Walnut Stained Maple Flooring

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Walnut stained maple flooring.

Oak maple and hickory are hardest and better at resisting dents and scratches. If you are lucky enough to have an exotic rare or special wood floor such as mahogany cherry rosewood walnut aged pine and even maple then we strongly recommend they don t be stained. Some are more durable than others. Wide x random length solid hardwood flooring 20 sq.

We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains. These beauties are our new davis table left and a corbett table right which is about four years old. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. Millstead hand scraped maple chocolate 3 4 in.

For the best results test the possible finishes on scrap pieces before you start. You can read what the wood flooring association has to say about maple flooring here. Woods like cherry pine and birch can become blotchy and unattractive when stained unless you use a sealer before staining. Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects.

Thick x 3 1 4 in. Some types of wood like pine cherry birch and maple are notoriously difficult to stain. With bruce you ll find oak hickory maple birch cherry and walnut. Not being satisfied with this answer myself i began experimenting with alternate methods of creating stained maple floors.

New walnut has a consistent dark brown color but as it gets older it does two things. Wood species refers to the type of hardwood used to make either solid or engineered hardwood flooring. They already look great in their natural colors. We had inconsistent flooring in all the downstairs rooms so we had the carpets ripped up had the cherry stained maple kitchen floor sanded down to natural had unfinished maple installed in the rest of the downstairs rooms and then had all of it stained dark walnut.

1 unlike maple and cherry it gets lighter and 2 a rich honey color starts to come through the grain. The results have been beautiful. Case 7 79. Simply put maple is not a hardwood flooring wood that should be stained.