Blue is also a great choice for red oak hardwood floors.
Gray stained oak hardwood floors.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat.
There are a few methods.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
You can consider pastels aquamarines and darker shades as well.
General finishes gray gel stain.
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.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
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.
It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
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.
Be bold and paint your walls red to turn up the heat to the max.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot.