White oak refinished floors

Sharing the story of refinishing my upstairs hardwood floors as well as my process for choosing a hardwood floor stain color.

Transforming your red oak floors with a new stain color is a great way to modernize and update your home. We recently refinished our dark stained hardwood floors to lighter white oak look using Bona Nordic Seal and what a huge improvement!

We’re often asked to perform magic. It seems many homeowners with existing red oak hardwood floor would prefer to go lighter, brighter and achieve a “white oak” look instead of the typical red oak look which tends to read orange. We’ve mixed and experimented and mixed and experimented some more. We’

Back in May I shared a list of all the projects we wanted to have done before moving into our new house. At the top of that list?–replace all the flooring w ...

In case you missed it, I shared all about the reason why we chose to install new flooring, how we landed on White Oak, and, some initial details of the project here. We started the project on a Friday, and the install was complete within just a few days – making it pretty easy to […]

Looking to transform your red oak floors into white oak? Refinishing Oak Floors Lighter can be tricky but not with Bona Nordic Sealer!

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Construction Update It’s finally flooring week! It’s crazy to think that I’ve “only” been doing renovations for 4 weeks because it seems like it’s been MONTHS! I think the fact that I made an offer on my house in February (Valentine’s Day) -> started planning the renovations after getting

Your guide to red oak flooring, including how it compares to white oak, stains that won't look pink, cost and how to keep it turning orange.