I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
Floor stain special walnut.
The poly finish is satin.
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The first thing that happened once we closed on our new house was to get the dingy ambered oak floors refinished and stained.
I think it s also very pretty and i do like that it s a bit lighter and less red so it might not show dirt as much as the straight dark walnut.
The wood on my floors is red oak.
Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.
It applies easily and.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
Why we chose the provincial over other popular wood stains.
Most people stain their floors in an attempt to get them to look like one of these awesome floors.
This floor has a mixture of half minwax special walnut and half minwax dark walnut.
Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter.
Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based wood stain which provides beautiful rich color that enhances the natural wood grain.
In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red.
Our drifast stain collection offers a wide range of colors from contemporary traditional and classic.
They already look great in their natural colors.
Special walnut is very similar to provincial but a tad browner so usually i recommend that a customer tests both colors on their floor to see which they prefer.
After deliberating between jacobean dark walnut special walnut and provincial we finally settled on provincial as our favorite color stain.
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