painting wood

[Acchillo]

I stripped all the paint off the balustrade of my staircase and plan install some spindles to replace some wooden panels

After this I will have:
- red pine newel post (stripped and sanded)
- Oak handrail (stripped and sanded)
- Oak spindles (newly installed).

My hope is that oak and pine will blend well together. I looked around for paint and got confused. There are several different products in the market to varnish interior wood (all sorts of oil, solvent varnishes, water/acrylic varnishes; liming; eggshell pain, diamond hardwearing paints......).

I cannot obviously try them all. What would be your recommnedation?

Acchillo

 

[Thermo]

what you use depends on what you want it to look like when its finished.
do you still want to see the natural wood?
do you want it a different colour, but still want to see the wood?
do you want it to be a totally different colour and not see the grain of the wood?
is it going to take a bashing from children etc?

answer some of those questions and we can get a bit further with the question

Thermo

 

[Acchillo]

Absolutely right! thanks Thermo

We would like to keep the wood effect and grain, so no dye/colour that is not a wood varnish.

The oak (old and new) should be varnished, I am not sure about the newel post as it is a different wood. We wil ltry to varnish and if we will not like the effect we will paint it white.

I suspect a staircase will receive some sort of bashing, so it should be a resistent paint.