As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look.
How to stain oak floors grey.
Blot up any excess with a clean rag.
But the more practical questions to consider is should i stain my floors gray and will they turn out the way you want.
To get rid of the honey color the floors need to be sanded.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
He suggested the lightest we go is special walnut stain water based finish.
Create a ground color with dye.
He should marry it.
Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.
Luckily you can stain oak to look as dark as possible.
The ground color establishes the finish s predominate undertone.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
We painted the floors at our beach cottage white but that s a story for another day.
He also left samples of the weathered oak alone with the gray stain and the gray stain alone.
My father in law is going to give me the hardest time for this post.
Can i stain my existing hardwood floors gray.
I guess in theory you could paint them if you wanted a cottage vibe.
Many great oak finishes begin with a ground color dye typically a yellow or reddish brown.
Staining a floor gray is best to do so on a new floor rather than an existing floor.
Oak wood has a porous quality to it which makes it very absorbent of staining materials.
In all of them some of the floor boards definitely showed pink.
He loves it so much.
I have had at least 25 conversations with.
However oak does have a very dramatic grain of the wood which can sometimes give even the darkest stain a streaky effect or the look of highlights.
Our last home red oak hardwood floors refinishing with duralseal country white stain.
Apply the dye liberally to bare wood with a brush or spray bottle.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
We spoke to the guy at the floor company doing the work last night.