Can i stain my red oak gray.
Gray stained red oak floors.
We are refinishing existing 2 1 4 red oak floors that are currently a darker stain and completely replacing the floors in some rooms so we have to stick with red oak.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Ginger if you have red oak and want to do some form of gray you will either need to bleach the floors first or choose a darker gray.
There are a few methods.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
You may have seen on instagram we are just wrapping up a large set of home renovation projects.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
So before i get into the oak stain colors and results i thought it would be helpful to provide a few tips on choosing a hardwood floor stain.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.