The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week.
Whitewash red oak floors.
You can still see a hint of.
So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using.
I ordered the.
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.
Oct 18 2018 white wash wood floors.
White floors do not work well with reddish woods e g.
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.
The floors after two rounds of wood bleach.
For example one of our clients liked the look of unfinished red oak but once the general contractor produced a sample of the whitewashed finish she had requested she was surprised by the.
Occasionally you ll find some with ash or hickory.
So if you want a whitewashed look or even a light to mid gray you ll want to take an extra step and bleach the floors first to camouflage the pink.
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.
These test boards were bleached twice.
White gray and clear.
When i saw this i knew there was hope.
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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.
Most whitewashed floors work best with american canadian hardwoods such as oak especially white oak maple and birch.
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.
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American cherry brazilian cherry or pines which typically have orange or reddish undertones.
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.