Pickled Oak Stain Floors
For both pickling and whitewashing seal your floors with a clear water based finish.
Pickled oak stain floors. The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species. The whitewash collects in the darker grain creating a sort of sun bleached negative of the natural wood for a weathered driftwood look. This is much whiter than the white stain options from minwax pickled oak and duraseal country white.
As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. Go to top of page button. Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets. So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using.
Follow the steps below to see how to pickle wood furniture. Stay clear of oil based finishes which will yellow the white hue. We have found those to be a bit too watery so they aren t as translucent or white as most people expect. 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 best white stain we ve found is bona white. If you re wanting to go slightly darker than the pickled oak or wanting stain with hints of brown and gray you should probably give weathered oak a try. Enhance the look of hardwood floors wood trim wood furniture and doors with interior stain or clear coats. Essential oak semi transparent water based interior wood stain.
Along with furniture like the red oak bench shown here pickling is a great choice for pine floors beadboard wainscot and paneled shutters. All of the wood types accepted the stain well except the non conditioned birch side. I ordered the. If the finish is too damaged to repair with a touch up coat of fresh material or if the wood itself is stained or damaged there may be no alternative to stripping it.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat. This stain added very little color to any of the boards maybe slightly lighter with a tinge of green but really brought out their natural color and grain. It pulls hints of gray which helps to give it the weathered look. The experts at the diy network recommend wiping the stain against the woodgrain after it s been applied this ensures the stain is worked into the oak s grain and pores.