The flooring in our main bedroom suite are completed, and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome! Our flooring are crimson oak (this a part of the home has new crimson oak flooring), and I completed them with Bona Pure Seal and Bona Visitors HD in an additional matte end. After sanding the flooring beginning with 36-grit, after which shifting to 60-grit, 80-grit, and ending with 100-grit, I did one coat of Bona Pure Seal (which I bought right here — affiliate hyperlink). Then I did two coats of Bona Visitors HD within the further matte end (which I bought right here — affiliate hyperlink). Then I sanded that end in a short time with 220-grit sandpaper on my 5-inch sander (after studying the arduous means that I’m not robust sufficient to make use of a ground buffer), and completed with a ultimate coat of Bona Visitors HD. I utilized all of sealer and end coats utilizing a 14-inch curler and 14-inch Wooster microfiber curler cowl that I bought at Dwelling Depot.
I’m going to share a ton of images of the completed ground at this time as a result of after I was attempting to determine which Bona sealer to make use of on my crimson oak hardwood flooring, all I needed was to search out photos. I needed hundreds and a great deal of photos, however these are arduous to search out. If I discovered photos, there would solely be about one or two photos of every room, and it was arduous to inform what I used to be based mostly on the lighting. I used to be capable of finding fairly just a few movies, however they had been both 15 second walk-through movies of completed flooring, or longer movies exhibiting all the course of from begin to end with solely a minute or much less exhibiting a walkthrough of a home with the completed ground. I simply needed photos, and I needed to see the identical room from completely different angles, and I needed lots of them. So at this time, I’m going to point out you these completed flooring from nearly each angle I can, and I’m going to supply some data that I hope will likely be useful for anybody who occurs upon this put up who’s searching for data on Bona finishes for hardwood flooring.
So here’s what our newly completed crimson oak hardwood flooring appear like with the Bona Pure Seal and Bona Visitors HD within the further matte end. I’ll begin with the lobby of the bed room suite.
The lobby solely has one ceiling gentle that has two bulbs in it. Each bulbs are 5000K (daylight) LED bulbs. As you possibly can see, the lobby has no home windows, so there’s no direct pure gentle on this room. Remember that should you use hotter lighting (which most individuals do), the colour of the ground will look hotter than it does beneath 5000K LED lighting. Additionally, I didn’t use Bona Crimson Out on my crimson oak flooring.
Subsequent, I’ll transfer on to the bed room. I can’t wait to do away with these striped partitions, however one venture at a time. I’ll begin engaged on this room as quickly as I’m completed with the walk-in closet. Anyway, this room is the one which has probably the most pure gentle since there are three home windows. I took these photos early this morning (round 7:00am, solely half-hour after dawn), so it wasn’t through the brightest a part of the day. This room has 4 recessed LED lights which are set to 5000K (daylight). So once more, should you use hotter lighting, the ground shade will seem hotter. Right here you possibly can see the gorgeous low sheen of the Bona Visitors HD within the further matte end.
And eventually, right here is the walk-in closet. This room has some pure gentle, however since there’s just one window, and these photos had been taken early this morning, there’s not an entire lot of pure gentle coming in by the window. The room has seven LED recessed lights on the 5000K (daylight) setting, plus a middle chandelier with three 5000K (daylight) LED chandelier bulbs.
So should you’re attempting to determine which Bona product to make use of, particularly on crimson oak hardwood flooring, I actually hope that is useful! I do discover it attention-grabbing that the colour is barely completely different from image to image, however I feel that’s simply because my cellphone (I take all of my photos utilizing my iPhone 15) picks up lighting otherwise at completely different angles. Nevertheless it’s really very correct to how I see the flooring in individual. Relying on the angle, the lighting, and the time of day, the flooring might seem brighter, or they could seem barely darker and hotter.
However the general look of the ground with the Bona Pure Seal and the Bona Visitors HD goes to be barely darker and hotter than the naked, freshly sanded crimson oak flooring. These photos had been taken at completely different instances of the day, so you must take that into consideration. However right here’s an image of the freshly sanded ground on the left, sanded to 100-grit, and the completed ground with the Bona Pure Seal and Visitors HD on the best. The distinction may be very slight, however I do suppose that slight contact of heat from the finishes makes a really large distinction.
In the event you want the looks of the ground on the left, you’ll in all probability need to keep on with Bona Nordic Seal, which is the lightest shade obtainable. However should you just like the pure crimson oak look however need simply the slightest contact of heat, the Bona Pure Seal is the best selection. I’m completely thrilled with my selection, and I couldn’t be happier with my flooring now!
And only for enjoyable, right here’s a fast comparability of what I had beforehand (crimson oak stained with a combination of darkish walnut and particular walnut) and the brand new lighter, brighter crimson oak flooring.
What a tremendous distinction!! I like the lighter flooring a lot extra! And now the countdown begins. The flooring require three days to completely treatment, after which…I can lastly transfer my washer and dryer into the closet!! I’ve been ready for that second for a lot too lengthy, and I’m extra excited than a child ready for Christmas morning to reach.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
