Maple Wood Floor Stains

Hard maple floors offer a nice light bright look to a room and are often paired with matching cabinetry when the home is built.

Maple wood floor stains.

This is completely natural but the grain and differences in density are highlighted by the stain. Many consider this a nice contemporary scandinavian look. However after just a few years the maple yellows. Luckily many brands already offer pre stained maple hardwood planks so you don t really need to go down the diy staining route unless you really have a very unique or custom blend color in mind.

I am a licensed c15 hardwood floor guy who usually uses bona drifast stains. All hardwoods and softwoods have some kind of grain pattern and density differences due to its growth. Discovering the secret to successfully staining maple floors. That usually makes them unhappy but the reason is that the grains in both maple and hickory flooring can be very hard in spots and very soft in others.

I am interested in using the water based dye the coating over it with the medium brown stain and then finishing off with bona wood line. Maple is a closed grain wood this means the wood does not like accepting anything into its pores which includes stain. I always water pop. To get the wood to accept stain there is a popular method of water popping the grain water popping is the method of actually putting water evenly on the floor to raise the grain.

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. I have a client that wants me to stain their maple floors medium brown. Having said that diy maple floor staining can be tricky and often best left to the pros.