It s a lighter color than medium brown.
Classic gray stain on red oak.
The wood types we chose also are vastly different ranging from extremely soft birch to hard red oak with undertones all over the map.
If you want a darker floor dark walnut mixed with classic gray could be nice.
Which will allow the pink blue and purple to show through.
I used two coats to really enhance the gray color that the stain provided.
Special walnut and classic grey 25 75 was beautiful but still had a little too much red showing.
Red oak by nature will always have a red undertone so i would try 1 2 classic gray and 1 2 weathered oak.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
This classic gray stain creates the perfect weathered look without over saturating with too much gray.
You just need the polyurethane on top bona traffic hd for protection.
Dark walnut 2716.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
Classic gray tends to be slightly blotchy so make sure to use pre conditioner with this stain color.
Therefore you are just thinning out the medium brown.
Weathered oak looks too unfinished.
Gray on red oak will always allow the pink blue and purple to show through regardless of the amount applied.
Classic gray and jacobean was beautiful with the grey lines and brown but still a little too dark used 50 50.
The top three have less pronounced grain lines so the color looks fairly uniform.
Pine still looks pretty splotchy and oak has a zebra like effect.
Classic grey stain by minwax was one of my favorite gray stains that i tested.
Weathered oak by minwax.
I liked that it added a gray finish to the wood in a more subtle way and still allowed the wood grain to show through and look natural.
Otherwise you ll have pink mixed in.
Not only does the hardness effect how a wood will accept stain harder woods tend to accept stains better and more evenly but also the natural color of the wood.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.