Red Oak Floors With Bona Natural Seal & Bona Traffic HD

The flooring in our master suite suite are completed, and I couldn’t be happier with the end result! Our flooring are purple oak (this a part of the home has new purple 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 purchased here — affiliate hyperlink). Then I did two coats of Bona Visitors HD within the additional matte end (which I purchased here — affiliate hyperlink). Then I sanded that end in a short time with 220-grit sandpaper on my 5-inch sander (after learning the hard way that I’m not strong enough to use a floor buffer), and completed with a last 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 as we speak as a result of once I was attempting to determine which Bona sealer to make use of on my purple oak hardwood flooring, all I needed was to seek out footage. I needed masses and a great deal of footage, however these are exhausting to seek out. If I discovered footage, there would solely be about one or two footage of every room, and it was exhausting to inform what I used to be taking a look at based mostly on the lighting. I used to be capable of finding fairly a number of movies, however they had been both 15 second walk-through movies of completed flooring, or longer movies exhibiting the whole 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 footage, and I needed to see the identical room from totally different angles, and I needed a whole lot of them. So as we speak, I’m going to point out you these completed flooring from nearly each angle I can, and I’m going to offer some data that I hope might be useful for anybody who occurs upon this submit who’s in search of data on Bona finishes for hardwood flooring.

So here’s what our newly completed purple oak hardwood flooring seem like with the Bona Pure Seal and Bona Visitors HD within the additional 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’ll be able to see, the lobby has no home windows, so there’s no direct pure gentle on this room. Needless to say in case you use hotter lighting (which most individuals do), the colour of the ground will look hotter than it does underneath 5000K LED lighting. Additionally, I didn’t use Bona Pink Out on my purple oak flooring.

Red oak hardwood floors with Bona NaturalSeal and Bona Traffic HD in an extra matte finish.

Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD on red oak

Bona NaturaSeal and Bona Traffic HD on red oak hardwood floors

Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD on red oak hardwood floors

Red oak floors with Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD in an extra matte finish

Red oak floor with Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD (extra matte finish)

Bona NaturalSeal on red oak with Bona Traffic HD in extra matte finish

Subsequent, I’ll transfer on to the bed room. I can’t wait to do away with these striped partitions, however one challenge 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 essentially the most pure gentle since there are three home windows. I took these footage 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 might be set to 5000K (daylight). So once more, in case you use hotter lighting, the ground coloration will seem hotter. Right here you’ll be able to see the gorgeous low sheen of the Bona Visitors HD within the additional matte end.

Bona Natural Seal with Bona Traffic HD, red oak hardwood floors

Red oak with Bona NaturalSeal (no Bona Red Out used)

Bona Natural Seal on red oak (no Bona Red Out used)

Bona NaturalSeal and Traffic HD on red oak hardwood floors

Bona Natural Seal on red oak with no Bona Red Out used

Red oak floors with Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD extra matte (no Bona Red Out used)

Red oak floors with Bona Natural Seal and Bona Traffic HD (no Bona Red Out used)

Bona Natural Seal and Traffic HD on red oak (no Red Out used)

And eventually, right here is the walk-in closet. This room has some pure gentle, however since there’s just one window, and these footage had been taken early this morning, there’s not a complete lot of pure gentle coming in by way of 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.

Bona Natural Seal on red oak hardwood floors

Bona Natural Seal and Traffic HD on red oak floors

Bona Natural Seal and Traffic HD on red oak

Bona Natural Seal on red oak with no Red Out used

Bona NaturalSeal on red oak with Traffic HD in an extra matte finish, no Red Out used

So in case you’re attempting to determine which Bona product to make use of, particularly on purple oak hardwood flooring, I actually hope that is useful! I do discover it fascinating that the colour is barely totally different from image to image, however I feel that’s simply because my cellphone (I take all of my footage utilizing my iPhone 15) picks up lighting in another way at totally different angles. However 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 purple oak flooring. These footage had been taken at totally 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 precise. The distinction could be very slight, however I do suppose that slight contact of heat from the finishes makes a really large distinction.

Red oak hardwood floor after sanding to 100-grit finish

In case you want the looks of the ground on the left, you’ll in all probability need to follow Bona Nordic Seal, which is the lightest coloration out there. However in case you just like the pure purple oak look however need simply the slightest contact of heat, the Bona Pure Seal is the precise alternative. I’m completely thrilled with my alternative, 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 (purple oak stained with a combination of darkish walnut and particular walnut) and the brand new lighter, brighter purple oak flooring.

Red oak floor with walnut stain and satin water-based polyurethane finish

Red oak floor stained wtih dark finish and water-based polyurethane

What a tremendous distinction!! I really 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 rework and adorn 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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