Is it possible to "stain" /change the color of interior flagstone?
mariangelespk
4 years ago
We can somewhat work with the grayish ones, but the purple and red ones are just not working with the place. This floor covers over 900 square feet in our family / kitchen area and we are trying to avoid a full replace. Can they be stained or somewhat painted to completely change the color to something more neutral? Please help!
Here is a pic of our kitchen, colors edited to tone floors down a bit....
Thank you!!
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Comments (5)Thanks so much for the reply Karinl. I am a lurker in the Landscape Design forum, and I've read quite a few of your messages over there. I did a lot of googling for staining or coloring stone and didn't find anyone doing it. I did find lots of information about staining concrete but I was not sure if the same products would apply. I am worried that the stone might be much less porous and therefore not stainable. It's certainly worth a try -- I am going to get the acid type stain this weekend and do some experimenting. If you can think of any other keywords to Google that might help me find what I am looking for, I would appreciate it. The stone yard that we used isn't very retail customer friendly -- they do a lot of wholesaling and had a fabulous selection but when we went back to pick up our second pallet on Monday they didn't seem interested in the fact that the first pallet was very different that what we hoped for. (They totally ignored our comments about it, although we did not outright ask about returning it.) We did do a better job picking out the second pallet thank goodness -- it is gorgeous. If my staining experiment goes badly, we will try to take back some of the light stone for exchange. Julie...See MoreFiberglass with flagstone? Is this possible?
Comments (9)Posted by kjd_oregon (My Page) on Tue, Jun 12, 07 at 20:54 DPZ1....I am in the process of getting bids for a Viking FG pool now. I would be very interested in your install story, as well as pics. I am up in oregon, so not a whole lot of installers to choose from. 1st bid for a 9,000 gal Key West with a 20 sf water feature and rock coping is 42,500 ******************************************* kjd_oregon, We literally just passed final inspection yesterday, although we've been using the pool for a little over a week. Solar goes in next week, and then we have to put the landscaping around the pool back in. Overall, I am very happy with both the pool and the builder. We have a 15000 gallon (14X30) Laguna model in the saphire blue color. We started on May 2, and we were effectively done by June 4th. Had we just gone with the original salt finish concrete deck, we would have been done in only three weeks, but adding the sandstone took another couple of weeks. As Sharla stated - the installer is key. Check them out thoroughly and go see several reference installations. Ours has been in business for 25 years, had no BBB issues and no license issues (California has a contractors license board that you can check on licensed contractors in the state). They provided us with 5 references within a mile of us, eventhough they are headquartered across the bay from us. They install about 50 pools a year, so we had a bunch of refernces to choose from. Going to the references is key because you can see the quality of the work, hear what the buyers would do differently if they were doing it now, after having used the pool for a while. It also enables you to get an idea for the true size of the pools and how they might fit in your yard. In the end, we moved up from a 12x25 Bermuda to its larger Laguna cousin after seeing a Bermuda and realizing that it was narrower than what we wanted. Also, if you have landscaping to demo. You should do that, too before you make your final final pool decision. After taking out the old inground spa and deck, we realized that we had more room than we thought for the pool. We paid $47000 for the Laguna with 3 ft of concrete deck, 1.5 hp jandy motor, 460 sq ft jandy filter, suction side 'the pool cleaner' sweeper (that works incredibly well). Solar and Pool shed not included, plus an additional $8000 for additional decking (150 more square feet) and the flagstone. I would think that you could get if for significantly less since this is a ridiculously expensive area for construction - up to $380 a square foot for new building... I can not imagine the project going more smoothly. Our builder - I'll give them a plug since they did such a good job - Custom Fiberglass Pools of Fremont - gave us a schedule and constantly called us to update us for when they would be onsite and what the next steps were. The only sub on the project was the concrete/stone company, and they had worked with our builder for 25 years. I think minimizing the subs contributed to the smoothness installation, since there are less communication errors and missed dates. The only thing I'm not sure about right now is the pump. There are more energy efficient options (intelliflo or two speeds out there, but I'm not sure that they would drive the cleaner, and we have a lot of trees that drop leaves and pods into the pools. We'll see how it goes for a couple of months and then decide if we want to look at other pump options. I have pictures that I would be happy to post, but I cannot figure out how to do it on this forum....if someone can explain the process, I'll be happy to add them...See MorePossible to change color on dark oak banisters?
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Comments (8)nosoccermom - I did my bathroom cabinets with General Finishes Gel Stain in Java color and I just finished my kitchen cabinets with Old Masters Gel Stain in Red Mahogany color. I also have most of my trim completed on the first floor with the same Old Masters Gel Stain. That stuff works wonders. Its by far the cheapest home improvement I've done that's had the largest impact on my design. Back to the doors... I gave it a second coat yesterday. It definitely looks much better than the first. Still a little streaky in spots, but it won't be perfect since I'm staining such a large area. I brought the door back inside yesterday after the second coat. All the doors in my house are in a darker hallway... except for that one door I posted a photo of above which leads to the basement. When I placed the stained door in this spot, you could definitely notice some streaks. However, I took that same door and placed it in the hallway and you can barely notice it thanks to the not so good lighting. So I think this will work... I'll stain a couple more doors this weekend, hang them, and see what they look like. I'll post some photos when I get the door hung....See More
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