Minwax Dark Walnut Stain On Red Oak Floors

The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room.

Minwax dark walnut stain on red oak floors.

I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night. Jumped and decided on 50 50. We also chose minwax stain for our red oak floors. Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial.

Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat. We want a warm brown not reddish dark deep color. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. Just met floor guy we tested minwax colors but he is using duraseal.

We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color. When my littles were little we were refinishing our red oak floors i scooped up some dirt in the yard and asked for our floors to be stained close to that color. The available colors our floor guy says are out there are simply not what we had a in mind. 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.

2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains. We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains. The other woods took the stain well with more redness coming out of the conditioned sides of the boards.

Use our stain color guide to pick the right stain color for your wood projects. My dilemma is what stain to go with. Although no red came through with the pine at all. I tested minwax jacobean stain dark walnut stain special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain.

I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright. Minwax has the perfect wood stain color for every project. We tried jacobean antique brown and royal mahogany. Last is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with.

In fact it looked almost pinky gray. My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain. We set on minwax special walnut and weathered oak to give us the look we wanted but that did not work at all. He believes it will be difficult to get the stain to rematch.

Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets. This next picture was also taken last night. Our floor guy wanted us to choose preferably one stain incase anything ever happens to the floors.