early american stain on oak

You can also use Neutral to lighten the shade if needed. And they look great when done properly as you can see with this stain mix of Sedona Red + Ebony…. I wanted to match the porch ceiling wood and the exterior corbels with the wood on our floors. It has natural oak flooring with that typical yellowish hue. Inspired by the colonial period, Early American takes its root in classic European tradition. I am debating whether to go with Jacobean, English Chestnut, or Dark Walnut. Knots of various sizes are also to be expected, even though some of the samples show below appear to be clear. Thanks! Thank you very much Tadas. For your dark expresso color try mixing Ebony with Jacobean or Dark Walnut like you said. Hi Tadas, Have you ever worked with Australian Blackbutt hardwood flooring? You’re welcome, glad to be of help. Thank you for your help. What we found was disheartening. Chestnut would definitely stay within the realms of the safe colors as your furniture has the redish hues. There are sealers too that can be used under water based coatings that offer similar looks. Also wondering if there is much difference between Bona Jacobean and DuraSeal? We want to go with a medium brown-yet-warm stain. Thanks for the compliments, glad you enjoyed it. but not stained just yet. I’ve really enjoyed reading your articles here. We’ve sanded dark stained floors back to natural before and never had a problem. If you want to go with a hardwax oil, then you have the option to use a stain under the oil (for OSMO Polyx-Oil and Pallmann Magic Oil), or go with a pre-tinted colored finish. I like the look of a lighter color for our small space. Set your store to see local availability Add to Cart. Sounds like you have a wonderful house. Is Jacobean too dark? I was wrong!! Yes they were water popped. I greatly appreciate your help. Hello Tadas, I could really use some advice! So my point is, make sure you get references and pay the extra few dollars. As far as brand of stain, we use a few different ones depending on what look we are trying to achieve. Do you have another suggetion to a lighter non red stain? I think all the sanding needs to be completed before going to the staining phase don’t you agree? Good luck with your hardwood floor staining and refinishing project! Both are very nice colors. Hi Tadas, thankyou for this very helpful post. You’ll get a much better idea that way and it’ll be fun to do together :). He says that doing a second coat of any stain won’t darken the appearance. Early American 230. Will it look okay if we go with a very dark floor stain? Sorry for the delay in replying, another busy week here! I am not sure if you are still responding to this blog, but I have a real problem I am hoping you can help me with… We want to stain our red oak floors a dark color. They look great! I hope your project goes well for you when you decide to start. Start with all of basics like royal mahogany, ebony, walnut and chestnut and go from there adding more or less and then different colors as you go. Unfortunately you have no other choice but to sand the floors to bare wood again and start from scratch if you want to change the stain color. We are currently planning to stain our oak hardwood floors. As you know, it’s going to be a little difficult tying in all 3 different woods downstairs. –Frank. I would like a warm brown, something to cut the red. But if you’d like to change the color of your hardwood floors and have a surface finish applied, then they will need to be stained or have a pre-treatment done to them. Thanks for the offer of help as well. You have to decide on something you like that will look good with your furnishings long-term. To be honest I couldn’t tell you the color unless I had a look at it in person. I’m mentioning it, just in case one of your website visitors happens to read this. But having a look, yes they are pretty much in the same range. I am in Georgia or I would just hire you : ). Since we don’t, we ended up going the DIY route. Is water popping the only way to achieve the deep stain? If you’ve narrowed your choices down to 2 or 3 colors then you’re well on your way to getting the perfect stain for your hardwood floors. 6. Once the stain and finish goes on there’s no turning back. Oak wood has a porous quality to it, which makes it very absorbent of staining materials. Apart from looking in magazines and online, you can also take a trip down to your local big box hardware store and browse through the flooring isle to see what tickles your fancy. Here’s a blog post I wrote on water popping to help you out on this subject: As far as choosing the stain color, we usually do that before the job has begun. After four passes (starting at 40 ending at 100) the original stain was still creeping through the pores of the soft grain and between the planks in a number of places. Hi, I am refinishing my staircase which is red oak and want a warm brown color. Yes Acacia can be stained. please help any advice would be appreciated. We have installed #2 common red oak, 2 1/4″ planks, throughout the house & plan to finish them with Rubio Monocoat. Thanks, you have so much helpful information! This blog is terrific and you are very kind to share your knowledge so generously!! They may be able to be fixed, or worse case, just replaced. I’m guessing it must have been an oil based finish applied because water based wouldn’t make it darker. Then he put 2 more coats and it’s dark now. Experiment with a few colors to see what you like. Thought of this after reading the following article about various ways to fill gaps: http://www.cinhome.com/gapfiller.html. Your husband is right about red floors being out at the moment. Then you have a decision to make. Stain colors will look different depending on the type of wood too so make sure the sample is the same wood as your floor. Yes I’ve heard of them but we don’t use them here. Early American is our go-to dark wood stain color. Shop Minwax Wood Finish Oil-Based Stain Early American Interior Stain (Quart) in the Interior Stains department at Lowe's.com. We are getting ready to install hardwood floors in our entire 1st floor. Hi Tadas, I never knew picking a floor color would be so difficult. More important though is the quality of the finish. How frustrating! I wish I had come across you earlier! We have been told it was from water popping, humidity, the floor color (50:50 ebony and jacobean mix). To fix it you’ll need to allow sufficient time for the stain in the gaps to dry and then start over. You would go with something much bolder and modern like Ebony, True Black, Dark Grey, Graphite or one of the Rubio Monocoat mixes. That would look great with light gray walls if you want something different and trendy. Great site! Unfortunately no, we haven’t worked with Blackbutt yet. At this point, I hate them. I think I may be too late with this reply sorry. Your blog has been very helpful! Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display, (Comments are moderated and may take a couple of days to be approved.). As far as number of coats, personally I would put on 3 thin coats for a rental. I think two colors should be fine. I used it mixed with Golden oak to match the stain on my new white oak treads to the mellowed natural red oak that was polyed with oil based poly which mellowed very golden. They said that’s the darkest they could go is there anyway you could tell me how to get them as dark as your pic and what product to have them use? As far as your other question, Provincial will not be darker than English Chestnut normally, but if you water pop the floors (see this post here) then you’ll be able to get it darker. The flooring is white oak and I was looking to go with a dark stain? As always, prepare lots of samples to help make the right choice. Yes you can mix at any ratio you like. There is not much info out there to reduce the red without going very dark-I just want a warm brown. Thanks. Any suggestions? It’s still very “farmhouse” feeling, but with a new twist! The 1st floor oak flooring has English chestnut stain throughout kitchen, living room, dining room and smaller bed room. ~ thanks! The products that have made Minwax® an American icon will add color and beauty to your wood—in oil or water-based stains. I went to see a neighbor’s floor that our current contractor recently finished. Our doors and trim are solid oak and our kitchen cabinets are birch, all stained with Early American. We have a problem don’t know if you can help. The floors that we have currently made are pretty much all 8’long stock and we make the blanks oversize through the rip so we can keep them extra straight out of the moulder. Thanks again for helping out from so far away. thanks so much. Thanks for coming back and giving us an update with your experience, we appreciate that a lot. I hope you can get it sorted. You can see an example of a stained hardwood floor with white cabinets we did for the Waterson family in Glen Ellyn, Illinois about halfway down the page here: In the end though it’s up to you and personal choice :). I say go for it. All are not too dark and are more brown than orange. Now we have two different scenerios. We later tested the fir stains to see what matched best with the red oak stain we liked. You won’t get an exact match but you’ll definitely get something you’ll be super happy with. Can I pick your brain. My floor guy didnt do any samples for me. The dark flooring that has really caught my eye happened to be Brazilian cherry flooring with walnut stain to tone down the red. … recently had our 1920 parquet floors ‘professionally stained’ sadly, as a ballerina I had NO idea the impact a boring medium brown floor would have): Husband has graciously sweated… re-sanded… re-stained …& sweat again to give me the dark ebony of my dreams. General Finishes Water Based Wood Stains are formulated to provide workability similar to oil-based stains. You’ll be able to get the color you want as well as having the finish be repairable and if looked after well you will never need to sand them again. Most are either white or cream colored. Hope this helps a bit Gabby. Unfortunately, it is much, much to light. Dark floors will absorb light and have the opposite effect. 2) Keep the floors natural or use a light colored stain (Golden Oak perhaps if your taste is country) and enjoy the difference in the woods. Yes you could definitely mix Dark Walnut and English Chestnut together to get a great red/brown look. Maybe check out the colors Provincial, Special Walnut or Early American by MinWax and see if they suit your style. This will give the best “color match” between the different floors but may be too dark for your taste. This can be one of the toughest decisions you’ll have to make when it comes to refinishing your hardwood floors. Apply to wood for long-lasting, translucent stain. Do you think it will work well for me? You won’t be able to stain again anyway as it looks like there is already a finish coat on the floors. Has it been sanded yet? The kitchen is cheap natural colored pergo, which looks fine against the Red Chestnut. I am making some 8″ red oak plank floors for our office and have had others show interest in buying some. Unfortunately once the stain is down, plus 3 coats of finish on top, there’s not much you can do other than sand it off and start all over. Our second floor has 3 bedrooms with red oak from the 1940 renovation. Just found your blog – great information. More Options Available. Help! We are getting ready in next few months to tear out carpet and put down red oak wood floors. Good luck Teresa, let us know how it turns out. They looked nice 20 years ago and still look nice today. Complete nightmare! For example, if you want a country, farmhouse theme in your home, then you won’t want to stain your floors Dark Ebony or Jacobean, you would go for something like Early American or Colonial Maple. When this article was originally written almost 9 years ago, dark colors were all the rage in magazines. Took your advice and you are dead on (again). Unfortunately we have three different types of wood downstairs – oak in the dining and living/family room, spruce in the kitchen, fir in the sun room. Excuses, excuses :). Many people think ‘staining’ means applying the top coats of oil or polyurethane. Fantastic. On the link below you’ll find the pics (the very first one is when it had the lighter flooring before I purchased the house). On the other hand, if you’re going for a more modern contemporary style, you won’t want to put down a color like Sedona Red as it would look completely out of place. May be a little too dark for my place though. I definitely want to warm up the floor. We are also refinishing cabinets to white and looking for a modern, but rich deep contrast. At this very moment we’re salvaging a floor that a “professional” company messed up big time. To answer your question – that’s a Maple floor stained red mahogany (Bona brand stain). I’m not loving the colour:((((( any suggestions? Was told we will have to resend and start over but am not sure how to avoid the redness. But I don’t have a clue about finishing or staining. What are your thoughts and how do I get that perfect very dark color again without the lines? I am very committed to using healthy finishes in our home. If they’re quite wide then you could use wood flour cement or even hot glue to close them up. Slightly raised. Try Jacobean and then 50% Jacobean and 50% Natural. So if you have a full house running through, scuffing things up, tracking dirt and dust in and you don’t want the stress of continually cleaning up, you may want to consider a lighter color. Unfinished Planed Douglas Fir. I applied 3 coats of waterborne polyurethane. 1) I know your windows are small, but if you have light colored walls you could blend the two floors all in together with a darker stain. Thank you for sharing! Thanks! But in the flooring industry, those are referred to as ‘finishes’. Hi Tadas, I currently have a floor that is a custom stain (Duraseal 50% ebony; 50% antique brown). It was thought to add gray to the color? I am after a Pottery Barn/Ballard Design look with neutrals and seagrass/sisal rugs. Gunstock 231 ... Minwax ® Gel Stain Aged Oak. Style of decorating will be contemporary/classic. Required fields are marked *, Please answer the question below before submitting your comment: six  +   =  7 .hide-if-no-js{display:none!important}. One last resort thing you could do if you decided to go with a 3 coat surface finish instead of Rubio is to carefully paint the joints out between the first coat and second coat. I also want to go all Ebony, the current 50:50 mix looks like Walnut brown to me personally. Wood Species: ... Color: Early American. Any help is much appreciated. We’re installing new red oak select in 1 bedroom and hallway. If I were to use Minwax Satin finish would that be protective enough or should I use something better? It has a warm, authentic look with unique grain patterns which can really become showpiece of a home. If the finish doesn’t adhere properly, I’m sorry to say, but your husband may be sanding all over again :(. Thanks!! Or you could do 50% Provincial and 50% Natural for a nice “shade darker and warmer”. We have laid 5″ white oak with character everywhere and are trying to decide on a Minwax stain. Largely, on your very positive response I’ve decided to go for it. Our main floor has a douglas fir floor (original from 1888) in the living room and red oak from the 1940’s in the rest of the rooms. I understand your finish dilema, it can be a tough decision. It looks good doesn’t it. Make sure you get hold of a large sample and keep it up against the cabinets for a few days so you get a good idea of whether you like the look or not. If Jacobean is too dark you can mix it with another lighter color to come up with a blend. Wall color will be light tone (cream or very light coffee). Yes you’re going to have a hard time getting a color that “doesn’t hide all the grain & interesting burls… but that also brings a little uniformity to the sometimes wild tonal variation between all the planks – without looking like we just painted the floors.”. They spread easily, can be repaired, blend effortlessly and have plenty of open time. Also look at Jacobean for a mid-dark non-red stain color. Superior wood stain saves time, energy and provides a great value. Yes any product like that will darken the floor. Thinking jacobean, dark walnut or coffee brown. Let us know how it goes. Unfortunately, yes, you need to wipe off the excess stain as you apply it. Does special walnut minwax over red oak select leave a medium brown overall look without seeing so much graining? We are putting down heart pine flooring and have gone back and forth on the finish. I recently refinished my 50 yr old red oak floors with minwax english chestnut in a satin finish. Hope that helps. Then it looks like you’ve tried to match it but missed the mark :), Helllo I was wondering how you achieved the dark stain on the first picture on this blog? After reading your reply and realizing the challenge I was up against with trying to make three different types of woods match, I decided to play it safe and keep all the floors their natural color. One of the best places to see different flooring styles and colors is in that stack of home decoration and renovation magazines you have piled up in a corner somewhere. Give it a go anyways in a small out of the way area and see for yourself. Something like this: http://www.houzz.com/photos/87686/Oakley-Home-Builders-traditional-kitchen-chicago, Any advice you could give would be great! You can still get lower VOC oil modified finishes though that will give that nice deep amber look. We live in VA and have a 110-yo farmhouse that we’ve given a complete facelift. Unfortunately we are a long way from Naperville but I’ve enjoyed reading your posts and tips. My contractor is putting in new red oak floor in my bedroom and refinishing the existing red oak floors in the living room/kitchen (its a small 650 sq ft apt). Or if you think it looks good at it is. 2. Can you help? You could also look into fuming the floors first to turn them grey and then stain over the top. Is it really that bad? I am refinishing my floors next week. The Castle brown was too dark. I’ve noticed that some of the planks have some areas where the wood has split or chipped off. Now we’re seeing a bit of a swing back to lighter colored stained floors, while still having many clients choose a dark stain. Sorry I can’t give you an exact formula Brian. After researching I think it may be called “bleed back”. Hi I have an entire house of 6inch hickory and trying to decide on stain color for floor and stairs / handrail – about 3500 sq/ft of wood so I need to get the color right… what color would be more timeless in your opinion? Your white furniture will definitely stand out. I have a foyer and dinning room that is heart pine floors that we pulled out of an old house and redone. Since I decided, JUST to have the floors sanded and polyurethane, I thought any floor guy should be able to do that. Maybe get your stager to pop over to help you with the choice as well, they’re usually very good with colors and style. Anyway, I’m not sure how good these guys are and they tell me that dark stain will cover them. Not only a sample of the stain, but also with the finish applied as the color will change again. We don’t go out of our way to advertise it because we love refinishing hardwood floors more, but at least once a month we’ll do the full package and install, sand and then refinish a hardwood floor for a client :). I would like to stain it in a Jacobean Blend with gray 75-25, Dark Walnut or Espresso but I am not seeing many examples out there of Acacia being used or re-stained. Our flooring guy has done two samples so far, one us very light (he said that was just grey over the red oak) and the other was darker when he first applied it but as it dried it lightened up and picked up a bluish tinge (that was called Slate). Tadas, I loved your article and your comments! refinishing dark floors. Historic Reconstructions: Continuing the Timber Frame Tradition, Timber Framing vs. Post and Beam Construction. Any suggestion on the stain color for the floors? The color I chose from the samples on my floor is Medium Brown. The first coat was so pretty. Yes they can be stained, but it can be tricky staining tropical wood because of the natural oils in them. Then it was finished with an oil based polyurethane. With these colour schemes the current floor colour seems out of place and I was wondering if you could suggest a stain colour so that the rooms feel warmer and also mix with the black/white colour-schemes for the furnishings. Due to variances in computer monitors, colors displayed may vary from actual stain colors. system should you choose for your floors? It is dark brown in color with warm undertones. Hi Tadas, I recently bought a condo. I would go with the brand of stain your floor guy is familiar with as you don’t want him experimenting with unfamiliar products/systems on your floor. I just wrote another blog post about it here: https://napervillehardwood.com/blog/what-is-water-popping/. Sorry you had a bad experience with the first guy you hired. Our current house is a ranch, the main level is Red Chestnut throughout – bedrooms, living room, and dining room. Beth. Hope you sell your house quick Karishma. 1) Stain in the gaps between the boards isn’t dried properly. Just a thought but worth considering along with the other options. You really shouldn’t have a problem if its only in a smaller area. So the stain color is a very big commitment. Minwax Stain For Red Oak Floors This week we had to choose the floor stain which I thought would be my favorite since I already had an idea of what I liked. Was thinking of going with 3 parts early american and 1 part english chestnut for a richer tone and depth. Plain sawn red oak is the way it has been cut at the mill. Very helpful. You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons. Thank you. Hi Tadas, My floors are oak in a golden color with wider planks and the room is an L shape with the dining room. I had a hard time deciding on a colour, we wanted to go with Gris beige from Monocoat. This was the old type of finish before the new VOC laws. If you leave a thick coating of stain on the floors, the finish won’t adhere and you’ll have a huge mess on your hands. I am refinishing the floors of my newly purchased 1965 ranch home. 5. weathered oak (heavy-handed) + early American allowed to sit for 5 minutes before wiping off. Sounds good to me. It is greatly appreciated! which color stain of the two is most likely the color(Milwauee), and do I use varnish or poly on top of it for protection? Hi Rivki, I would definitely use something better for your floors. For that reason, oak is attractive with nearly any color of stain. It’s a very large room and the ceiling is done with the same wood that is why we thought of staining for some contrast. I forgot to tell you that the floors are white oak. I’m pretty sure it was Duraseal. I guess it depends on your taste and furnishings. Sorry for the delay, we’re crazy busy at the moment and at times I’m finding myself without enough time at the end of the day to reply to these messages. There’s no way you can have professional results without well trained employees, spending the proper amount of time on each job and using high-end equipment and products – all which cost more money unfortunately. You should be able to find images of houses with all sorts of wood flooring colors, stains and shades within them. These colors go with a lot of different styles of decorating so the new owner will be able to picture their furnishings in the space, which will be very important for selling. I know it’s not the easiest way, but it will definitely get you the darker color you want. thank you, Hi Tadas, these are the colors I’m looking for. The other ways you can change up the color of your floor is to use a colored hardwax oil like Rubio Monocoat or Pallmann Magic Oil, or use a dye. Ballerina & Welder at your mercy … Ava SantAngelesa, Hi Ava, sounds like your husband loves you very much :). 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