Walnut Stained Maple Flooring

These beauties are our new davis table left and a corbett table right which is about four years old.

Walnut stained maple flooring.

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. Staining maple is generally not recommended by finish manufacturers since the dense grain does not allow the penetration of most pigments. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.

You can read what the wood flooring association has to say about maple flooring here. With bruce you ll find oak hickory maple birch cherry and walnut. Some are more durable than others. New walnut has a consistent dark brown color but as it gets older it does two things.

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. 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. Wood species refers to the type of hardwood used to make either solid or engineered hardwood flooring. Woods like cherry pine and birch can become blotchy and unattractive when stained unless you use a sealer before staining.

This post is sponsored by minwax. Millstead hand scraped maple chocolate 3 4 in. Simply put maple is not a hardwood flooring wood that should be stained. 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.

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. Thick x 3 1 4 in. For the best results test the possible finishes on scrap pieces before you start. 1 unlike maple and cherry it gets lighter and 2 a rich honey color starts to come through the grain.

Combine the minwax design series with other minwax stains to produce on trend looks finishes and special effects. Oak maple and hickory are hardest and better at resisting dents and scratches. The results have been beautiful. Not being satisfied with this answer myself i began experimenting with alternate methods of creating stained maple floors.