Gray flooring is very on trend at the moment so worth considering if you re building from scratch or refinishing an old floor and really want an updated look gray floors have the advantage of being a more interesting neutral than medium brown but unlike medium brown and perhaps because they are so trendy right now they tend to be paired with mostly modern.
Floor stain special walnut.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
If you are lucky enough to have an exotic rare or special wood floor such as mahogany cherry rosewood walnut aged pine and even maple then we strongly recommend they don t be stained.
Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter.
In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red.
They already look great in their natural colors.
Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary.
This floor has a mixture of half minwax special walnut and half minwax dark walnut.
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Special walnut is very similar to provincial but a tad browner so usually i recommend that a customer tests both colors on their floor to see which they prefer.
Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based wood stain which provides beautiful rich color that enhances the natural wood grain.
Why we chose the provincial over other popular wood stains.
Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.
The first thing that happened once we closed on our new house was to get the dingy ambered oak floors refinished and stained.
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Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
I think it s also very pretty and i do like that it s a bit lighter and less red so it might not show dirt as much as the straight dark walnut.
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.
After deliberating between jacobean dark walnut special walnut and provincial we finally settled on provincial as our favorite color stain.
It applies easily and.