floors

Reply to: putting white oak floors in except builder had stairs to bonus room done in red oak. so, did the builder make a mistake? were they supposed to be white oak on the stairs? Sounds like, he should redo them w/the white, or, give you a nice discount. yes, you can stain it dark, but the grain is a bit diff on the red oak. you may not notice as much since it's on the stairs. as for the bonus room, if the stairs lead right to the room and the room is visible w/the other rooms w/the white oak, then I think that would be a good option. There is nothing wrong w/the red oak if you want to stain them a darker shade. Natural red oak looks a bit pink. red oak white oak

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Reply to: Three colors! Argh. I forgot about the nosing strip at the top that the stair maker included as part of the stairs (so it's red vs white). Argh. It's hard to tell if I would have preferred not to stain the treads. So far friends like the pictures of the darker treads.

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Reply to: Well. I told him no stain and he seems confident he can make the red oak close with a little stain. We'll see. I never found a stain I loved for the whole floor. Didn't like the very dark graining with traditional stain and any time we used country white in the mix it was like paint. I don't know if he wasn't wiping the stain off or if it just photographs more translucent than it is in real life. A look like below would have worked ... but it always looked like paint in real life even when I could get a photo to look like this (which is very pretty but not at all accurate). So, no stain. And now I need to find new entry tile since the floors have no gray to them at all to tie with the gray/brown tile. I'm not a huge fan of tan tile, either, so ... Ugh. It's just impossible to visualize what samples will look like on a whole floor. Wish I could have seen whole floors with different options. I'm not very excited about the IKEA look.

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Reply to: The floor company is in palm beach gardens, FL - DC Twin Company. 561.493.8746 I moved the cardboard... Couldn't kick the kids out

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