HELP! wood floor refinish gone wrong
We hired someone to refinish our wood floors. The sample color he showed us looked like a golden/yellow. He just put on the first coat of the oil finish and the floors look orange! It’s not yellow/golden as I was expecting.
He offered to resand the floors since he only put the first cover on he said it would be easy to do. The second option we had was a water finish with a bit of whitener.
Most of our furniture is light color so I’m afraid the whiter floors will not go well with the furniture but I also don’t want orange floors!! What do I do? I need to let him know by tomorrow what to do.
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This is the only sample test he gave us. The one circles in white is the one we picked out. But I think now I’m going to ask him to do the one circled in blue. Which is more in line with the natural color.
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If it was me, I would ask for a sample of medium walnut stain, something like this...
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Thank you all! We decided to strip it back and sand it again. We’ll go for a bit of white color and water base poly this time. The oil finish was making the floors way too orange. The natural color like the photo below seems to open up the space. It’ll take longer but live and learn. We don’t have southern light coming in so the space feels smaller. I’ll share photos with the furniture once it is in place. The previous owners had no control with their dogs so there are urine stains. Hopefully the white will help with that if not, a rug will do the job. Thank you for the messages. It helped me a lot make the decision and it helped me feel like I wasn’t crazy 😄.
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Okay here is a photo of the second sanding. Now our floor guy is asking we want a see through poly or if we want a bit of whitening. My first reaction is that we do want the whitening as it will tone down some of the reddish / pink of the oak and help a bit with the stains. But what do you all think? Right now it doesn’t have anything on it. It’s the raw wood.
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