Grey Stained White Oak Floors

Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.

Grey stained white oak floors.

Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors. Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between. Gray stains are in demand now. The result is cool controlled modern and rather chic.

This post is sponsored by minwax. If you haven t had someone ask you to stain a floor gray be patient it will come. This white oak floor has been stained in a custom mix of gray ceruse. Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.

We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray. Iron acetate is easily created by soaking steel wool in white vinegar. Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray. Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.

Dec 17 2017 explore laura mcm s board staining white oak grey ideas on pinterest. Let the vinegar and steel wool sit overnight to three days. Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster. You can give your white oak floors an aged look by staining them with iron acetate.

Amazing patterns can be created on hardwood floors when you combine expert stenciling skills and in depth knowledge of stain applications. 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. 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. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.

Here s how you can easily stain a floor using white vinegar and steel wool to achieve a gray aged look. We are doing another gray floor as i write this and i put a bid in on a maple job a few days ago. See more ideas about white oak floors flooring staining wood. Can i stain my red oak gray.

10 awesome hardwood floor stain colors for white oak minwax stain colors on oak 27 test 768 representation custom mixing. White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain. Patterns using wood floor stain colors. Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.

There are a few methods. Hopefully it is a short lived fad but you can add to your bottom line by knowing how to successfully do these types of jobs.