It is not supposed to look like oak that s the beauty of it.
Maple flooring stain colors.
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.
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.
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.
Maple flooring has had a major resurgence since white floors lost popularity in the early 1990s.
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.
The result of these options is that the neutral stain floor will have the least stain color showing.
This is the floor as we prepared it for the dye.
After the stain is dry we seal and coat the floor like any other floor.
The former hot spots appear more as interesting burls in the wood grain.
One of my favorite colors to stain is a color called sable black made by glitsa.
Staining maple shows all sanding flaws quickly.
Use a high powered light to investigate your sanding to make certain you do not have sanding marks.