Wood stain swatches

Since you'll want to know what type of wood you're working with before beginning any woodworking project, especially building or refinishing a piece, this chart should come particularly handy. For identification, match the pictured wood grain types against your own wooden piece. Always make sure to free your wood from any disguises before attempting to identify it! 😉

This post is sponsored by Minwax. We've been wanting to do a wood/stain study for years now and in my head, I wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each. But with limited resources (not to mention space), we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by DIYers, with 6 […]

Elevate your woodworking projects with four captivating shades of light wood stain! Transform furniture, accents, and home decor with these stunning hues that enhance the natural beauty of the wood grain. Find your perfect shade and get ready to create stunning pieces with these light wood stains!

Want to stain birch plywood? Check out a ton of stains sampled to see how they will look and get tips for best results!

Daly's Wood Finishing Products - Brings Out the Beauty of Wood.

Reclaimed wood finishes

Cherry, Walnut, Mahogany diagram.

Wood Stains

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Welcome to wood flooring week! This week we are hoping to walk you through all the ins and outs of our first foray into refinishing our wood floors. Exciting? YES INDEED. Wood floors cover 95% of our first floor and all of our stairway and an upstairs hallway. Basically you can see wood flooring from ... Read More about How to pick the BEST wood stain for your floors

wood stain chart; like cinnamon or golden oak for maple wood

Sharing our favorite wood stain colors for our home. A tried-and-true combination that gives a gorgeous weathered, raw wood look every time!

Considering purchasing Early American wood stain by Varathane? We tested it on 5 types of wood so you can see how it will look!