After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.
Maple flooring stain colors.
As you can see the floor still looks pretty.
Truth is staining a maple floor gives it a cool depth and unique color variations something that is impossible to duplicate the same in another floor.
Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly.
The result of these options is that the neutral stain floor will have the least stain color showing.
We then dyed the floor with a fruitwood color to change the base color of the wood from white tan to more of a cherry or red birch color.
Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye.
One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa.
The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.
It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.
Because of its clean light appearance that is easy to decorate around maple has become the flooring of choice when a light design is required.
Maple like several others species such as walnut american cherry pine and douglas fir do not take stain as evenly as species such as red oak and white oak blotchy color can result from other factors as well such as inconsistent sanding procedures water popping or stain application.
Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s.
Use a high powered light to investigate your sanding to make certain you do not have sanding marks.