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Special Walnut

Powell Flooring sands and finishes wood floors in West Milford, New Jersey. Pick a color and it is laid as a floor below, at the plank width you choose. Change the light, or put two side by side, the way we do it on your own boards.

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Special Walnut in any room.

Every room here lays the stain on red oak at 2¼ inch, whatever width you pick above. Change the room, the light or the stain.

Living room facing the lake, as it was made, before a floor is chosen

Stain · on red oak · 2.25 in

Special Walnut

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Stained on your own floor when we sand and finish it.

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The ones people actually ask for.

Special Walnut more than any other. And the most common thing we do is no stain at all: sanded, sealed, finished, left the color the wood already is. We will not pretend a screen can show you that honestly, so ask, and we will put it on your own floor beside whatever else you are considering.

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Grouped by where they land, not alphabetically, because nobody chooses a floor alphabetically. Tap one to lay it. Tap the heart to keep it.

Light and natural

Warm and golden

Classic brown

Red and mahogany

Dark and dramatic

Gray and weathered

White and washed

Worth saying plainly

A screen is not a floor.

No two screens are calibrated the same, and none of them are the light in your living room at four in the afternoon in November. These photographs are a good guide and they are not a guarantee. When you are close to deciding, we sand a small area of your actual floor and put several stains on it, and you stand over it in your own light. That part is free, and it is the only way anyone should choose a floor color.

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DuraSeal is our default

DuraSeal and Minwax are the same house, both Sherwin-Williams, and most colors cross between the two lines. Minwax is the consumer grade version and a few colors live only there. If you found a color on a Minwax chip, we can almost always match it in DuraSeal.

Red oak, which matters

Every board here is red oak. The same stain on white oak reads cooler and grayer, on maple it goes blotchy without a conditioner, and on pine it barely behaves at all.

Oil stain, waterborne finish

The stain is oil based. The finish over it is usually waterborne, because it dries fast and you are back on your floor sooner. We use an oil finish where the look or the wood calls for it, or where you ask: it takes longer and means more trips to the house, and we charge the same either way.

Width is a decision, not a preference

Boards 5 inches and wider are often made as engineered rather than solid, for the directional stability a wide solid board does not have. Engineered also comes in thicknesses other than the traditional three quarter inch, which can be an advantage, or a problem where a nosing or an adjoining floor already sits at a set height. That is worked out on site.

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