Good Afternoon! Coming to y’all with a much promised hardwood flooring stain post! I have had sooooo many questions about our hardwood floor stain over the years and although I did blog it HERE, I definitely did not do the best job explaining it. Not to mention the fact that the stain I needed either didn’t exist eight years ago or I just never found it because just as I always do with paint colors, I made up my own concoction!
So here’s the problem… and now a much easier solution! The “problem” is that I LOOOOOVED the look of our 1908 hardwoods (and the early 1900’s hardwoods at our historic flip home) once they were all sanded down but then just a simple clear stain turned them ORANGE!
Clear Stain…
So for our home eight years ago now, I mixed up a whitewash that would basically just cut the orange leaving them looking natural…
And they turned out STUNNING!!!
Then a couple of weeks ago it came time to do the very same thing for our historic renovation with it’s original hardwoods. Although these floors are not in as good shape as our hardwoods, they are definitely worth keeping! We always try to keep and restore as much as we can with historic homes. Even with imperfections, they have so much charm!
But of course once again, although these floors are just naturally warmer in color, they went even darker and even warmer with clear stain (top left)…
But this time we gave this a try and it was PERFECT!!!
Although like I said, these hardwoods are not in the best shape, they turned out really pretty with CHARACTER that I love…
XOXO, Brittany Palazzo
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