How To Finish Raw Wood Floor

This is a property that makes hardwood floors more durable than for instance a pine floor but also makes them more difficult to finish.

How to finish raw wood floor.

I have two pine pieces in my bedroom a 2 door cabinet with a 2 drawer base about 60 tall and a matching chest of drawers about 48 tall. Varnish is a popular finish for raw and unfinished wooden furniture. I didn t like the oil based polys that yellow over time. How to install unfinished oak hardwood flooring.

How to finish hardwood floors in one day with minwax uploaded apr 11 2011. If you don t know what to look for then don t be faked out and think the gouges are not there because you can t see them. Very lightly scuff sand the dyed wood with 320 grit paper. Properly applied varnish will also give your bare wood furniture pieces a shiny lustrous finish.

Apply a 50 50 mix of trans tint dark mission brown and medium brown dye to the bare wood and let it dry. Love the look of this finish really has an old raw wood appearance that i would like to try after seeing your results on the little night table. They used bona mega waterbourne hardwood floor finish in satin. This finish is designed specifically for quartersawn white oak.

The varnish will protect the wood from water grease and dirt. I want to keep them as is but want a finish that won t change its current look. Sanding the dye coat ever so lightly really enhances the ray flecks. Instead of the old honey brown color the raw floors have beautiful light grays browns and light cream see pic.

My old oak parquet floors with a poly finish was recently sanded and the colors in the raw natural wood are beautiful. They ll be easier to make out if you re removing a finish. The gouges will be subtle and hard to see in a raw floor one without a finish on it. It is one of the most abundant.

Hardwood floors tend to be resistant to soaking up liquid spills owing to the closeness of the grain. Two years ago when we moved we had all of the floors sanded down to the raw oak and i really loved the color and feel. I asked the wood guy what type of finish he could apply that would best simulate the raw wood color.