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Chestnut stain on white oak floors.
Jacobean ebony dark walnut 50 50 jacobean and ebony 50 50 jacobean and dark walnut and english chestnut at the bottom.
Natural wood tones vary so expect your final stain color to vary slightly from board to board.
This will hopefully help you see how pine birch poplar white oak and red oak s undertones play with different stain undertones.
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.
Minwax stain colors on oak 27 test 768 representation custom mixing stains via.
I need some handholding i just selected english chestnut stain for my living room dining room floors.
Lastly we thought it would be beneficial to see all the same wood type with different stains in one picture.
Stain samples on a white oak floor.
Minwax stain colors on oak 27 test 768 representation custom mixing description.
Colors are shown on white oak.
My question is should both 1st floor and garden level floors have the same color stain.
We went with 50 50 jacobean and dark walnut and love it.
The green in the poplar board went to an almost black like in the jacobean stain very stunning.
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.
I disliked the orangy yellow look and i want to go darker but not too dark.
Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects.
Sorry i couldn t be of more help its a bit hard to show and describe colors through a computer compared to in person with large.
It s hard to describe colors but if i worked for miniwax color naming dept i would call it pecan.
My dilemma is what stain to go with.
The 1st floor oak flooring has english chestnut stain throughout kitchen living room dining room and smaller bed room.
I like the look of whitewash as it keeps lower level so bright.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
Minwax design series washes wood effects and waxes offer new options for bare wood and wood that s already stained.
See likewise other 10 awesome hardwood floor stain colors for white oak below here.
For example red and white oak with the same stain color will be a very different look.
Stain colors will look different depending on the type of wood too so make sure the sample is the same wood as your floor.
The refinishing guys put down samples of.