Pine Floor Stained Dark

By tim johnson antique pine often has a dark mellow color.

Pine floor stained dark. For those that want the simple pine look that isn t too light or too dark you should turn to puritan pine stains. Eastern pine wide plank floor. Experiment with sealing the wood on your next pine project. It s a very glamorous classic look that will go with a lot of different furniture styles.

Those sweet little chips are easy to stain precisely because they are little. Even though stain manufacturers provide sample chips of stained maple or pine do not be fooled. It is a simple diy tutorial and i use a scrap piece of pine wood to test the stain color that i will be us. To ensure a dark finish use a medium grit sanding sponge or the equivalent sandpaper which is about 100 grit.

This is the classic pine style and has the added benefit of matching almost any theme or color scheme. Antique pine often has a dark mellow color. Dark stains on pine can look horrible. In this video i show you how to stain pine wood.

Stained dark with zar s moorish teak and finished with waterlox tung oil system. It s easy to end up with megablotches and it s hard to avoid grain reversal a peculiar effect that makes stained pine look unnatural. The hope is we can save the floors living underneath the parquet in the other rooms. Dark stained floors will help anchor a room and give you the freedom to put light bright colors on the walls or even just white that will add brightness to the room.

There s no easy way out of this a manual sanding job is required. Unfortunately when woodworkers try to duplicate that color on new pine by using stain the results are usually disappointing. Also to keep with the period we face nailed using reproduction wrought iron hand forged nails. I want to select a dark stain that is a little deeper than all the doors trim see pic and wasn t sure what a classic stain color would be.

We are going to hire a pro to sand all the 2nd floor pine floors and re finish including the room with the wax finish. The photo below shows the dramatic difference between the raw and sealed areas of pine using the same stain color. We love this look and so do most designers we work with. Pine wood is a softwood and if you use a power sander you ll often wind up with some noticeable scratches once you apply stain to the wood.

In addition to blotchiness the softer areas between the grain lines soak up stain like a sponge creating an unnatural look.