Our Kitchen Remodel
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Thanks again everyone!
bogue - The original floor was maple, kind of a light stain that's pretty typical for condos and apartments in Chicago. We didn't want to change out the whole floor, but knew we wanted something closer to gray. We actually saw some wooden-simulating tile floor that was gray and was INCREDIBLE. It was also $10+ a square foot. No thanks.
So our contractor worked with some wood guys to make samples of maple hardwood, with both a bleached and unbleached section. With the stain we were hoping for, we wanted to see how gray we could actually get. The bleaching would have helped that along.
Here's a sample:
The upper portion is not bleached. Lower portion is bleached but looks crappy in the lighting. I think both only have one coat of stain.
In the end, I think it came down to not bleaching it because that would have killed any personality to the wood grain. I think we have two coats of stain and a single coat of polyurethane.
We've been in a lot of places and not seen something of this color, which is nice. It's totally different in lights vs. daylight as well.
- IMO, darkening it was the way to go. Either walls lighter than flooring or vice versum.********
- Thanks so much! I just had my wife look at this post... i think we might be in agreement on this.bogue
- IMO, darkening it was the way to go. Either walls lighter than flooring or vice versum.