Darker or lighter stains
Q: ….I wanted really dark floors. Dark walnut. He said I wouldn’t like it and didn’t want to go that dark. I’ve always had light, natural floors, and wanted a complete change this time….
A: I am certainly the last person you would want to pick the colour of your floors. However, I can tell you that while really dark colours require daily vacuuming because they do reveal house dust, a decorator involved in one of my jobs picked a dark colour for a lady along with dark paint. I gasped! He was annoyed. The decorator said not to worry. Dark colours never go out of style. He was right. I was wrong. It looked great. I like light colours, but the darker ones are much richer and elegant to look at. Lighter stains are easier to apply, and perhaps that was the real issue with your contractor. Bottom line. I may give advice, but it is you, the customer who must finally pick the colour and live with your choice. If there was no finish on this stain, you may be able to use 80 grit screens on a polisher and 80 grit abrasives on an orbital sander (for the perimeter of the room) and remove as much of the stain as possible. After that has been accomplished, wet the floor to help open the grain and stain it again, this time with a darker stain. Once the finish has been applied, you have to start over from scratch to change the colour.
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