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Jun. 18th, 2022 09:13 amI don't want to whitewash the new wood because that just seems like a huge waste, and the heavy layer of white on the old wood is rough and cracked so I can't really match the texture anyway. Sanding the old wood, which is a thin veneer over thin plywood, quickly cuts completely through the veneer. Trying to remove the whitewash does expose a lot of the sandy wood color (not sure that's white oak after doing that tho... something else?) but at best, it's still heavily speckled with the whitewash. The old stuff doesn't take the white stain anything like the new stuff even if I wanted to go that route.
Replacing all of the ceiling liner is an option, but the new white oak is expensive, and that would require taking apart a lot more stuff than I have time for. The closet and bathroom, bathroom shower curtain track, cabinets, and other things bolt in to the ceiling, and trying to make replacement pieces match pieces not being replaced was the original plan.
Boiled linseed oil and raw linseed oil look basically the same. If I were doing this from scratch, I think I'd go that route. Next is Varathane "Sunbleached", which seems like will only give you a sunbleached look very much dependent on the wood. On this white oak, it just looks like tan paint and looks like crap. Next is Varathane (brand Home Despot carries, which I have a reasonable bike route to) Antique White, which is the closest for blending in the new stuff with the old, then General brand Whitewash, which is way too white.
Brain is spinning trying to figure this out. Sample of the old wood has Antique White splotches above the linseed oil blobs, straddling two different levels of sanding (Ridgid orbital sander with 220 grit, light on the left, trying to get all the white out on the right).
Yet another option might be to get the paper thin veneer and just paper over the old veneer to make it match. Then I could have white oak with linseed oil matched to white oak with linseed oil. I got 1/16" veneer because every report of the paper thin stuff said it's basically impossible to work with and I was kind of wondering if I had enough joists in the ceiling framing, if I wouldn't need backing on it (probably need backing on it, but trying to find something else really thin, maybe more 1/16" something). This has the advantage of doing what I want and kicking the can further down the road and having it actually work. Anyway, the blonde is beautiful, and the oiled is still beautiful, but I kind of hate the white paint stains.
I did not mean to get in to wood finishing. Was thinking I could do a similar stain on a similar grain and it would just all be fine. Had I known, I would have done tin ceiling tiles:
Replacing all of the ceiling liner is an option, but the new white oak is expensive, and that would require taking apart a lot more stuff than I have time for. The closet and bathroom, bathroom shower curtain track, cabinets, and other things bolt in to the ceiling, and trying to make replacement pieces match pieces not being replaced was the original plan.
Boiled linseed oil and raw linseed oil look basically the same. If I were doing this from scratch, I think I'd go that route. Next is Varathane "Sunbleached", which seems like will only give you a sunbleached look very much dependent on the wood. On this white oak, it just looks like tan paint and looks like crap. Next is Varathane (brand Home Despot carries, which I have a reasonable bike route to) Antique White, which is the closest for blending in the new stuff with the old, then General brand Whitewash, which is way too white.
Brain is spinning trying to figure this out. Sample of the old wood has Antique White splotches above the linseed oil blobs, straddling two different levels of sanding (Ridgid orbital sander with 220 grit, light on the left, trying to get all the white out on the right).
Yet another option might be to get the paper thin veneer and just paper over the old veneer to make it match. Then I could have white oak with linseed oil matched to white oak with linseed oil. I got 1/16" veneer because every report of the paper thin stuff said it's basically impossible to work with and I was kind of wondering if I had enough joists in the ceiling framing, if I wouldn't need backing on it (probably need backing on it, but trying to find something else really thin, maybe more 1/16" something). This has the advantage of doing what I want and kicking the can further down the road and having it actually work. Anyway, the blonde is beautiful, and the oiled is still beautiful, but I kind of hate the white paint stains.
I did not mean to get in to wood finishing. Was thinking I could do a similar stain on a similar grain and it would just all be fine. Had I known, I would have done tin ceiling tiles:
