The conclusion was that its very hard to make dark/orange boards lighter with osmo, you kind of need to work with the shade you have.
This is unsurprising as that's what it says on the label ;)
But yeah, the colour you get with Osmo Polyx depends on the colour of your boards. If they are orangey that's what you'll get.
I've not used the raw but it is meant to help lighten.
Correct. It's basically impossible to make red wood floors look like whitewashed douglas fir. We tried a patch of our unidentified red wood parquet with Osmo raw and it ended up looking limed, with whiter grain, like this:
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This is unsurprising as that's what it says on the label ;)
But yeah, the colour you get with Osmo Polyx depends on the colour of your boards. If they are orangey that's what you'll get.
I've not used the raw but it is meant to help lighten.