After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.
Maple flooring stain colors.
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.
It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.
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.
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.
Use a high powered light to investigate your sanding to make certain you do not have sanding marks.
As you can see the floor still looks pretty.
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.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye.
One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa.
The result of these options is that the neutral stain floor will have the least stain color showing.
It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it.
Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s.
The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.
Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor.