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Remodeling Flooring Design Dilemma

Recommendations on stain color for red oak. Need to choose tomorrow!?

last year

Here are the colors, house is rustic, one room has old barn wood on the walls :). Stains are Duraseal

Colors are L-R - medium brown, special walnut, provincial, dark walnut, 50/50 provincial/medium brown, jacobean. I don't love any of them, think something with more gray backtones. any suggestions? thinking lighter jacobean, or dark walnut/special walnut. My favorite of the options below is either the provincial or the 50/50.

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er612
last year
I think you're right to pick a contrasting stain. Jacobean and dark walnut seem too close to the barn wood. Sounds like you want something more like this:

If so, can you dilute jacobean or dark walnut?
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Rawketgrl
last year
Red Solo cup! 50/50
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"considering medium brown/weathered oak chesnut/weathered oak" Isn't that what is in your second photo? You say "my flooring guy is pretty useless coming up with combos on his own", but it looks like your second photo shows he is providing what you are asking for. Your top photo is not "medium brown/weathered oak/chestnut". I think the flooring guy is giving you what you asked for, but what you asked for is not what you actually want. Show him your top photo that you posted here. Here are photos of chestnut stain on white oak and weathered oak stain on white oak (a much more gray finish than it sounds like you want). So you need to give your flooring guy the correct instruction of what you want, and not blame him when you do not.
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kandrewspa
last year
I vote for 50/50 also.
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Chris S
Original Author
last year
Thanks for the feedback!

@er612 how much should we dilute jacobean or dark walnut? Is that with neutral?

They are doing the stains this morning.
Rehabit
last year
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what ever is in red cup looks best with the wall its not to dark or orange
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