Well i mean test every dark stain if you want dark floors and every light stain if you want light floors.
Gray stained red oak floors.
Duraseal silvered gray stain on red oak floors.
Can i stain my red oak gray.
Ginger if you have red oak and want to do some form of gray you will either need to bleach the floors first or choose a darker gray.
We are considering a mix of weathered oak and mixed with gray stain which i found scouring the net.
There are a few methods.
I m dying to go lighter but i keep reading with red oak i m out of luck.
You may have seen on instagram we are just wrapping up a large set of home renovation projects.
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
All this before we realized the country was about to shut down for covid19.
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.
Red oak has underlying red tones and often a darker gray is needed to achieve the desired look.
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.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
White oak is preferred over red oak for gray stain.
Tips for choosing red oak floor stains.
Red oak has a pinkish tone to it that sometimes interferes with the gray stain results.
We gutted our kitchen in february and emptied the first floor to have the hardwood floors refinished.