Weathered Gray Stain On Red Oak
Happy i didn t go with any of the gray floors.
Weathered gray stain on red oak. 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. Weathered oak on 2 red oak flooring is gorgeous. It barely soaked into the oak at all but looked much darker on the maple. Starting with orange oak the only way to get gray and not mud is to paint them.
How to create a weathered wood gray finish. Stripping to bare wood beyond hugely labor intensive will make the gray go over the raw pink nature of red oak so you get a pink gray more kin to the 80 s pink whitewash g technique than the current fad of gray stain. Ultimately we decided on using a combination of stain and white washed paint paint mixed with water to achieve a more gray tone. I wasn t sure how this custom stain would look over the dark inlays we have in parts of our first floor so i had them sample duraseal silvered gray on the red oak floors next to the stain mix i d used upstairs.
Taking pics tomorrow a little delayed. To get what you want you have to start with a. Gray over orange is just ugly mud colored. It pulls hints of gray which helps to give it the weathered look.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak. They were similar but i still liked the custom fruitwood country white stain mix better. This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting. Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
Reason being weathered oak pulls out so many colors including gray anyway. The weathered oak and classic gray look nice with your wall color. If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray. Weathered oak by minwax seemed to be the most brown of all the stains i tested and hints of gray tones were picked up in different areas of the wood grain.
Note this post contains some affiliate links for convenience. Dark walnut 2716. The color of the varathane weathered gray stain varied widely depending on the wood species. This stain also took two heavy coats for the color to be deep enough for me to really get a sense of the color but it s still a bit on the light side.