Luckily many brands already offer pre stained maple hardwood planks so you don t really need to go down the diy staining route unless you really have a very unique or custom blend color in mind.
Maple hardwood floors stained grey.
But i ve found pictures online of maple that looks like this.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
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I think your floors are beautiful.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
He s done well with the other colors i wanted.
Can i stain my existing hardwood floors gray.
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I always water pop.
Having said that diy maple floor staining can be tricky and often best left to the pros.
If you re a commitment phobic shopper choosing interior flooring can feel like a never ending process.
I have a client that wants me to stain their maple floors medium brown.
Staining a floor gray is best to do so on a new floor rather than an existing floor.
But he now says that maple can t look this way that it is all oak.
I am a licensed c15 hardwood floor guy who usually uses bona drifast stains.
In addition its available in a wide range of shades to fit your personal style.
We opened up hard maple flooring with 80 grit then used reclamation from weatherwood stains.
Hardwood that has just been installed will not have any old finish that can have an affect on the way the gray stain is taken by the wood.
Simply put maple is not a hardwood flooring wood that should be stained you can read what the wood flooring association has to say about maple flooring here staining maple is generally not recommended by finish manufacturers since the dense grain does not allow the penetration of most.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
However this makes maple floor durable harder than oak and less prone to denting.
Every test run he makes at it turns out looking like the floor was just painted gray rather stained light gray.
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I am interested in using the water based dye the coating over it with the medium brown stain and then finishing off with bona wood line.
Freshly installed hardwood is the perfect starting point for a gray stain.