Distressing My Dark Red Oak Floors Then Sanding Them

Sanding the floors yourself vs hiring a professional.

Distressing my dark red oak floors then sanding them.

You would want to make sure you have the right equipment see. My studio is so light and bright and i don t think it would look like that with dark stained floors. Refinishing sanding staining polyurethane for hardwood oak floors. Once your final paint coat is dry you can start distressing it with either a wet rag or fine grit sandpaper.

Oak hardwood floors wear well and look their best when properly refinished. As you can see from the photo above right the more porous springwood stains considerably darker than the dense latewood giving the boards a distinct zebra striped look. Both are red oak but the original floor in its raw state had a more red tone to it while the kitchen floor had a more pink orange tone to it. The living room floor is part of the original hardwood floor that s almost 70 years old.

When you are whitewashing the floors you sand them in the same exact way you would sand floors for other stain colors. My floors are done and while whitewashing red oak hardwood floors is a huge job i think it was very well worth the effort and hard work. But also this was another patch job. How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand.

Distressing also is a way to match antiqued cabinets and furniture. One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that you can sand and refinish them. More decorators are specifying distressed floors as a way to make a new floor look like it s 100 years old and to give the floor a rustic casual feel. Red oak and white oak floors absorb stain more uniformly but be aware that there is a difference between the density of earlywood or springwood and latewood of these species.

Try using a combination of these methods and use both a wet cloth and a sanding sponge to create the look you want. You can save thousands of dollars by adding this. The kitchen floor is only two years old. In recent years distressed floors have seen a resurgence in california and other pockets of the country.

I finished the floors last night so i couldn t walk on them to take pictures until this morning. It was a project i was looking forward to tackling. Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting. You either hate them or love them.

This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better. Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood. Refinishing them was added to the list of to dos.