How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand.
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.
I finished the floors last night so i couldn t walk on them to take pictures until this morning.
Oak hardwood floors wear well and look their best when properly refinished.
Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting.
Unlike some hardwoods oak continues to be relatively abundant and most oak floors are solid wood.
The living room floor is part of the original hardwood floor that s almost 70 years old.
You either hate them or love them.
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.
Distressing also is a way to match antiqued cabinets and furniture.
In recent years distressed floors have seen a resurgence in california and other pockets of the country.
Sanding the floors yourself vs hiring a professional.
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 want to make sure you have the right equipment see.
This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better.
Refinishing sanding staining polyurethane for hardwood oak floors.
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.
Once your final paint coat is dry you can start distressing it with either a wet rag or fine grit sandpaper.
The kitchen floor is only two years old.
My studio is so light and bright and i don t think it would look like that with dark stained floors.
Refinishing them was added to the list of to dos.
One advantage of solid boards over engineered ones is that you can sand and refinish them.
But also this was another patch job.
You can save thousands of dollars by adding this.
You would sand the floors 3 times with finer and finer grits.
See more about these techniques in the wet distressing and dry distressing sections above.
It was a project i was looking forward to tackling.
Try using a combination of these methods and use both a wet cloth and a sanding sponge to create the look you want.