With the incredible variety of hardwood available for flooring, it may not be necessary for anyone to stain their floors. Of course, there are plenty of good reasons to stain your floors, as well. Let’s go over the reasons for keeping your floors natural, and some reasons for staining them.
Keeping your floor natural
The natural beauty of each type of wood all but eliminates the need to stain your wood floors. Choose a type of wood that has the tones and hues that you love, as well as the physical characteristics that attract you. All wood has unique characteristics both in grain pattern and coloring, so it would be a shame to hide those characteristics with a stain.
Scratches stand out on stained floors
Scratches on stained floors are more noticeable. When you stain your floors you are only staining the very top layer of the wood. Should your floors get scratched below the stain, the lighter natural wood will show through, highlighting every scratch in your floors. Keeping your floors natural will hide dents, scratches, and imperfections for much longer.
When to stain your floors
Of course, you may fall in love with a wood color that is out of your price range. In that case, staining can give you the same exotic and luxurious color that you want, without having to pay the exotic and luxurious prices of the wood. You can find the color you want, and then have someone cutsomize a stain to give you that color.
Customizing the color of your floors
You also have a chance to customize your floors, creating a color that is one-of-a-kind, perfectly matching your home and style. You can use stain to tweak the natural tones of the wood and create something unique. You can also use a stain to make your floors more even in tone or to highlight certain tones and hues already present in the wood.
Consult with a wood flooring expert at T&G Flooring about your hardwood flooring project.