Classic Gray Hardwood Floor Stain
Rubio monocoat fumed reacts with the tannic acid in hardwood causing the flooring to turn gray.
Classic gray hardwood floor stain. Wood has many and different appearances a variety of colors patterns and grains. In the above pictures you see different ratios of white ebony. We test different levels until we find the right level of gray that our customer prefers it could be dark gray light gray or somewhere in the middle. My top recommendation is bona traffic hd.
We started off by exploring three stain mixes all by miniwax. This sinks deep into the surface penetrating into the wood fibers to accentuate the grainy texture of the wood. We will test the gray colors on your hardwood floors. Grey hardwood floors vary in many different ways depending on the species of wood the intensity of the stain and the variation of the coloring.
Well first the stain is a combination of ebony and white wash. We knew we did not want to go the traditional route of dark walnut but give new life to hardwood flooring in this new build. Gray is a mixture of black and white but grey color is very rare in nature. The dark gray will help hide and drown out the red tones.
Most often we see warm or cold shades of gray with hues of yellow brown or beige hues in the warm end of the gray palette or blue and green tones in the cold end. Classic gray classic gray with weathered oak 50 50 and then a lighter mix of weather oak and gray can you guess what we went with. You are limited to. You want to avoid oil based polyurethane poly as this will turn the gray yellow and it will look very unattractive.
Minwax gray wood stains are richly textured oil based wood finishes that delivers a stunning long lasting finish for natural grain wood furniture. But a high grade water borne poly will do the trick as it won t yellow. Minwax classic gray stain. So we went with a 50 50.