The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.
Maple flooring stain colors.
Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s.
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 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.
As you can see the floor still looks pretty.
The raised grain allows us to apply an oil based wood flooring stain in any color with a very high degree of color uniformity throughout.
It should be noted that dying staining a maple floor is a.
Here is an example of a recent floor we completed on a 3 1 4 second and better grade hard maple floor.
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.
After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.
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.
Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly.
It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it.
One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye.