Go to the resale store and buy some oak cabs or just doors that have stain and a varnish on them to experiment on them.
Carbon gray stain on red oak.
This stain is very thick to apply and you really have to wipe the stain into the wood to allow the grain to still show through.
Carbon gray premium fast dry interior wood stain provides high quality color in 1 coat to enhance the natural beauty of interior wood surfaces.
Which also means the wood grains still show through the stain color.
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Ginger if you have red oak and want to do some form of gray you will either need to bleach the floors first or choose a darker gray.
This classic gray stain creates the perfect weathered look without over saturating with too much gray.
Dark walnut 2716.
Superior wood stain saves time energy and provides a great value.
Every single piece of wood took on a gray hue including the red oak.
If you do a stain you don t need a sealer as the stain is the sealer.
This high performance stain features nano pigments which intensify color clarity and highlight wood grain delivering the perfect shade in just one coat.
Bring out the beauty of natural wood lightning fast with rust oleum varathane fast dry wood stain.
Giving your home a perfect color palette goes beyond paint.
With sherwin williams stain colors you can let the natural wood shine through match grain colors or cover unsightly blemishes.
It barely soaked into the oak at all but looked much darker on the maple.
Pine and birch were both splotchy and inconsistent.
Classic gray tends to be slightly blotchy so make sure to use pre conditioner with this stain color.
Carbon gray by rust oluem varathane.
Mix grey paint and poly 50 50 and paint on cabs.
Varathane weathered gray stain the color of the varathane weathered gray stain varied widely depending on the wood species.
Sunbleached by rust oleum varathane doesn t seem like it would be a grey colored stain but it actually goes on as a very creamy light grey wood stain color.