Provincial often works better in more traditional homes and special walnut often looks a bit more contemporary.
Special walnut floor stain.
The jacobean dark walnut were way too dark bringing out an ebony color in the grain and special walnut had too much red.
Before i sand away past stains and paint drips i decided to test out old masters special walnut and dark walnut.
Provincial is a warm medium toned brown.
It think it looks even better when it s finished with an oil based polyurethane which really enhances the dark walnut color and the grain of the wood.
The wood on my floors is red oak.
Ideal for unfinished wood furniture cabinets.
So provincial it was.
If you are lucky enough to have an exotic rare or special wood floor such as mahogany cherry rosewood walnut aged pine and even maple then we strongly recommend they don t be stained.
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I wanted to avoid orange undertones and this dark walnut stain was perfect.
Chestnut is similar to special walnut but lighter.
I shared this with you in my previous post but here is the color of the floors in the downstairs left compared with the upstairs right.
In the high traffic areas the stain is completely worn away but around the perimeter the stain is a deep orange red.
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The poly finish is satin.
Minwax dark walnut was the first stain color that i fell in love with when i first started woodworking.
If you re worried about your floors turning out too dark then provincial is a really great choice.
Unfortunately the red in the oak gave both a strong orange undertone.
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Minwax wood finish is a penetrating oil based stain that enhances wood grain with rich color in just one coat.
Special walnut is very similar to provincial but a tad browner so usually i recommend that a customer tests both colors on their floor to see which they prefer.
As i mentioned previously i selected dark walnut for the stain color.
Most people stain their floors in an attempt to get them to look like one of these awesome floors.
After deliberating between jacobean dark walnut special walnut and provincial we finally settled on provincial as our favorite color stain.