIT DOWN and create a design board. A board that dictates all 7 elements in a Kitchen. The floors are done, so that means you have 6 more elements to figure out. Plan a FINAL DESTINATION for this kitchen before you do anything else. But in the mean time, feel free to throw a couple of coats of primer over the blue/gray and see how the floors/cabinets react to it. It think you will be surprised....See MoreWood experts--Unstained natural birch vs natural maple as far as color
Comments (9)All those cabinets JuneKnow posted look to me like they were originally stained. The color is close to a cherry look IMO. Were they natural colored originally? I know certain finishes do yellow throughout the years. An example, for floors anyway, is an oil based finish vs a water based finish. After sanding we refinished our 100 year old maple floors with oil-based finish knowing full well that the finish would cause them to yellow. In that situation our choice was based on longevity of the finish. I am just trying to get some guidance on what wood species to select if I want something that will remain a lighter color (this is a different home than the 100 year old one mentioned above)....See Morekgfrayne
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