Gray Stained Oak Hardwood Floors

Some prefer lighter some prefer darker and some prefer somewhere in between.

Gray stained oak hardwood floors.

The grain of the wood is still visible on all the samples with one coat. White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain. I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck. Over the last 7 years gray hardwood has become super stylish and continues to grow faster and faster.

We ve been getting more and more requests to stain hardwood floors gray. Gray stained floors tend to turn out best on white oak flooring. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species. Modern gray greige and brown gray stain shades for hardwood flooring.

Wall colors for red oak. You can consider pastels aquamarines and darker shades as well. Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results. Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.

Be bold and paint your walls red to turn up the heat to the max. Because this was a mixed stain it cost a little more per square foot. Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look. General finishes gray gel stain.

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. It has a slightly blue tint to it but the color is fairly consistent from one wood species to the next. Stain can turn out blotchy on maple floors as these are close pored species this blotchiness occurs with all stain colors. The general finishes grey wood stain is highly pigmented so one coat of stain is all you need for most applications.

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. There are a few methods. Blue is also a great choice for red oak hardwood floors. 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.