Floor Stain Special Walnut

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Floor stain special walnut.

Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter. After deliberating between jacobean dark walnut special walnut and provincial we finally settled on provincial as our favorite color stain. In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red. Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest.

Special walnut is very similar to provincial but a tad browner so usually i recommend that a customer tests both colors on their floor to see which they prefer. Discover how our drifast stain collections can improve the look of hardwood floors. Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based wood stain which provides beautiful rich color that enhances the natural wood grain. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.

The wood on my floors is red oak. They already look great in their natural colors. Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut. I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.

It applies easily and. This floor has a mixture of half minwax special walnut and half minwax dark walnut. If you are lucky enough to have an exotic rare or special wood floor such as mahogany cherry rosewood walnut aged pine and even maple then we strongly recommend they don t be stained. Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.

I wanted to avoid orange undertones. I think it s also very pretty and i do like that it s a bit lighter and less red so it might not show dirt as much as the straight dark walnut. The poly finish is satin. Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary.

Our drifast stain collection offers a wide range of colors from contemporary traditional and classic. Most people stain their floors in an attempt to get them to look like one of these awesome floors. Gray flooring is very on trend at the moment so worth considering if you re building from scratch or refinishing an old floor and really want an updated look gray floors have the advantage of being a more interesting neutral than medium brown but unlike medium brown and perhaps because they are so trendy right now they tend to be paired with mostly modern.