Maple Flooring Stain Colors

Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly.

Maple flooring stain colors.

It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it. 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. This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye. 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.

Staining maple a light teak color can be done and done well but you need to practice your finish and staining system and sand with great precision. One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa. Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor. It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.

The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain. Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s. After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor. 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.

As you can see the floor still looks pretty. 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.