Maple Flooring Stain Colors
We then dyed the floor with a fruitwood color to change the base color of the wood from white tan to more of a cherry or red birch color.
Maple flooring stain colors. Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly. Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s. Because of its clean light appearance that is easy to decorate around maple has become the flooring of choice when a light design is required. Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor.
One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa. Staining maple a light teak color can be done and done well but you need to practice your finish and staining system and sand with great precision. The result of these options is that the neutral stain floor will have the least stain color showing. It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye. Truth is staining a maple floor gives it a cool depth and unique color variations something that is impossible to duplicate the same in another floor. The raised grain allows us to apply an oil based wood flooring stain in any color with a very high degree of color uniformity throughout. Use a high powered light to investigate your sanding to make certain you do not have sanding marks.
The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain. As you can see the floor still looks pretty.