Dark Walnut Stain On Red Oak Floors

I tend to view special walnut as a lighter brown stain.
Dark walnut stain on red oak floors. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. 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. I tested minwax jacobean stain dark walnut stain special walnut stain and a mixture of 1 part dark walnut stain to 1 part special walnut stain. The wood on my floors is red oak.
The flooring guys ended up mixing 2 parts natural 1 part provincial. This next picture was also taken last night. You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons. I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
Do you have any suggestions with regard to type of wood and stain. Blues greens so i say go with your gut and for dark walnut. New house has pre finished floors with a reddish tint and this post reminding me how much i miss the warmth of the dark walnut stain it s not that dark and seems to compliment the colors you are integrating into the house. Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
The poly finish is satin. Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors. Help choosing stain color for red oak dark walnut vs provincial. 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 had dark walnut stained red oak floors in my previous house. I would like to install some type of hardwood floor in the kitchen but would prefer to complement our current hardwood floor vs match it. Special walnut is one of the go to brown stains that isn t too dark. I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
See more ideas about stairs design house design staircase design. I wanted to get a look at the colors in different lighting so the picture above was taken last night. When my littles were little we were refinishing our red oak floors i scooped up some dirt in the yard and asked for our floors to be stained close to that color. As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.