For example, if you have a rustic farmhouse vibe in your home, going with matte vs satin finish hardwood floors might pull the look together more. Others who have a more formal feeling in their furniture might go with a satin vs semi-gloss floor finish. Browse our collection of gloss hardwood floors or wood floor gloss finish online or contact us today with any questions you may have.
Continue reading. Log in. October 20, Posted by Kimberly Fairfax. MATTE If you want a natural look on your hardwood floors, a matte sheen finish is the wood floor gloss finish for you. Newer Bona Mop Vs. Back to list. September 17, Posted by Kimberly Fairfax. Knowledge is power and the more you know, the better your choice will be for the type of flooring you have installed.
There are four areas to hone in on when going about the process online or in the store: sheen, texture, Nowadays, more than half of consumer purchases are bought online. He asked what type of finish we wanted. DH wanted to know what the options were. He told us what they were and suggested semi-gloss. After reading all the comments here, we've decided on satin.
Much thanks to those who shared their experiences! I'm very late to this party, but so glad that I found it. I've decided that satin is the way to go. I haven't been able to find a stain that I like. But, my alternative was to water down the taupe paint that's on the walls and do a water base stain.
I can't imagine that there would be any problems with it. Ours is VERY matte. It is a commercial grade finish that we got 3 years ago and also recently used for the new addition we are finishing.
We love it so much. Also it is very hard to scratch. We had minwax semi-gloss in our last house and when the sun came in there were scratches galore! This one has none after 3 years- except for one we got when not moving furniture carefully enough. Ours is made by Vermeister. I highly recommend it!
People always comment on it as well when coming through the house. Thx for your feedback. I've got real wood that is unusual to me. An old barracks that the RR bought and turned it into their meeting hall for Conductors and the Union. Eventually, they sold it and now, I've got it. The floor is in its original condition and needs work. So, I'll have it sanded and stain it myself with a water wash of taupe paint.
That way it will match the taupe on the walls to some extent. But, matte was my selection. Glad to see that I made the right choice.
I am not so much a fan of the plastic of of some high sheen. It looks great when frist applied but I think it is a pain to keep up and it never looks the same after application. We did Satin at our last place and it was fine. This time we went with Extra Matte, which is almost no sheen at all and looks as though the floors do not have any poly on it. I love it. Very forgiving and it looks the same as when it was first applied, because the extra matte does not change the appearance of the wood floors as much.
I am bumping this thread to the top because we're getting our whole house's floors refinished and I have to choose sheen level too. Is semi-gloss really more slippery? We have a flight of stairs that are hardwood but we could add a runner. There's no question as to adding stair runners. This is something you just need to sit and think about.
It adds a softer element which opposes the hard wood very nicely. A way of adding some color to an area that could nicely reflect downstairs pallette and tied them to your upstairs choice of colors. I would LOVE to see pics of your staircase. However, I'm sure you'll make a good selection.
But, if you want some additional feedback, email your pics direcrtly to me I love the look of high gloss floors, but just not in my house. It reads formal to me. They also show everything. I wanted a finish that matched the feel of our house and matched our style of living. When he did the samples, I picked the matte finish.
For my particular floors, the matte looked richer. Get samples done on the floor. Floor men expect you to ask for that. And talk to your floor men at length. They can help guide you, too. I sure wish I read this thread before I did my floors! The 4th coat of my super-glossy natural oak floors just went on last night. We replaced our marble kitchen floor with new oak hardwoods to match the rest of the house and refinished all.
As brand new floors, they are utterly gorgeous and have a lacquer finish. The coatings gave the floors a rich, honey oak color. But the furniture hasn't even been moved back in and I'm worried about scratches!
I agree with one of the previous posters that the high gloss has a more formal look which I happen to like in my house but realize it's not for everyone.
We do have cats but they get mani-pedis every 6 weeks so I don't expect claw scratches. No kids. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of vacuuming and mopping. Fingers crossed that I'm not disappointed later. Your floors sound beautiful. Is the amount of gloss dependent on whether you have a water or oil-based finish? Most of my floors have an oil-based finish that has mellowed to a nice amber color that I really like. My kitchen has kind of a flat water-based finish that doesn't protect the floors very well, and doesn't look very nice.
Aside from this, how do most people go about getting their floors redone if all of your house is hardwood floors? It seems to me that we'd need to put all of our furniture in pods, then move out for several days while the work was being done. We just put new hardwoods in our kitchen and had to refinish the hardwoods in the entire rest of the first floor and stairs so all would match.
Half of the furniture was piled into one room and the rest was piled onto the patio. They did all but the one room, then moved the furniture to one of the finished rooms and refinished that one last room. We didn't move out because of our cats but probably should have. The dust from the sanding is horrendous.
We were able to access the upstairs rooms via an outside staircase to an upstairs door while the floors were being done. My sister recently had her floors refinished and they moved into a hotel with the dog for 4 days. If you can move out for a few days, spare yourself the agony. Satin finish is a much better looking finish and it is frankly in better taste. I can't help thinking that a preference for glossy finishes is immature.
I can't stand the look of any gloss on the floor, it's horrid, causes glare and reflections and flat out ugly. A satin or matte finish shows the dull beauty of the wood and allows the wood to "glow". We went with the lowest gloss possible. It's nearly matte, but not quite as matte as the UV oil we were originally looking at. We went away from the UV oil due to the need for re-application every 10 years or so, and the fact that it would hold dirt better. We felt the very very subtle sheen was worth the maintenance difference.
We have a lot of sunlight coming in our house, and while the semi-gloss is nice, the dirt show would not have been. Dagtag may you please post pictures? I am reading so many reviews that advice no to go semigloss and I am considering not doing it. Yours is one of the few reviews that advice it and I really like the glossy finish. I had my bedroom done with a glossy finish factory finish and always looks clean and I love it but is already glossy from the factory. I love my "gym floor" finish on my hardwood floors.
I do have a dark red master bedroom, and had a deep blue bedroom before I painted it yellow when my daughter was born - maybe that is what you were thinking of? I do love colors! Thank you! Oh, and the dining room and kitchen color is Barn, by Sherwin Williams. It was a Martha Stewart color when she was affiliated with them. I'm not sure if SW carries the color anymore, but it's definitely worth a try. I LOVE that color It's perfect. I have a toddler who thinks it's hilarious to dribble milk out of his mouth for fun, so yeah, it's messy here.
Gloss type is a personal taste? In general the higher the gloss finish the more it will show scratches, smudges, dust bunnies - they are more slippery too. Rmkitchen were your previous floors oak or something else?
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Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Related Discussions hardwood floor finishes - need info to make a decision Q. Yes we did. We stained the floor a dark walnut. For the finish we did the first coat of finish in satin,.
Then took a look at it and thought it didn't have enough gloss to it so we did the last two coats in a semi gloss. I think we made a good decision. I am glad that we started with the satin coat first and then reviewed it to see if we liked it. I had always assumed that you had to do the same type of finish for all three coats but you don't.
We love the floor! The harsh reality of considering hardwood flooring at all, is the fact that When you suggest that the "hickory" you saw "seemed cheap" Unfortunately the quality of products on the market today correspond in relation to what they cost, in most cases. The benefit of considering a higher quality product, is that the customer is afforded MANY advantages that aren't available in the "junk-in-the-box" variety of flooring even if it's slightly higher in cost- but within reason, of course Hardwood flooring is something that should be a long term proposition I sympathize with folks who have to consider their budget If a low price is the driving force behind the decision-making process I'd like to think that the hickory flooring we've provided doesn't "seem cheap" Above is s pine floor that was originally finished with the basic pumpkin colored finish below when we bought the place.
The pic above is after sanding, using WOCA wood lye in white not softwood lye, just plain lye, one application and then one coat of the master oil white. They have put one more coat on of the master oil since this pic, but I have not yet seen it. The feel is really really smooth, and feels like wood. The Lye really lightened up the tone and also brought out the contrast in the grain, which I like. I really like the look of the finish, looking like wood and not a lot else.
It ended up being just what I wanted. The finishers used the WOCA cleaner beforehand as suggested to prep the wood pre-lye.
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