After the bleach dried our contractor applied a duraseal country white stain to the old floors leaving the new floors without the white stain.
Lime washed wooden floor before and after.
Bleached or lime washed wood flooring is arguably the most beautiful understated flooring choice available.
Here at mint we love liming floors.
When a lime wash contained.
Lime wash is a time tested treatment for wood and masonry that complements many architectural styles.
The most common wood washes are of the white variety but there is plenty more options such as cocoa and hermitage as well as having mint customize your own colour.
Or you could mix pigment into the lime wax for even more distinctive effects.
Lime washing or white washing is a technique that has been used for many years initially to protect wood and more recently to make wood look weathered and bleached.
A really effective way of breathing new life into an old wood floor lime or white washing creates a nice light coloured grain in wood.
The added brightness they give a home their versatility and ability to complement nearly every interior style.
While such a glamorous look they don t take over a room.
When lime washing for the first time the floor will have to be sanded back to the bare wood as the lime coating will not adhere to an existing finishing of wax or varnish.
This process gave us the best matching.
In the days before furniture finishes were developed a common way to preserve wood was to wash it with a mixture of lime and water.
You can still see a hint of redness.
We ended up bleaching the floors three times to get the look we wanted.
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If you attempt to apply lime wash to a floor which has an existing finish the lime solution will simply lie on top of the wood and will not be absorbed into the boards.
Bear in mind that as well as being used on furniture this effect can be used on wood flooring too.
The floors after two rounds of wood bleach.
Unfortunately true lime wash is temporary and unsuitable for most floors.
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