I am planning to change a room that has laminate flooring to a room that has 3/4" hardwood flooring. The rest of the adjacent rooms and hallways all have hardwood flooring 3/4".
Initially I planned to use prefinished hardwood but after contacting minwax, I decided against it as prefinished hardwood cannot have any polyurethane applied to it easily and is difficult to sand. To get a closer match, I change my plan…
My plan is now to purchase unfinished wood flooring and then finish it myself in this room. The hardest first step is determining if I have red oak or white oak flooring. I think I have red oak as this was popular in the Long Island area long ago, but it's really hard to tell.
The next issue, is how to actually finish the wood to get this color match.
I planned to put the floor down and then finish with this polyurethane product for floors which has an amber tone, but I'm not sure if this produce a close enough orange-y effect.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Best Answer
It's impossible to say for sure from your picture since it is already stained. But generally speaking the approach to this is trial and error with scrap pieces. You'll want to make sure the piece of totally dry before comparing the colour and it can look quite a bit different when wet.
It's unlikely you will get an exact match even using the exact same product since wear and tear and UV take their toll on floors. The only way to get an exact match across both floors is to refinish the old and new with the same product.