Help!...blending new red oak to 1983 red oak floors...too different!
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Red Oak Floor Stain: Go Lighter! {Classic Gray & Special Walnut blend}
Comments (27)@Amy Molina thank you for advising. your color really is beautiful!!! i just selected last monday chestnut/classic. it did not appear to have any of that red orange showing through - just a nice neutral brown color. in my opinion, it is like a special walnut but greatly improved. special walnut was a yuck! color on my floor showing orange and the grains too bold. classic gray is the ticket to modernize a color if looking for a brown. its just finding the right brown that is tricky. now i am just hoping i selected a dark enough brown - yoir looks great! they come and do ours tomorrow in the official color....See MoreMatch new White Oak Floors to existing Red Oak in our home addition?
Comments (1)Sample this where the two woods meet. So you can see how big of a contrast there is. On my screen, the water base looks good....See MoreCustom Stain blend samples on Red Oak
Comments (4)This is an excellent representation of why it is important for you to view samples in your own home and against your own finishes instead of looking at photos online. The light quality of each home/room can dramatically change the look of the flooring. It is also very important that your flooring complements your other finishes, and the only way to know this is to see them next to each other. My only other suggestion is to put your final two or three choices of the actual stain product on your sanded floors to see how your existing wood takes the stain. It could be slightly different than your sample board. Great job!...See MoreSeeking Solution for working with Old Red Oak vs New Red Oak please!
Comments (7)@Sales Team I REALLY wished I had done this - I wish I had known to do this...between the insurance adjuster who promised to make us 'whole' by covering the cost of the old wood also being sanded, scraped and stained again AND the flooring company that was recommended to me as being skilled at matching AND an interior designer, no one mentioned this as even potentially being an issue. We have the same wood, same grade and size but I just didn't realize that the old wood would have changed so much from the chemicals soaking in. I could either go back to the insurance company to try to push them to cover new wood in the adjoining room (the den) but then now this will push the flooring company out when they are booked and pushes us out an additional 2-3 weeks since the new wood would have to acclimate and this new area would have to be worked into their schedule. An inconvenience for all and typically I wouldn't bat an eye to push for this but we have an 18 and 21 year old and both kids will be leaving home around the same time (college for one and moving out for another) and I REALLY wanted to make this holiday season really memorable and go all out decorating. I know it's trivial to many and definitely a first world problem but it's something that's disappointing to me nontheless... If you have experience with this, do you (or does anyone else) think that the NEW red oak will 'catch up' to looking bleached out like the OLD wood since we'll be using the same custom color on it (has one part ebony since it has a green undertone to counteract the pink)? Or will they always look different??? Thanks so much for responding!!...See Morevicbayside
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