Day 1 before the old carpet came out.
8 inch wide plank White Oak going in
Deciding on the perfect stain held us up about a week
So many choices, really hard to tell from a small square what a big room will look like
This was the winner, Fumed, Smoke
Stage 1 of the staining, after the Fumed Stain went down
Step 2, Smoke Oil being applied which really made the grain of the wood pop
Finished Floor
Our new vintage marble coffee table was the first piece of furniture back in the roomWe recently had new hardwood floors put in to our house, 8 inch, wide plank, gorgeous white oak floors. We had pretty much decided that they would be stained super dark chocolate brown, not black but as close to black as you can get. We tried a bunch of different combinations of the Min Wax stains that were recommended to us and nothing was even close to what we had in our heads. So the search continued, until I discovered a store in Greenwich that sells Carlisle floors, and in the most dreamy colors (stains). But I was disappointed to learn all of the stains are customized and sold with Carlisle's floors, which for us wasn't an option because we had already bought the wood. I was beginning to get completely frustrated when the woman at the store suggested Rubio Monocoat, a stain that provided us with many different options. I was so excited to discover the product we had been searching for actually existed. While still on a mission to get the perfect chocolate brown/black color (which we did achieve) we started to consider going in a completely different direction, gray floors. Which are nearly impossible to find great pictures of online, definitely not the norm. But I loved the idea of having something totally unique. So we ordered another round of samples in which we finally discovered the perfect stain. Despite all of the negative feedback and weird looks we got from friends and family when we told them we were staining our floors gray, we are super excited with the results. What do you think?
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