We love them here at abm and were so excited when we pulled back the gross carpet in the habitat house to reveal the house had possibly original wood floors in ok shape.
Distressing my dark red oak floors then sanding them.
When you are whitewashing the floors you sand them in the same exact way you would sand floors for other stain colors.
You either hate them or love them.
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Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting.
How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand.
But also this was another patch job.
Oak hardwood floors wear well and look their best when properly refinished.
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.
My studio is so light and bright and i don t think it would look like that with dark stained floors.
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.
The kitchen floor is only two years old.
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.
You would sand the floors 3 times with finer and finer grits.
This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better.
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.
You would want to make sure you have the right equipment see.
The living room floor is part of the original hardwood floor that s almost 70 years old.
One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that you can sand and refinish them.
Refinishing sanding staining polyurethane for hardwood oak floors.
It was a project i was looking forward to tackling.
Once your final paint coat is dry you can start distressing it with either a wet rag or fine grit sandpaper.
Sanding the floors yourself vs hiring a professional.
See more about these techniques in the wet distressing and dry distressing sections above.
I finished the floors last night so i couldn t walk on them to take pictures until this morning.
Refinishing them was added to the list of to dos.
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.
In recent years distressed floors have seen a resurgence in california and other pockets of the country.