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Pickled oak stain floors.
Pickled floor refinishing without sanding can turn out beautiful with the worn wood magic method read on to find out why.
Follow the steps below to see how to pickle wood furniture.
When you talk about pickled floors first of all you have to determine what is a pickled floor.
Once a polyurethane finish is put on top of the stain the shine will also cause the floor to appear lighter.
Pickling is the best choice for white staining oak.
My whitewashed red oak floor isn t finished yet but we did get the most important and definitely the most difficult step finished yesterday the actual whitewashing of the wood floor.
I ordered the.
This should cover the natural pink in the red oak wood flooring and provide an even lighter color tone you are wanting.
In its bare essence a pickled floor is one that is white in its stain tone.
Once the whitewash has dried use a clear water based finish to protect the wood.
Along with furniture like the red oak bench shown here pickling is a great choice for pine floors beadboard wainscot and paneled shutters.
This is much whiter than the white stain options from minwax pickled oak and duraseal country white.
The whitewash collects in the darker grain creating a sort of sun bleached negative of the natural wood for a weathered driftwood look.
We have found those to be a bit too watery so they aren t as translucent or white as most people expect.
Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based wood stain which provides beautiful rich color that enhances the natural wood grain.
Gently brush on the clear finish to protect both the wood and the stain.
So i wanted to show you how it turned out and also share the whitewash stain formula that i ended up using.
The floor still needs to be polyurethaned and that will happen later this week.
If you still want to go even lighter try 3 4 pickled oak and 1 4 classic gray.
The best white stain we ve found is bona white.