getting that raw natural white oak look

Want that raw natural white oak look for your hardwood floors? Me too! If you want this look, it’s best to start out with, well, white oak of course, but we have had some luck hiding as much pink as we can in red oak by creating a custom stain mix and then applying a water-based poly (more on that here ). That’s one of the tricks. You cannot create that raw, natural white oak look by using oil based poly. It just won’t work. More on the differences in oil based and water based poly here . Here is a little East Nashville bungalow where we installed 3 1/4” white oak #2 and finished with water based poly.