Couldn’t be happier. The on-site staining is a bit messier and required some paint touchup, but overall I am in love with both floors! These floors go against light travertine and a lighter patterned tile. Now I’ve installed countertops & appliances are going in & all I see is pink. but either one cant go wrong. This is 5” plank #1 red oak with minwax weathered oak stain with water based sealer. @Maribeth Burns did you end up using oil based or water based? Bona stains on red oak flooring. I just had a sample square of my red oak floors bleached once - still pink - and then a second time and now superrrr light. Bona inspiration for hardwood floors - crafted from trends in fashion, color, home décor and architecture. I just did my red oak floors with Bona NaturalSeal, and traffic HD matte - the floors look like their naturally freshly sanded selves. It’s very natural looking, doesn’t even look like a stain. But, either stain should look good with your walls. @clairepope It's only been a year - so far they are perfect! So good to hear that you were happy with that finish on red oak as well. Saved by Beth Ordman. Our contractor (Huang Hardwoods in Seattoe) applied a few different Bona stains and craft oils, all in an attempt to get us the light, bright floors to compliment our Scandinavian Farmhouse. Can you finished with a different brand water based polyurethane e.g Bona Traffic HD? To have unfinished installed and then stained on site would have been much more expensive, so to me this minor touching up was worth the savings. @Julie Olsen hi! We originally planned on replacing it, but my brother who is an architect told me we’re crazy taking out solid oak floors! Can you show me some pics? We just had our red oak floors stained with minwax weathered oak. We are refinishing existing 2 1/4" red oak floors that are currently a darker stain and completely replacing the floors in some rooms, so we have to stick with red oak. Whitewash looks way better on white oak. Color: Medium Brown. Did you mix with anything else? Does anyone have an opinion on that? Thank you! I love my how my red oak floors turned out. None of these threads mention bleaching the red oak first....I’m considering that before either a natural or a Mohawk stain called weathered oak. These floors bring in a dramatic modern edge to this home. advice, I'd narrow it down to 2 and increase the sample size...maybe in a discrete spot. That having been stated, my easy red oak finish largely negates any need for grain filling, as the stain and the topcoat are thixotropic oil-based gels that act as though they have fillers in them. We have red oak and I was planning on using bona in them to lighten them but I don’t want pink floors! @Jamie B LOVE your floors! This inspirational collection of five gorgeous, customized color style options offers a comprehensive range of stains and finishes to create beautiful floors. Thanks! I’m having him double bleach to remove the red as much as possible. Our stains outperform the competition and are the perfect choice to give your floors a look you’ll love! We ended up selecting Bona HD. I would love to redo the floors in my vacation home to look like that! So weird, it doesn't look anything like that on my red oak floors, yours look beautiful!, I am still sampling stain colors. @16chris78 how are you liking it now? The floor does stain more easily than with our 20 year old Glitsa. 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. For reference here are bona Nordic (top left), classic (top right), intense (bottom left) and natural (bottom right) on red oak with matte (left) and satin (right) finishes, We are renovating our kitchen and floors. Katie, I agree--you need to re-sand and stain them a medium brown color. weathered oak has a hint of gray to it but not much. I love the openness/ natural light—all the windows and the trees . Maria T, do you have pictures of the your red oak floors with Minwax weathered oak stain and Bona Traffic HD. Thanks. Beautiful. thanks for posting and I'll share final pics. ? I'm having my 20-yr old, yellowing oil-poly red oak floors professionally sanded and finished. Pretty happy with how they turned out... the entire floor but it is looking better today bc we actually just ragged it in one direction only which seemed to get a more uniform color. I like either left or right. He uses a lamb applicator with a terry rags after. Even after the poly was done I still just thought it looked fresh & new, but my eyes weren’t seeing red. Red oak stairs - Do I install white oak floors or red? I would go with what you feel good about all around. Such a bummer, Katie. @trump2 It was 1 NaturalSeal and 2 Mega One Satin. They turned out a beautiful puddy color with grey brown variations. @clairepope It's only been a year - so far they are perfect! My contractor was familiar with these products and uses Traffic HD almost exclusively. Following, would like to see floors when you are finished. I've noticed that pics of floors are very different depending on the light. did you add a stain or seal? Get Inspired All stain colors are available in quart and gallon sizes. Thank you! Love this thread! I wish we had bleached the hall flooring because those have a definite pink glow ;-). as you can see, the light, camera angle really changes the color. No bleach (toxic I’ve heard) just Bona Nordic Seal and Traffic. ... Great work! To see the difference, take a plain piece of red oak, sand it - thats the look of naturalseal, then put a little water on it and that is the look of a polyurethane finish without a sealer. Our flooring guy is trying to get us to go with satin but I actually want more of a matte like appears in your pic. Beautiful! Did you add any additional coats? Matte? ... By going to this page you can see a sampling of what colors of Stain bona … Updates have been done over the years. White oak has a smoother less busy look and feel. can't walk on it until Tuesday. I decided to embrace rather than fight the natural redness...and there *will* be some redness. Hooray! We tried three and it made the floors almost blue and much too “milky”. No biggie- I don’t mind because I threw a busy area rug over the hall so nobody pays attention to the pink there. We want to have them sanded down just to a more natural state . We still see subtle pink on cloudy dark Seattle days (especially when the lights are turned on), but the grain is what truly stands out, and you can’t get that in the NordicSeal we learned after seeing both applied to our unfinished floors (image below). This kitchen went from drab to fab, with a more contemporary cool style. Bona HD waterbased polyurethane finish. Light floors would look nice next to that beautiful (walnut?) 1.5k but have a master bedroom above this room being done and do not want to go thru this problem with it. Stains. floors will be completed tomorrow. Bona Traffic Finish - Red Oak Hardwood Floors. Going through the same dilemma now. Bona's new DriFast Stain Collections offer the latest choices for hardwood floor inspiration in your home. Bona Driftwood Stain & Satin Bona Traffic HD on Red Oak in Nesconset, NY. We ended up staining our red oak floors with weathered oak and love it. Our floor refinisher leans toward the natural in a satin finish. 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