The kitchen floor is only two years old.
Distressing my dark red oak floors then sanding them.
Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting.
Try using a combination of these methods and use both a wet cloth and a sanding sponge to create the look you want.
In recent years distressed floors have seen a resurgence in california and other pockets of the country.
It was a project i was looking forward to tackling.
Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood.
You either hate them or love them.
Refinishing sanding staining polyurethane for hardwood oak floors.
When you are whitewashing the floors you sand them in the same exact way you would sand floors for other stain colors.
Distressing also is a way to match antiqued cabinets and furniture.
How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand.
Once your final paint coat is dry you can start distressing it with either a wet rag or fine grit sandpaper.
I finished the floors last night so i couldn t walk on them to take pictures until this morning.
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.
One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that you can sand and refinish them.
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.
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.
See more about these techniques in the wet distressing and dry distressing sections above.
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.
But also this was another patch job.
Oak hardwood floors wear well and look their best when properly refinished.
The living room floor is part of the original hardwood floor that s almost 70 years old.
This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better.
Refinishing them was added to the list of to dos.
You can save thousands of dollars by adding this.
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.
Sanding the floors yourself vs hiring a professional.