Chestnut Vs Walnut Wood Color

Lighter shades like cherry and golden oak will accent the natural grains and beauty of a floor while still giving it some depth and color.

Chestnut vs walnut wood color.

Chestnut wood doesn t refer to wood from a single tree but rather from a family of trees. I tend to view special walnut as a lighter brown stain. The most well known is the american chestnut which can appear in various shades from a pale white through medium brown which develops a reddish hue with age. You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons.

If you ve never heard of special walnut you won t forget it now. I already have an ae chestnut belt and to my eye the two belts look exactly the same. Harvest fc 107 almond fc 42000 sealy. Special walnut is one of the go to brown stains that isn t too dark.

This post is sponsored by minwax. On that note red brown shaded stains like walnut and chestnut have a very warming homey effect in a home and are a very safe bet. Walnut stain colors category 1 limed oak fc 108 natural. Are they the same or similar enough that i should return the new belt.

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 different stains. Recently i ordered a new pair of strands in walnut and also ordered the matching walnut belt.