It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next.
Gray stained oak hardwood floors.
General finishes gray gel stain.
Wall colors for red oak.
Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring.
There are a few methods.
Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
With its warm tone you can pair a red oak hardwood floor with colors like yellow or apricot to create a warm effect in your room.
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.
Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.
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.
Blue is also a great choice for red oak hardwood floors.
Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot.
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.
Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.
The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
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.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Be bold and paint your walls red to turn up the heat to the max.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.
We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.