Stain and clear coat your stairs to give them long lasting appeal.
Matching stairs to hardwood floors.
After you ve spent countless months picking out your new hardwood floor it s time to start thinking about the hardwood stairs that you are going to install after all the wood floors are the foundation for the overall design.
This is the most obvious solution to coordinating your flooring and staircase.
Over time hardwood floors are likely to receive their fair share of nicks and scratches.
This is very important because stains can look very different on different types of wood.
Our red oak stains are designed to match the most popular stain colors used on hardwood flooring.
If you want a seamless end result choose the same species of lumber and use the same stain for the flooring and stair parts.
Generally if you have oak hardwood flooring provided that you match the existing species and grade you can generally refinish the wood to match the stain on the existing portion.
For example in our new house we are using sea smoke from adm flooring.
Offered with all of our unfinished and prefinished natural or stained hardwoods are matching stair treads and risers.
Similar to paint pens stain pens need to be shaken before use.
Use a foam brush to apply the stain and wipe with a lint free cloth.
Our treads are custom matched and run at the same time as your flooring so there s no concern of not getting the same color and or texture.
Choose the right species of wood the first step to matching stair treads to prefinished flooring is using the same species of wood.
These isolated mishaps can be fixed with the simple use of stain pens.
Finding a right match for your hardwood flooring is as easy as ordering a red oak sample pack which includes our six eloquent stain colors as well as a natural prefinished clear and unfinished sample.
This assumes you hire a professional hardwood sanding company.