Walnut Stained Maple Flooring

Thick x 3 1 4 in.

Walnut stained maple flooring.

Woods like cherry pine and birch can become blotchy and unattractive when stained unless you use a sealer before staining. Staining maple is generally not recommended by finish manufacturers since the dense grain does not allow the penetration of most pigments. Not being satisfied with this answer myself i began experimenting with alternate methods of creating stained maple floors. You can read what the wood flooring association has to say about maple flooring here.

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. Some are more durable than others. Wide x random length solid hardwood flooring 20 sq. Oak maple and hickory are hardest and better at resisting dents and scratches.

These beauties are our new davis table left and a corbett table right which is about four years old. The results have been beautiful. We had inconsistent flooring in all the downstairs rooms so we had the carpets ripped up had the cherry stained maple kitchen floor sanded down to natural had unfinished maple installed in the rest of the downstairs rooms and then had all of it stained dark walnut. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.

Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects. We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains. Some types of wood like pine cherry birch and maple are notoriously difficult to stain. For the best results test the possible finishes on scrap pieces before you start.

Case 7 79. Wood species refers to the type of hardwood used to make either solid or engineered hardwood flooring. With bruce you ll find oak hickory maple birch cherry and walnut. Over the past couple of years we have experimented re done mistakes and have been able to produce some very nice stained maple floors that have cherry walnut or dark mahogany colors.

New walnut has a consistent dark brown color but as it gets older it does two things. Simply put maple is not a hardwood flooring wood that should be stained. They already look great in their natural colors. Minwax design series washes wood effects and waxes offer new options for bare wood and wood that s already stained.