The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color.
Red oak grey stained oak hardwood floors.
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.
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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.
So for the second sample i added just a bit of green tint to the stain to try to cut the red undertones of both the stain and the floor.
Unless of course you like pink wood floors.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
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We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot.
It also looked like the actual stain in the can had just a tiny bit of a red undertone to it so red undertone stain on top of red oak isn t really a good combo.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
22 best hardwood floor stain colors for red oak 3 4 x 3 1 4 natural red oak bellawood lumber liquidators.
Be careful with the wood species.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.