Is It Possible To Stain Your Hardwood Darker

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Is it possible to stain your hardwood darker.

Restaining your dresser coffee table or other piece of wood furniture is a good way to give it a second life and bring it into harmony with your changing decor. We built our house and going with cherry cabinets trim baseboards doors. I would like to stain it darker or even paint it darker if this is possible. Well let me show you how to easily darken stain without stripping the table or any other piece of stain wood this includes hardwood flooring as well.

The color of the original stain and the tinted polyurethane combine creating a darker slightly different shade. Stain will not penetrate into the bevels leaving you with literally stripes on your floor. Lightly hand sand using a light grit sanding block lightly hand sand the entire surface of the wood piece that you would like to darken. To properly stain any floor the sanding needs to be done to 100 of the surface including the beveled edges.

The floor will not get darker if you flood it with an excess of stain or apply a second coat. However you want to make sure you invest in a stain that matches your wood and also lasts as long as possible. At the moment i am indecisive on whether or not to stain our cherry floors. The amount of stain that a floor can absorb is finite.

Using excess amounts or applying multiple coats of stain can cause the stain to bleed back where it wicks back up to the surface of the board as solvent begins to evaporate. This ensures your hardwood is smooth and that it properly accepts the stain and or polyurethane for a better and longer lasting look. And floors in three large rooms. First you sand the floors with sanding machine.

We typically do 3 sandings each with finer grits the grits vary based on the type of wood and age. Purchasing a home with light colored wood laminate flooring. This ensures your hardwood is smooth and that it properly accepts the stain and or polyurethane for a better and longer lasting look. For example neutralize a light warm maple with a darker oak to neutralize orange.

It is possible to stain cherry darker. If you want to restain to a lighter color you will have to strip the old finish and sand the wood. I decided on natural doors trim and baseboard but torn on the floors stain or natural. Right now being pre finished flooring the bevels have the same factory finish on them that the tops the face of the boards do.