Grey Stained Oak Wood Floors

The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
Grey stained oak wood floors. 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. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next. Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
General finishes gray gel stain. Adventures in staining my red oak hardwood floors products process description. Skip to main content. Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray. Freshly installed hardwood is the perfect starting point for a gray stain. Staining red oak hardwood floors 9 stain on entryway and music room floors via. The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. 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. I had searched high and low for pictures of duraseal silvered gray on red oak hardwood floors without much luck so in case you ve done the same hopefully this post comes up in your google search. Staining a floor gray is best to do so on a new floor rather than an existing floor.
Can i stain my existing hardwood floors gray. To minimize the orange effect that comes with aging oil based polyurethane protective coats we used a water based polyurethane to protect the floors. I used the bona grey since it works well with the bona traffic hd. View all hardwood floor products.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring. 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. I built my own wood floor out of douglas fir 1 6 and wanted to stain it grey. Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.