Pickled Oak Stain On White Oak Floors

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.
Pickled oak stain on white oak floors. At the moment i am working on an old student desk made of white oak that i would like to stain in contrasting dark and light shades. Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat. The green in the poplar board went to an almost black like in the jacobean stain very stunning. The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week.
My white oak floors are turning out lovely perfect light greige color. The classic gray looked great but it was much darker than what we were looking for. So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using. Use 1 2 country white 1 4 classic grey 1 4 weathered oak.
Minwax wood finish is available in 24 wood tone colors and can be used to enhance any bare or stripped wood surface. Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. The pickled oak was pretty but i was afraid the floors would look unfinished in that stain the pink of the red oak was still very prevalent.
The whitewash collects in the darker grain creating a sort of sun bleached negative of the natural wood for a weathered driftwood look. If you want a slightly deeper greige use 1 2 classic grey and 1 2 weathered oak. 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. I ordered the.
Follow the steps below to see how to pickle wood furniture. The grey combats the yellow tannin pull from white oak. Along with furniture like the red oak bench shown here pickling is a great choice for pine floors beadboard wainscot and paneled shutters. It pulls hints of gray which helps to give it the weathered look.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. Minwax wood finish pickled oak 260 is an oil based wood stain that provides long lasting wood tone color. My first piece was an old white oak writing desk from the school where i teach that had been absued over the years. Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets.
This makes a light floor. Minwax weathered oak weathered oak is generally used as a lighter to medium stain color. This will hopefully help you see how pine birch poplar white oak and red oak s undertones play with different stain undertones. The minwax wood finish stain penetrates deep into the pores to seal and protect the wood.