The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week.
Whitewash red oak floors.
White gray and clear.
I ordered the.
Minwax has a whitewash pickling water based stain and am wondering how this might look on red oak floors the project is a contemporary home remodel.
The floor contractor patiently bleached a series of sample red oak floor boards to see what the floor would look like with three different stains.
American cherry brazilian cherry or pines which typically have orange or reddish undertones.
Most whitewashed floors work best with american canadian hardwoods such as oak especially white oak maple and birch.
Dan s floor store 904 887 8303 whitewashed refinished the old yellowed red oak wood flooring for homeowners on the tpc side of sawgrass.
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My whitewashed red oak floor isn t finished yet but we did get the most important and definitely the most difficult step finished yesterday the actual whitewashing of the wood floor.
You can still see a hint of.
Oct 18 2018 white wash wood floors.
The floors after two rounds of wood bleach.
These test boards were bleached twice.
Diy whitewashed red oak studio floor part 1 i gave the stain a couple of days to make sure it was really good and dry and then i mixed up my custom white tinted polyurethane to seal the floor.
When i saw this i knew there was hope.
I only used the white tinted polyurethane for the first two coats and i brushed on these two coats using a 5 inch stain and waterproofing brush.
The main reason for this is that red oak has red undertones in the wood so when you add whitewash your get a bit of a pink look which is very unappealing for most.
White floors do not work well with reddish woods e g.
So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using.
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Occasionally you ll find some with ash or hickory.