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When renovating the interior of your home with a new interior design, the existing hardwood floors may need a makeover. Rather than the same drab and dull hardwood finishes, it is time to think about design when refinishing the floors throughout your home. The following hardwood floor refinishing ideas will help give your interior design project a custom flooring makeover:

Bleaching of Darker-Colored Finishes 

When you are refinishing older hardwood flooring materials, one of the issues that you may have is that they are all dark. This might be a problem for a more contemporary interior design for your home. Therefore, you may want to use bleaching techniques to refinish the floors with a new look. Bleaching can have a surprising effect on different types of woods because there are color variations. This can depend on the type of bleaching chemicals that are used, the type of wood, and the stains that are being removed.

Techniques to Create Dark Ebonized Finishes

There are wood finishing techniques to create a unique ebonizing effect on hardwood floors. This can be great if you want darker wood floors, except with different tones than the normal reds. Today, ebonizing stains can be used if you are looking for a more traditional hardwood finish. If you want different hardwood floor finishes, you can also scorch the surface of the wood with a torch and then seal it. The carbon burn marks will create a unique ebonized finish for your floors.

Create Stenciled Design With Stains for New Finishes

There are also options to create more decorative and artistic designs with your floor refinishing project. The benefit of stenciling designs into the wood is that there are different options to create them. First, conventional stains can be used to mix colors and create patterns for the designs on the floors. You can also use stencils for brazing designs into the wood, which will be protected with a sealant when the floors are refinished.

Lay-In Hardwood Flooring Details Cut Into the New Finishes

The hardwood floors can also be improved with lay-in wood features. These can be prefabricated wood designs that are cut into the surface of the floors before refinishing them. You can ask your hardwood finishing contractor about options to add these lay-in designs to areas of your floors, such as foyers or centerpieces for living room spaces. They can create unique custom features for your interior design project.

The new finishes for your hardwood floors can make them look like they were just installed yesterday. Contact a hardwood floor refinishing service to discuss these options if you want to refinish your hardwood floors.