But some of the most popular recent kitchens on Houzz tell a different story, Whether light and breezy or rich and moody, these wood-rich kitchens might make you rethink painted cabinets, If you favor a little color in your kitchen, look to these spaces that run the gamut from light to dark, See how the most popular kitchen cabinet color effortlessly supports a variety of inviting design features, Tired of white? They are *very* hard, and you will be hard pressed to find a coating that stands up to them), but it would tell you that the floor coating appears to at least be behaving. Please convince me not to settle with maple. They did a great job. However, I failed to visualize the tan natural against the grey bathroom tile. Look forward to more pictures. And the professional you spoke to is correct: the 'hand sanding' is NO WHERE NEAR the same finish/product as the machine with 'final-grit' sanding. Hd and Supra extra matte does not. Did you use one or two coats of the Nordic seal? I acknowledged that there would be an upcharge for the TrafficHD and expected it. :), McCarthy September 15 2020 post question about last sentence, or anyone please+sealant. If you don't like the look of "honey oak" then don't use oil based finishes. These people end up crying themselves to sleep because they HATE their floors (and the massive price tag they just paid for). P.S. I did not pick our stain only from photos, we went to other houses and had samples done. My guess would be red oak since they have gone more orange. Thank you for your input. It has been a nightmare trying to find this look in my area. Finalize your sanding with 150 grit and apply the first coat. Its small enough, you should be able to manage it. Snowy cabinets and walls speak to a certain elegance, while marble counters whisper of luxury, Give your joints a break while you're standing at the stove, with these resilient and beautiful materials for kitchen floors, Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers, Outdoor Lighting & Audio/Visual Specialists, Dream Spaces: 12 Beautiful White Kitchens, 7 Kitchen Flooring Materials to Boost Your Cooking Comfort. The "real" professional-grade products view DuraSeal/Minwax (owned by the same company) to be 'DIY' level products. My vanity with Corian and porcelain sink. I have lived in my new house for 15 months and I love the look of my floors - they are easy to decorate with and give the home a warm but "cool" look at the same time. Just stick with Bona Traffic HD in a satin and you will be fine. It is a work of art. I didnt want to pull up the protective paper but you can see the floor a little better in this photo. Its a shame since it could be helpful for others. Is This the Year Blue and Green Kitchen Cabinets Edge Out White? (The chocolate would have been fabulous next to it.) It was not supportive or helpful. We went with that because the sample board looked exactly like the bare sanded wood, which is what we wanted. Floors are already sitting in the new house acclimating and I know that I am not cut out for the oil finish.). 1 coat per day, buffing every coat for extra smoothness. I lost confidence in my floor guy - I think he wasn't wiping the stain off but letting it dry on resulting in washed paint look. Mega One is a clear non-yellowing finish. We have only had our cabinets for about a month so I cant speak to long term durability yet but they turned out gorgeous. did you have a contract or at least an email stating you wanted white oak? Please help on base, crown, window, door molding size decision. I didnt know what I wanted for finish when I contracted the job and their quote was for a cheaper finish. Good luck! No scrape, no scratch, no nothing. Use Bona Naturaseal for the look you want. Flooring guys are the best since they are redoing to make me happy. It has come out very well. We have one big space kitchen, then dining area with doors to exterior, then the family room. It won't tell you what caused the scratching (glass particles in sand is the usual culprit. Houzz utilise des cookies et d'autres technologies de suivi similaires pour personnaliser mon exprience utilisateur, me proposer du contenu pertinent et amliorer ses produits et services. Seems I also read that it may not even cover that much some places. First - The second pic you gave looks really weird. If a few hundred dollars (or even more), meant the difference between loving my finished product and hating it, I felt having samples was well worth the cost. He said mitering the edges is a nightmare (if you dont mitre, there is a white edge because the color doesnt go all the way through - at least the marble design I chose). They both marked, but the oil was harder to see. NaturalSeal adds the LEAST amount of 'colour' (either white or yellowdoesn't matter) of all the sealants in the Bona line up. If, Bona Mega is your budget. Apply and wipe off excess. Make sure your floor guys are real professionals and have experience using Bona. They just don't get any DARKER over time. Once you and your professional shake hands and write a contract that's when they come in and start the job. Or Loba 2K + their stain lineyou get the idea. G&S generally makes great comments and has solid analysis but in this case he assumed something not in evidence and commented based on that. The NaturalSeal will offer the closest to the 'raw look' you are after. Our cabinet maker will be finishing them, not us. It can work with a range of subfloors, including concrete, Looking for something different from an all-white kitchen? I did a lot of research before deciding on what product to use and how many top coats to use. We are wrapping up our new build and the floor stain choice was today. The bleaching added to the cost and another opportunity for something to go wrong. How to keep red oak floors light and natural? I think we found a good match. The lowest level of gloss I suggest to 'clean-shiny' person is semi-gloss. I hope some of this information is helpful. I'm so confusedthere is no flooring in the white oak, just the LVP. Also, try calling high end custom home builders in the area and ask who they use. Emily Henderson has a white metal railing in her split level home that is pretty gorgeous and widely photographed. Thank you for posting a picture! Also did the installer abrade between the seal & finish coats? I did a lot of research and planned to try Bona NaturalSeal, Bona ClassicSeal and Bona NordicSeal on this round of samples. My guess would be red oak since they have gone more orange. What is your installer recommending? They make their final grit-pass and then they will place the colour samples down with a coat of finish. It could be as low as $2/sf. WebWe ended up using one coat of Bona natural sealer and two coats of HD matte on the floors. @J Sk did you use natural sealer or natural stain? I also read you dont want to go too thin. You should be able to try to scrape it (drag it hard across at any angle), dent it (press your nail in), etc, and nothing visible *at all* should happen. Which one did you end up going with? In real life, they look lighter and more uniform in color than shows up on my iPhone. @Mary Elizabeth I think we have narrowed it down to Ciranova's products..after testing theirs, Rubio Monocoat and several Pallman's waxes, plus a number of normal stains. All you have are tge home centers to choose from. Or is Minwax and Duraseal the same thing? @mtpo did you ever post final pictures of your floor? Still a good quality product line, just not the best. William Smith, D.D., was Of course, none of this is more than 3 foot square sampleand not my kitchen floor, but we are hopeful that we have an answer. (BTW - We ran into the issue with getting character grade mixed into our select a bit too, very frustrating!). We are going with Ciranova "smoke" Unico oil--a one coat product--- which is very similar to Rubio's Smoke 5%, but it can be covered with Ciranova's Fortico (supposedly equal to Bona Traffic). These posts priceless. Im struggling with the same issue thanks! I should add that I planned to use Bona Traffic HD finish as well since I read how durable it is and how it goes on clear without yellowing the wood. Can you apply the Bona NaturalSeal and then apply a couple coats of something like the Renner? I still hope to get my dream kitchen. Bona Traffic finishes questions for people that have used it. Not change the raw color much, 2. Hi! In this angle Nordic is on the right and Natural is on the left. These are the LVP samples and my unfinished white oak stair parts. Here are some of my samples. Sorry but that isn't the way things are done in the building industry. The contractor has also suggested one coat of Loba 2K Supra on top. We ended up using one coat of Bona natural sealer and two coats of HD matte on the floors. BTW -/ we learned that the color of the wood is different and takes the sealer or stain differently depending on where it is from. The Bona Traffic HD is three steps higher than Mega. Two things to do: First, drag your fingernail across it, see what happens. Yeah, thats what I am realizing. If so, they are normal surface marking, nothing to worry about. We will use 3 coats of Bona Traffic HD on top of the sealer. @Jonathan Margareten- I read through my old post, and am not sure if thats what we ended up doing. This is Bona Natural Seal and Bona Nordic Seal on sanded white oak. @Lisa Pearen it would help with identification if you post photos. DH wants to just go with light maple cabinets and I am tempted. @CEM TOSA It took me forever to decide on countertops. If not, you can at least trivially test the floor: First. We even "fumed" a few boards in a fuming tent, and they just didn't look as good as the waxes/oils. It looks like the grain is *very* deep on the board to the left. For those asking to see Intense Seal on white oak. Some of us dont have either the budget or access to a multitude of cabinet makers so trying to work with them on getting the desired finish. They do their own fuming there I found it interesting to learn about that too. Seems quite excessive but want to make sure I understand before I bring this issue up. Press it very hard into the coating, and rip it up. carlyhow many coats of HD did they apply? All the questions and answers have been helpful to me when I have come looking, so I wanted to post photos from today that will possibly help others choose. I looked at the bona product and it states it contains a small amount of white pigment? So it looks like I must know what product I am likely to use before I can even find a pro.So I am experimenting on my own, trying to narrow down the options. They're supposed to start the finish tomorrow morning and it is Bona MEGA clear. San and finish guys come in next. Quartzite is a metamorphic stone.. Sandstone converts to Quartzite from extreme heat and pressure. They are not the same color as my white oak, but shes happy with them. For someone to get this done 'properly' takes training. If it does nothing: Take a piece of masking tape (not painters tape). It seems much darker than the close up picture with the paper removed Just wondering which is closer to what you see in person? WebMy new white oak floors have 1 coat of Bona Natural Seal and 2 coats of Bona Traffic HD satin. If you go natural, then ask yourself ONE question: "Do I like 'honey oak'?" If you answered NOOOOOOOO! He is a small shop and me and one other of his clients are the first to ask him for a "raw look" rift sawn white oak door. If you think of the paint color of your cabinets.pass it on please. I love the natural, light color of the hardwood. Can a bathroom door swing out instead of in? It still should not come off. I do have a lot of experience with these stones because I own a Granite, Quartz and Quartzite company. Just seemed so right. The fabricator was really nice and pulled whole Quartz slabs from his warehouse into the parking lot for me to see. Every client after that training will pay extra for his/her expertise. Forget prefinished. Maybe I will just buy new bathrobes for me and DH instead. Please continue to post pictures of your kitchen. I have found some great inspirational pictures. White oak seems to be kind of tricky. Je peux rejeter les cookies non essentiels en cliquant sur Grer mes prfrences . I purchased white oak high grade for our railings and black iron - our floors are Provenza At Ease and my railings match GREAT now, but need to seal them - what do you recommend? @Renee Czeryba, my advice: when you test put sealer and finish on top to see how it is really going to look. (The Classic has less of a haze.) Prevent the tannin pull so common with white oak. And it is taking me some time to get used to a matte floor. I'd love to know what finishes you ended up selecting as well. Will Bona Mega keep the wood color natural and avoid yellowing over time? I read ClassicSeal is a cheaper sealer in the Bona lineup? . P.P.S. Titan and Fortico can go on top of the waxes and reactives. I checked Durasupreme and they have white oak but not in the shade we like. Houzz Pro: One simple solution for contractors and design pros. My contractor recommended leaving it natural and using a Bona Mega finish which was supposed to dry clear. According to WFB's 2020 State of the Industry Contractor Survey Report, in 2019 red oak made up 48% of installed species and white oak made up 32% Apply the second coat. It's hard to tell how deep those scratches are. WebBona sealer to avoid uneven tannin pull due to using a water based poly, (especially on white oak), no stain, then Bona Traffic HD. Working Bona Traffic is 10x harder than off the shelf stuff. I didn't choose the Nordic because I thought the white pigment made it look unnatural. I know this is a flooring product but the color was almost perfect. Please contact us if we can be of further help. Different painters proposing different solutions to calcimine ceiling. I realize your flooring was "select" not #2 and that makes a difference. They can use a big machine with a screening pad to get up most of that gunk. Then the next day a coat of finish. Our hardwood installer and contractor use DuraSeal products often and Bona Mega. Heres a photo of our family room. The solid white D e k t o n didnt clean up as well as Neolithic or Corian. The webpages say that Classic "highlights the natural color of the wood" while Natural is "designed to retain the appearance of unfinished wood" but having seen the raw, sanded wood which was remarkably gray, I don't know how the latter is possible. I could also put hot pots on the stainless. How 'cheap' do you want to go with something that important? A quick scan of my question and then a quick scan of your answer simply lead G & S to believe all 3 coats were put down same day.which happens more than you really want to know. Or Bona Traffic + their stain line. I like natural white oak with your concept. if anyone else has found a reasonable solution, could you pls share what you did and a few pix? Those are STUNNING! Brazilian Floors did the installation and finishing. Getting gloomy from cool gray? Hard to believe contractors would use your countertops as work bench! They were great to work with. You can use Poloplaz Pearl sealer with Endure or Pallmann's Pall-x white seal and Pall-x Pure. Your comment was devised to make me feel small and make worry about my floors when they are already finished. Can two finish coats be done in a day or should there be a day between all 3 coats? There is no haze and the floors look very pretty, natural in color with a light sheen. My cabinets are a true white (forgot name of paint) and all of the Dekton with a white background was too gray. The real way this is tested is actually even meaner to the floor - normally you take a box cutter, cross-hatch the floor (IE cut it in a grid pattern), and then put the tape on it and rip it up. Another thread I found talks about Rubio mono coat. The wood Is white oak from Norway (from Cochrans in Virginia). white/grey countertops with light wood floor & stainless appliances. Finally, I coated half of my sample with their Fortico Satin and I could not see the poly at all. 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If you said you wanted the look of 'raw wood' then matte is what they would have brought. If that's OK to do (ie I remember hearing it's a problem when you apply more layers like poly but I'm not sure) it might work for you. It didnt seem to show the variations in the wood, light to dark, etc, grain, etc. I talked to the contractor and told him that I had to figure out a different finish. Indem Sie auf Annehmen klicken, stimmen Sie dem zu. You only need an inch. We just installed 5 white oak throughout our home. Okay we have decided to go with Bona Traffic HD in extra matte! @mtpo We are also considering the Bona nordic seal on white oak. We tried a few Duraseal stains on samples and none of them were right. You should look it up. Here are some of my samples. Think NCAA and NBA courts. Cant wait to see the reveal, @mtpo - Floors are looking fabulous! Is that really that difficult? Due to it's ingredients, It is mainly used for custom color mixes with dyes and Bona's sport paint line for insane color schemes. In the finishing business, 'special' requires a bigger price tag. If you want a bit of "yellow depth" to the floor, then work with an oil modified. ?-- and liked playing around with it. They look closer to the raw wood tone. Our contractor informed me that it is significantly more expensive, $2500 more expensive. I guess it could help but honestly unless someone has your exact home with your ecxat light it is still just a guess . My kitchen is the opposite of yours with white cabinets and gray countertops and I like the way my natural white oak floors warm it up. @kasmit00 Did you ever find the recipe for your post from last year with the beautiful soft "brown" floors? Also I highly suggest getting big samples done with all the coatings. WebWhite Oak Kitchen Cabinets - Bona NaturalSeal? We planned to wait 6 days to move in and will use felts and place furniture down gently. I DEFINITELY reccomend reading reviews for fabricators before choosing who you'll use . WebHealthsmart: 640-8174-1900HS, Healthsmart - 640-8174-1900HS - HealthSmart Steel Shoe Horn 24", White, HealthSmart Steel Shoe Horn 24" L, White, Epoxy-coated Steel @mtpo your floors are SO beautiful, do you know where they were ordered from and cost per sq ft? When it came to a finish, I didn't want any red or yellow coloration. Sigh. That doesn't sound like what you are after. There are some lap lines on the floors from the sealer. skip to main content Sale ON SALE - UP TO 75% OFF Bathroom Vanities Chandeliers Bar Stools Pendant Lights Rugs Living Room Chairs Dining Room Furniture Wall Lighting Coffee Tables Side & End Tables Home Office Furniture Sofas Bedroom Furniture Lamps Mirrors FURNITURE True Quartzite is higher on the mohl's scale of hardness then granite. @tkgriff Thanks for sharing the photos. @mtpo sorry to bring this thread back. Hi thanks in advance for your help We are having white oak installed and finished on site. Your floor looks amazing. Over the years, theres been a lot of things Ive cut costs on, but I feel it doesnt pay to skimp on a major feature of my new house that should last for a very long time. The matte helps scratches blend. It offers a bigger margin of profit. 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I have some anxiety he didn't apply the poly in the correct thickness. The info is helpful and Im discerning enough to sort out immature comments. Bona Traffic HD is 10 times EASIER to find (but a snick harder to work with). They have little to no chemical resistance. I like it a lot no visible seam at the back of the countertop). new and it will be white oak common # 1. WebAn icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. I thought I was going with Pallman's white, because it was gorgeous on the 15"X8" sample but on the larger sample with a new bundle of wood it pulled way too pink, even on white oak.