This is not my first choice to make hardwood floors darker and it will only make your floors a bit darker.
How to make my hardwood floors darker.
That led to a few customers asking if we can re stain engineered wood floors.
Tinted topcoats varnishes and various types of polyurethane can give you a darker color.
While a few decorators may love a matte finish most hardwood floor owners like finishes that shine.
Color change requires sanding to remove the top finish layer of the floor.
Then it has to be re sealed in new gloss.
In a previous blog we discussed refinishing engineered hardwood floors and how the thickness of the wood layer determines if they can be refinished.
Dark stained wood floors can be lightened to give your home an exciting new look.
A finished floor has to be stripped of all existing gloss and stain and taken down to bare wood before being re stained a darker shade.
It is possible to change the color of your hardwood from dark to light and vice versa as you desire.
Make hardwood floors shine with vegetable oil.
They are durable valuable at resale time and can enhance almost any decorating style.
Much like the question about refinishing engineered wood floors there is no easy answer to this question.
The reason i m not crazy about this solution is that adding stain to the poly weakens the polyurethane a bit.
Installing new hardwood floors or finding them in an older home is a bonus to the value of a home.
Lightly hand sand using a light grit sanding block lightly hand sand the entire surface of the wood piece that you would like to darken.
Several products exist that will let you change or restore the color of your hardwood floors.
I just had my red white oak hardwood floors stained with 2 coats of ebony dark walnut.
You can add a glaze or coat to your hardwood floors to give them a darker color.
However a perfect outcome will depend on the condition and the natural color of the wood.
If you ve got hardwood floors that are finished too lightly darkening the floors will take some work and is a lot more complicated than re painting a wall a darker color.
Polyurethane is what gives the floor its protection.
They are a really nice dark rich color.
My floor guy uses masterline oil based poly in a satin finish but i can t find much information on this product.