Oak Hill has one for $10 and shipping will be $12. If you can help it, never order just one plant. The shipping always kills you. For instance, you could order up to $49 worth of plants from Oak Hill and still pay only $12 to ship all of them. Kevin

"Plywood and solid wood often take color differently. And there are individual variances in the wood itself. (Is this what you're experiencing?)" Yes - yes - yes! I have 3.5" fluted oak trim that is the biggest problem. It runs vertically at the seam and the corners atop plinth blocks. These pieces not only are very different from pc to pc, but within a single pc ( after staining) Most of the problem is the fluted trim seems to have white oak within the pieces and neither the stains nor the waterlox is giving a consistent shade of color. I understand wood is different and I actually like that natural variation, but the yellow/ green vs amber thing is very ugly. DH wants me to waterlox the entire bar according to your directions, then deal with the fluted trims pcs after we see how it all looks. I absolutely Love the Waterlox!!! Thank you so much. The Bar rail is going to look spectacular just using the Waterlox. So, my question is: should I proceed using only the Waterlox everywhere, then try to add some stain/dye where needed on the fluted trim to try to blend the shades? Removing the trim is not an option. I tried to get the Jeff Jewitt book you quoted today - no luck yet. I appreciate any of your comments or recommendations.

I hear you. We just had a fence put in, and I want to stain it. A medium dark brown, without too much red, but not gray looking... I've got 5 quarts and three sample size stains, and so far nothing is exactly right.

Do you have any of the original carpet left over. When we got new carpeting there was some left over and we had the carpet company bind it and put it in the foyer.