We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
Red oak gray hardwood floor stain.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
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.
The dark gray.
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.
White oak for flooring has a broad selection of colors that range from white to dark gray brown.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
You are limited to the gray that it turns.
Real hardwood floors need a lot of upkeep and maintenance.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
The first thing we did was to remove the carpet and the bi fold doors.
Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.
We quickly discovered there was beautifully preserved red oak hardwood flooring underneath all of that carpet.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
By the way if you missed my post on choosing the best farmhouse style floor stain then read it here.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
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.
There are a few methods.
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.
Red oak floor stain colors 12.