This helps a lot!! I have made two wooden pieces for self use, and I had no clue how much FUN staining could be! Additionally, Iâd say on 95% of our jobs, the stain color of the floor is generally a mix multiple stain colors where they mix both dark walnut and jacobean, or even mixing between minwax duraseal varathane etc. I love when you really get into DIY builder posts. I see more red in the dW – am I correct? We tested a few for ourselves but this is helping me to find some direction in what to try next. This is a really cool post. Ft. of 4/4 and 10 Bd. It delivered rich, dark brown tones. Dura Seal Quick Coat Penetrating Finish 171 Dark Walnut Hardwood Flooring Stain. Although, no red came through with the pine at all. :D Thanks for the comparison – so useful!! I really would like to cool down the warm undertones some, and I am wondering- do you think more coats of the white would do that? Right now the jury is out regarding the pricing. I only want to create more pieces, just so I can stain them, haha! I am thinking I will use a golden oak stain and if it’s not perfect I may add a coat of white over it. haha. Wood conditioner is certainly key (learned that the hard way). This is so helpful!! Guys – this is SUPER helpful! Some refinished do not sand super smooth (finishing below 220) for this reason, and instead use top coats to gain smoothness. Any idea how many coats of stain/poly you used? You want some contrasts. It will look fine. I’m having white cabinets/white granite with greyish Island, and butcher block counters and white windows. Thanks for pulling this together! That was a lot of work. The effect can change not only from stain to stain, but from wood species to wood species and even from one board to another within the same wood species. 123/223 Coffee Brown. This is a great post and helped me decide which stain to use on the twin bed my husband is making for our son! You’d think MinWax would have this on their website. I’m going to try the simply white on white oak. I have a bit of a dilemma in that I have white oak floors in my newly renovated kitchen and original red Oak from 1930 on the rest of my main floor. We applied it then wiped it off after about 2 minutes. Really! Thanks! They look incredible. I am definitely sharing this post with my clients. Not too! There is very little difference between the conditioned and unconditioned white and red oaks, but the other three definitely benefited from the pre-stain conditioner. I will be making a stain choice this week. How many coats of stain did you put on the wood samples shown in the photos? We are about to have ours stained – tomorrow! This effort is sooo great! Any insight on how the gold would affect the stain color? Then came Dark Walnut. Duraseal Quick Coat stain is a quick dry 2-hour formula that ensures your flooring project keeps moving along. The pine turned more gray than anything. Wow, I didn’t realize that about sanding! Looks great! Any experience or advise with this? When you answered 3 coats, does that mean 1 coat stain and 2 poly? This is a Medium video about 12 minutes. I’m going to need approximately 20 Bd. Great post. Took us too much time in make this video. Only one on each. My mistake! Same with hinges. My first go around I noticed an embarrassing amount of blotching from the stain. Thank you for taking the time to document and share the results ! I had to decide quickly (insert problem) for selecting a stain and was not used to staining any type of cedar and made the mistake of teak (color choice). I may do something with some blue glaze to help neutralize the yellow but we’ll see. I’ve never used a pre-conditioner but after a few not so great results, I decided to do so in the future. YOU ARE AWESOME. Do you know how Chestnut stains? This is SO and great and helpful- I seriously loved reading this and studying the results. And of course it is orange once again. DURA SEAL Penetrating Finish is a semi-transparent stain formulated to seal, color and provide exceptional durability when used on bare wood and masonry surfaces. This makes me want to get some wood and stain it for a piece in my house. Love this! Hi, I Am searching for best stain for cedar fence. I am sure it has something to do with the particular piece of wood. Oh dear. This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. Curious how an oil based vs water based would affect the colors especially on the white oak. Call us crazy, but the stain will be going throughout the house (see floor plan here), so we want to make sure it’s absolutely perfect. As a reminder, here are all the types of wood in their natural, raw state: 1. 6. ft./gallon Number of Coats 1 to 2 VOC 550 Shelf Life 2 years We put pine floors in last year and I stained them with a colour called Special Walnut from minwax. Ended up going with red oak and golden oak stain and the color is exactly as seen in person. This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. I love seeing all these options! What is the most popular stain color? I’m a beginner learning how to refinish furniture… sanding is therapeutic to me, and I love seeing the potential in the wood under all the old stain/ varnish. I want to change that to Dark Walnut. Its unique formulation provides a surface that can be topcoated in two hours. Definitely referencing this any time we have a staining project. we saw it in an office and i knew i HAD to have it. I hope that helps. This maybe the most helpful blog post ever. }); Your email address will not be published. Hope this helps others make this tough choice! : ). Jun 29, 2019 - Duraseal stain on white oak. formId: '5d767f96afdf3e000f968472', Weâre so glad you stopped by, and we hope you decide to stick around for a while. Thanks in advance for any help with this. I have an old 90s red oak dining table and I’d like to go for the PotteryBarn “Seadrift” color. !function(d,s,id){var e, p = /^http:/.test(d.location) ? We liked the extra-dark grain, but didn’t feel like the other browns were rich enough. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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. And yes on the water popping! I bought silver-toned door hardware for the painting gray side and antique brass for the side I want to stain. Dura Seal Quick Coat Stains are a premium quality penetrating finish that can be topcoated in 2 to 4 hours. I had never used a pre-stain conditioner and also wanted to see the denefit of doing so. We have been trying to pick a miniwax stain for birch cabinets going into our basement. Thank you. We’re getting mixed messages from people…. Red oak definitely is more tricky, but so beautiful, too. 5. By far the best post I’ve seen on explaining the nuances of staining wood. looking to refinish our hardwood floors. They look too orangey for my liking which I find happens frequently with stains and now wonder if I can go over them in a neutral darker stain but it will be a major mess, time commitment and height bravery (as they are on high parts of our house). lighten, darken, turn redder, etc.)? 199 True Black. If you’re not having success with home improvement store products to get the color you’re after, paying just a bit more for a different brand can really help (or vice versa if you’re wondering why a different brand is giving much darker color). So interesting to see the stains all lined up. I wondered why the pine wood looks such a different color in the picture where you have all the pine boards next to each other vs. in the pictures with the Jacobean and Dark Walnut stains? Birch is a hardwood (both yellow and white) and rates a 4 out of 5 on the hardness scale. Still love the solid wood cabinets, still love the arrangement. I appreciate your work doing this, but now I’m more confused! I bet this would be true for furniture refinishing too! Very useful to see how various woods behave and really helps in choosing what kind of wood to use! I am restoring a significantly damaged Gunn barrister bookcase….in oak….and your comparison has helped me finalize my choice! Is that weird…? Learn how your comment data is processed. So I remembered your post and whipped it up.. thank you. Thank you for posting this! This really helped me determine the piece I am working on is red oak! This was perfectly timed! That is bland. Thanks! The pine looks SO MUCH better with the conditioner. if you have other ideas let me know. It’s a beautiful medium shade that doesn’t read yellow at all. Do you have an picture example you could link me too? I love this! This is another mid-range stain color, but with a more neutral base undertone. Birch did surprisingly well and the oaks were naturals. 131/231 Ebony. My project is to build a side table and coffee table using 1/2″ black iron pipe and then picking an edge glued wood for the top of it. totally perfect sponsored post. This is one of the most helpful blog posts I’ve seen on stain colors. You could even paint it a contrasting color! Any thoughts or stains you might suggest would be so grately appreciated. | MORE ABOUT GREG & ASHLEY |, © 2016 7th House on the Left. Ft. of 6/4. My suggestion would be to use a scrap piece of wood that is the same type that you want to treat, and test your different options. When working with maple or birch, you usually leave the stain on longer to achieve a darker result. Finding the Perfect Lamp for the Living Room and FINALLY Tackling the Honey Oak Game Cupboard at the Bottom of the Stairs. This post was super interesting! Dura Seal Quick Coat Stains are a premium quality penetrating finish that can be topcoated in 2 to 4 hours. 90% of my customers choose a slightly different color on other materials that isn’t flooring. Try reactivating it to view this content. I’ve been researching for weeks and driving myself nuts with my white oak choice. var rsLTKLoadApp="0",rsLTKPassedAppID="714598600"; This content requires JavaScript to be enabled, and the site or browser may be disabling it. All of the wood types accepted the stain well, except the non-conditioned Birch side. 2. Such useful info! Great Post! It can be applied over any wood but is especially necessary when working with soft or porous woods like pine, alder, birch, and maple. PLEASE WATER MARK YOUR PHOTOS SO I CAN FIND THE PROPER SOURCE! Great post & great blog!! Here is an interesting link on hardwoods: http://www.hardwoodinfo.com/consumer/rediscovering-hardwoods/types-of-wood/ Article you wrote was interesting and I will assist those reluctant to try staining to maybe give it a try. I don’t have the same wood as the doors, to do samples on, but I’ve used the conditioner and sampled Red Mahagony (way too purple and dark), Dark Walnut (too dark), Special Walnut (a contender), Gunstock (way too orange), English Chesnut (not too bad), Cherry (very light) Honey (very dark!? Not only did this help me decide on stains, it really helped me to better understand how different wood grains vary. never regretted the choice!! It’s so hard to decide!! Thank You, Thank You Thank You for doing this. It absolutely helped me to decide on a stain color for our floors, and we will use conditioner, which I wasn’t aware was even an option! The ever popular and inexpensive Pine has yellow undertones. We did a very light sanding and did stain these inside. Your illustrations were fantastic and saved me from making a huge mistake. I’m currently working on a dining table for our British Colonial interior using Red Oak and was concerned with color matching the existing dark woods. Chestnut, Jacobean, Coffee Brown, Special Walnut, Provincial, Early American (no polyurethane coating). I am looking to build a platform / platform bed and I have white oak grey pink floors and looking to contrast it with either a less grainy wood like natural Birch, Maple, and not White Oak, but may want to stain it with a semi glossed Charcoal Gray. My only complaint is that you DID NOT WATERMARK YOUR PHOTOS!! Minwax Dark Walnut was the first stain color that I fell in love with when I first started woodworking. Add Minwax Ebony color stain to this experiment! Olympic Stain 56500-5 Maximum Waterproofing Sealant, 5 Gallons, Clear 4.4 out of 5 stars 429. :). The pine turned more gray than anything. Would the stain obscure more of the grain if left on more than 2 minutes? DuraSeal. Help! We have rustic birch floors and they are quite soft, they took a beating to upstairs, moderate use. My floor guy really doesn’t want to change the color of banister and spindles. Also was a polyurethane topcoat added which would yellow the stain some? Thanks for this! Minwax Dark Walnut. We finally had our floors refinished last summer to try to get them a similar color. We literally just finished stripping and sanding down pine stairs that had been painted and coated in sand by the previous owners… yesterday. Did you sand the woods before staining them? You can get a matte finish polycrylic and that often causes the least amount of change. Could you please help me choose the right one? This is a wonderful write up. This was so helpful to see all the stains on the birch board. I’m having pine wood and can’t decide to have it painted white or go with a stain. This next picture was also taken last night⦠Haha! And I didn’t realize how much I loved birch and poplar before this! We see a lot on the web about jacobean and dark walnut but not as much about antique brown. My first piece was an old white oak writing desk from the school where I teach that had been absued over the years. I think you did a good job of investigating, with all the different lighting, what you wanted. Other popular choices are Dark Walnut, Classic Gray, and Early American. Really enjoyed this post! We are in the middle of updating our 1940s fixer upper and last month we stained our upstairs, red oak floors Jacobean and I LOVE them. On our floors, though, it wasn’t dark enough in certain lighting, and it had a lot of unexpected lighter gray tones. Poplar has green undertones. 141 Fruitwood* ... 171 Dark Walnut* 110/210 Neutral. Treating raw wood with conditioner helps prevent streaks and blotches by evening out the absorption of oil-based stains. I really want to stain some birch wood in a medium reddish stain now, for a MCM inspired TV cabinet. Same. Seriously though, I came here looking for some ideas of which wood to use and which stain and now it’s even harder to decide what I want to do. Also agree with comment about poly. We can’t wait to see it… the anticipation is practically killing us! This is so beyond helpful! We really have nothing bad to say about this stain, other than it could stand to be somewhat darker on the non-grain portions. which is not what I want.please help. My walls will be white dove and we are doing grays and blues. Thank you so much – Julia, Great post! We are so proud about this work. I’m also learning a lot from the feedback responses. We came to picked Oak after looking into wax-based finishes (Bona, etc.) What do you think!? Thanks!! My White Oak with Golden Oak Stain is going to look great this weekend :). I was also thinking it wasn’t sanded. I wanted to know how well birch took stain. I am mid-century-modern by design and a touch of industrial (the concrete floor). Hi Maria! DuraSeal® Quick Coat Penetrating Finish is a semi-transparent dark walnut stain formulated to seal, color, and provide exceptional durability when used on bare wood and masonry surfaces. Did you ever regret not using J over the DW? Very interesting! Yes, this is my childhood home. Looks like it could pass for walnut at a glance, especially with the unconditioned side looking like wood grain. Gorgeous! hi, this thread was from five years ago. Dec 22, 2018 - Duraseal jacobean, dark walnut and red mahogany on red oak. simply the best thing I’ve seen on how various stains work on various woods Thank you for doing this. My only wood refinishing project has been a large table and even though it took a lot of elbow grease, was so satisfying and beautiful in the end and much better than just slapping white paint on it. Thank You! Minwax is always my go-to for wood staining, I’ve been using it for almost 20 years now. I have several yellow and knotty pine (I think?) yes! I appreciate any thoughts on this. They were applied and excess removed within about 3 minutes. What are your thoughts on this? We chose to experiment with this stain color because of its mid-range tint with red undertones. Darn! Infact, the grain in some of the boards take on a blue/gray colour. This rich blend of oil and resin gives hardwood floors a soft, satiny sheen. I personally prefer medium colors so I actually really like the medium stains best on the pine (although that birch is beautiful and I wish I was doing that haha). It doesn’t look like it from the red oak samples. Our flooring store offers every color in gallons and in quarts. I really love the Simply White and am considering using it on an antique mahogany piece. And the second one is ‘General Finishes Oil Base Gel Stain’ I read about in this article https://woodimprove.com/best-wood-stains/#product1. It dries quick and doesn’t yellow! So thorough. Thanks so much! I am literally holding off on my cedar plank wall project until I can find a freaking can of it somewhere in the universe lol. more expensive) and there was some improvement. Yours Truly, A very satisfied and intrigued reader :). window.fd('form', { I would like to figure out a way to make them look the same but really don’t like the pink red undertone . Thank you for a fantastically organized review of stains on various woods. 128/228 Medium Brown. We are ultra-excited that it’s finally time for this point in the renovation. 'http' : 'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)) {e = d.createElement(s);e.id = id;e.src = p + '://' + 'widgets.rewardstyle.com' + '/js/shopthepost.js';d.body.appendChild(e);}if(typeof window.__stp === 'object') if(d.readyState === 'complete') {window.__stp.init();}}(document, 'script', 'shopthepost-script'); Your email address will not be published. I’ll use your post to give her some examples. 3. I was going to use quarter sawn white oak vs. quarter sawn red oak. I’m not sure how (or if it is even possible) to achieve the color I want. Do you have any recommendations? It took down the intensity and gave it a softer, slightly aged look. I’m looking for a medium toned, neutral-ish stain (I guess). My husband and my new contractor think I’m nuts. What about bleaching the red oak first then applying the simply white stain? I just sent them an example photo of something I like, but didn’t specify a stain. I’m surprised how subtle simply white was on oak, less painted white looking than I expected. Need your advice. Yes!! Do you think the Red Oak with a Simply White stain would turn pink as it ages? I also tried with and without conditioner, which didn’t seem to make much difference with the darker samples. I’m about to work on a project that consists of staining some wood, so would appreciate any tips! Brand- Minwax stains actually have less pigment in them compared to others like Mohawk, etc. Dang- wish I had seen/used your wood stain tips! Hi- we are struggling between jacobean, dark walnut and antique brown. It took me forever to find this site! I have most of my new doors (they were about a $100 a piece, so they are poplar I guess, maybe birch) painted repose Gray on one side, but the other side I want to stain. Loved seeing all the side by side comparisons. Minwax recently came out with a Simply White stain and I’m in love with it! Thanks for this post! That would be a lot of work but our house is small so it’s doable. Thank you so, so much for this exercise. Love this post! My one tip to anyone doing their own floors is sand everything evenly – we had a couple spots that we didn’t sand as consistently and those areas took the stain much darker than the rest of the floor. I’ve noticed in our new house that some of the pine woodwork is more yellow than others. We let the conditioner penetrate for 15 minutes and then wiped off any excess and removed the tape and got to work applying 6 different stains to all five of our types of wood. Can’t usually see good stain variations anywhere online. I’m curious if you sanded the samples, that also makes a big difference especially with pine… I’m surprised by some of your results on the pine, I use pine with minwax everyday to build furniture and I get very different results. Thank you! I should add, I did solid cherry butcher block countertops, kitchen cabinets painted Repose Gray (as are all walls and trim). Ooh, I could see that! Probably, but you’d likely need a combo of stains and I’m not sure what that combo would be. Thanks for doing all the hard work! What a great post! Hooray for floor stain! 112 Golden Oak* 175 Jacobean* 137/237 Spice Brown. Let’s start with Jacobean. containerEl: document.querySelector('#fd-form-5d767f96afdf3e000f968472') This is so helpful as we’re trying to pick a stain color for a piece of furniture. I love this! This experiment has been a great help! My wife and I have decided on Dark Walnut as well. The finer the grit, the smoother the finish, and the less surface texture for stain to sit in- ergo less color. Feb 27, 2013 - Duraseal stains, from left to right: Dark Walnut, Special Walnut, Antique Brown, Provincial Also, is it okay to stain wood inside the home or are the fumes pretty strong? Thank you! In the process of building a house and the trim color really has me struggling. I know I will always reference this post! You can also find her over at Ashley Brown Creative, which is the home to her online store and brand + web design services. I was surprised how much I liked the poplar in the white stain, I would never have thought to try that, but it really calms down the purples and greens that poplar has, without making it look dull and boring. Oh man, where was this post in the summer when I got new floors?! This was very helpful in moving forward with our birch project! if you happen to know ? White Oak can’t take a bad picture. Everything I’ve used makes my red oak look pink! I would test it in a discreet area. Full Disclosure on Sponsorships & Affiliates, Casual Friday: Polly’s Sleeping, Eating and Schedule at 6 Months old. Not only does the hardness effect how a wood will accept stain (harder woods tend to accept stains better and more evenly) but also the natural color of the wood. Last, is the redder of the two dark stains we experimented with. It should! We are building a house and trying to choose stains for maple cabinets and pine beams and French doors. Thoughts? Kind Regards, Susan However since the top gets plenty of use I put on a coat of varathene. I think the huge variation in poplar might drive me a little crazy, but birch does look awful stunning in those two dark stains. 145 Golden Pecan* 139/239 Rosewood. Plywood if usually birch veneered for these reasons. A few posts ago, we talked about hardwood floor stain colors.As we mentioned, we narrowed down our options to three: Dark Walnut, Ebony and Jacobean. Thanks! Thank you so much for doing this! 171 Dark Walnut 86171 12 81171 6 175 Jacobean 86175 12 81175 6 101 Country White 86101 4 81101 4 172 Classic Gray 86172 4 81172 4 170 Weathered Oak 86170 4 81170 4 173 Espresso 86173 12 81173 6 199 True Black 86199 12 81199 6 Solids 33% to 42% Viscosity 22-65 centipoises Coverage 500 sq. I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I loved pine with the lights and darks, but not the medium stains. I’m going to give it a try. White scares me with upkeep/kids but afraid stain won’t go with design I’m going for. I really appreciate the effort put into this and the comparisons are really useful. We feel like we should have a floor staining party or something! By the way, that article mentions Minwax Stain also. Its interesting because on White Oak, in our experience, the color is much lighter than what is shown in your post. You can see clearly the wood’s color undertones (yellow, pink, green, neutral, red) but they aren’t nearly as pronounced. Bravo! We hope you feel welcome and maybe find inspiration, because we should all love where we live.". Also, did you have the floors “popped” with a water soak to better take the stain (I have read this tip elsewhere). Lastly, we thought it would be beneficial to see all the same wood type with different stains in one picture. "Thanks for following along as we uncover our home's potential. However, when we saw a bigger sample on our floors, we weren’t so sure anymore. :). Anyway, it is so informative and so incredibly helpful. Love my pine floors! Awesome post. This is sososo helpful! I love your choice( I am partial to that shade of wood) and from what you described early on as to what you were looking for I was pretty sure that this was the one you would settle on. Required fields are marked *. Love this post!! Top to Bottom: Nutmeg, Provincial, Special Walnut, Jacobean. Poor kitchen floors, they deserved to match! The unconditioned Birch side, again, struggled with accepting the stain, but you can also see the conditioned side of each board is slightly darker. I do wish we could take it further :) I have a half dozen (or more) cans of Minwax! Super helpful! This was incredibly helpful. Never saw this before. What color stain would you use to achieve a blonde look with Douglas fir? This is super helpful! Second time, I purchased wood that was a bit higher quality (a.k.a. Other wood possibility is oak. I am so glad I found this post and your blog. Minwax Jacobean. THANK YOU!!!! We’re putting down pine floors in our new house and I have probably eight cans of stain sitting a few feet away from me for testing haha! The cherry does not ‘show’ where any of the doors are. We refinished and extended our original hardwood floors and there were gross dark stains on the original floors which didn’t sand out. Thanks for sharing. thank you so much for this. Thanks for that. I just wished you used cedar wood for this experiment (that’s what I’m using on my next project ;p), My only gripe is that I have been trying to find the Minwax Simply White stain, but it’s nowhere to be found both in stores or online. I am sanding a 18C vanity unit that is Chestnut. I loved this post so much! Seriously SO HELPFUL!!! Duraseal also has a wider selection of colors. thanks. I almost want to try it!! Stain Gallery. So helpful with all of the images and great descriptions! Useful helpful post. You said that birch is a very soft wood (extremely) which is incorrect. My question is this: we ripped up the carpet and it looks like there is red oak underneath and the new wood that was put down in the new part of the house looks like a white oak. Note: Stains look very different on different species of wood. Great post! I know that Jacobean was also in the running at the time. But we did 3 coats. Thank you SO much for doing this! Dura Seal Penetrating Finish Quick Coat - Dark Walnut-quart 4.4 out of 5 stars 3. We’re in a rental so we’re stuck with the very dark mahogany cabinets with brushed silver hardware. You’re right, there are so many iterations you could do of wood and stains. However, going really light has some appeal, too, but I can just envision that dingy gold coming through! Thank you for conducting this experiment! Like I said, I wish we could do 15 more of these! Itâs the perfect, medium-dark wood stain with golden highlights that show through the wood grain. Best practice would be to get a piece of walnut and do some tests. Would you do the simply white in a house that might be your forever house? I want a matt black stain with no shine at all. natural with water based poly). 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