The flooring in our main bedroom suite are completed, and I couldn’t be happier with the consequence! 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 bought right here — affiliate hyperlink). Then I did two coats of Bona Visitors HD within the additional 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 exhausting approach that I’m not sturdy sufficient to make use of a ground buffer), and completed with a remaining 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 House Depot.
I’m going to share a ton of images of the completed ground at this time as a result of after I was making an attempt 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 couple of 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 footage, and I needed to see the identical room from totally different angles, and I needed plenty of them. So at this time, I’m going to indicate you these completed flooring from nearly each angle I can, and I’m going to supply some data that I hope will probably be useful for anybody who occurs upon this publish who’s in search of data on Bona finishes for hardwood flooring.
So here’s what our newly completed purple oak hardwood flooring appear to be 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. Understand that when 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 Crimson Out on my purple 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 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 in the course of the brightest a part of the day. This room has 4 recessed LED lights which are set to 5000K (daylight). So once more, when you use hotter lighting, the ground shade will seem hotter. Right here you’ll be able to see the attractive low sheen of the Bona Visitors HD within the additional 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 footage 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 when you’re making an attempt 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 attention-grabbing 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 otherwise at totally different angles. But it surely’s really very correct to how I see the flooring in particular person. Relying on the angle, the lighting, and the time of day, the flooring might seem brighter, or they might seem barely darker and hotter.
However the total 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 occasions of the day, so it’s a must to 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 fitting. 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 desire the looks of the ground on the left, you’ll in all probability wish to stick to Bona Nordic Seal, which is the lightest shade out there. However when you just like the pure purple oak look however need simply the slightest contact of heat, the Bona Pure Seal is the fitting 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 (purple oak stained with a combination of darkish walnut and particular walnut) and the brand new lighter, brighter purple oak flooring.
What an incredible distinction!! I like the lighter flooring a lot extra! And now the countdown begins. The flooring require three days to completely remedy, 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
