The wood on my floors is red oak.
Floor stain special walnut.
Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter.
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Why we chose the provincial over other popular wood stains.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based wood stain which provides beautiful rich color that enhances the natural wood grain.
Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary.
I think it s also very pretty and i do like that it s a bit lighter and less red so it might not show dirt as much as the straight dark walnut.
Special walnut is very similar to provincial but a tad browner so usually i recommend that a customer tests both colors on their floor to see which they prefer.
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.
After deliberating between jacobean dark walnut special walnut and provincial we finally settled on provincial as our favorite color stain.
I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
I wanted to avoid orange undertones.
Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
Jul 19 2016 explore geoff s board wood floor special walnut on pinterest.
In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red.
They already look great in their natural colors.
Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.
The first thing that happened once we closed on our new house was to get the dingy ambered oak floors refinished and stained.
It applies easily and.
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This floor has a mixture of half minwax special walnut and half minwax dark walnut.
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The poly finish is satin.