Floor Stain Colors?
We’re having our wood floors refinished and I’m wondering if anyone loves any of these Minwax colors. I need to pick a stain. The floors are oak and I think I want a mission brown or darker. I will make up samples but would love some advice on what colors look good in real life….
We’re having our wood floors refinished and I’m wondering if anyone loves any of these Minwax colors. I need to pick a stain. The floors are oak and I think I want a mission brown or darker. I will make up samples but would love some advice on what colors look good in real life. We’ll be putting down oil-based poly too.
I used Hunter Green on my living room floor which is maple. I couldn’t be more pleased with the striking results.
It’s really a matter of preference. Definitely try it on the actual wood you are using for the floors as 10:19 suggested. All woods are different and the same stain can look radically different on different woods. One my oak floors I used a mixture of 75% of a dark brown stain and 25% of another reddish one, in order to get some warm depth to the darker brown. Don’t be afraid to experiment a little and get 3 or 4 small cans of minwax for testing. The colors on the sample card are really just a rough guide.
I used the Minwax Jacobean stain on oak and I love it.
Nice dark color, but not black.
Check these out, it might help you with your question.
http://renovatingonthecheap.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-chose-minwax-puritan-pine-218.html
and
http://renovatingonthecheap.blogspot.com/search/label/Bed-Stuy%20Renovation%20Floors
Red oak is the species that minwax uses to produce all their color samples. Allow lots of time for stain to dry as minwax is not a “fast-drying” oil stain. Treat the sample the same as the finished product. Sanding sealer and the inherent yellow tint of the poly will effect the ultimate color of the finish.
one piece of advice try to get samples of the stain on actual oak. What we used to do before staining was we would take a small piece of the wood or flooring we were about to stain and stain it with the color we were thinking about using b/c how the stain looks varies alot depending on the wood its being stained on.