Expresso Vs Special Walnut Minwax Floor
I hope you have some left over wood to play with until you can get the color you want.
Expresso vs special walnut minwax floor. 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. Does anybody have a picture of espresso minwax on red oak floors. Ebony 2 espresso 3. Next to my cabinets espresso seemed a little less red.
Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary. Most people stain their floors in an attempt to get them to look like one of these awesome floors. Ebony is too dark espresso is a tad too gray jacobean is a tad too brown and dark walnut is too old school. The next day our super nice floor guy frank applied them to the floor to let us see the stains on our red oak floors.
If espresso looks red on your floor i am guessing that you have red oak floors instead of white oak. View all design series products. Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects. Minwax design series washes wood effects and waxes offer new options for bare wood and wood that s already stained.
Refinishing red oak floors in my house. They are dark walnut provincial and special walnut. Hard to find pics of espresso thanks. 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.
She said to choose one of the three if using minwax and if using another brand use the minwax colors as a comparison and never go darker than dark walnut nor lighter than special walnut. I m deciding between dark walnut and espresso and just can t decide. This floor has a mixture of half minwax special walnut and half minwax dark walnut. A few posts ago we talked about hardwood floor stain colors as we mentioned we narrowed down our options to three.
Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter. If you have red oak one trick you can use is to take fruitwood stain and add other stain colors to it. I have followed this advice and it has never disappointed. 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.
Dark walnut ebony and jacobean. Minwax dark walnut vs. Four colors from the left 1. New wall colors all have grey undertones.
They already look great in their natural colors. Anyone have any ex.