Aging Oak Floors

Experts say you can refinish traditional hardwood floors up to 10 times so with a bit of care your floors should last and remain beautiful for a lifetime.

Aging oak floors.

Hardwood floors add a beautiful touch to just about any room but there s some debate about the best way to clean them. Hardwood floors that look 100 years old have become popular and you may achieve this look yourself by distressing wood floors. The sapwood is creamy white but the heartwood is a light brown to dark chocolate brown sometimes with a tendency to purple. The wood gains a special lustre over the years and undergoes a medium to high degree of colour change with the dark brown heartwood lightening over time to a more golden brown.

Aging patina stress cracks and some original saw marks combined with nail holes and solid knots give this grade of antique oak flooring a very unique character that is impossible to match with new flooring. Mixture of red and white oak. There are several different mixtures to use for hardwood floors and you ll. In the past craftsmen always hand scraped or hand sanded wood floors but modern sanding and finishing methods were introduced and shiny smoothly finished floors became prominent.

Milled from old barn and house boards. Minwax weathered oak darkens the patina on pine slightly but on cedar it gives a soft gray overall tone with gold in the grain you might have to apply it more than once to achieve the look you want.