Is it possible to stain wood laminate flooring (darker) ?

I think it depends on the laminate. Some laminate is a veneer on top, and that can be very lightly sanded and you can use minwax poly. Some laminates are 100% engineered wood, so the top layer is sort of a printed wood imitation. I am quite sure this should not be sanded, but you still might be able to get a minwax poly over the top to make the shade richer or darker, but not lighter. There's a huge variation in the types of laminates out there, one big clue that you cant sand your floors would be if you see a consistent "repeat" in the wood pattern on the boards. Obviously, the wood patterns in nature are different each time, and you wouldn't have "twin boards" every third board. Hope this helps.

I think this will work for the veneered laminates. we have a room in our new home that has a light colored laminate with both sun damage and some dings and scratches. I am going to give it a very light sand and try the minwax in pecan, so it matches the rest of the house and I can blend in the dings and scratches better.

Sorry! Laminate is real wood not a photo. It is secondary wood laminated in opposing grain directions with a top layer of hardwood veneer and a plasticized bonded coating.

Gee thats what they told me at Lumber Liquidators, and the one with the wood veneer is engineered wood they said.

OK looked it up William, this is also what I was told at Lumber Liquidators, and this is from Wikipedia.

Laminate flooring (also called floating wood tile in the United States) is a multi-layer synthetic flooringproduct fused together with a lamination process.Laminate flooring simulates wood (or sometimes stone) with a photographic applique layer under a clear protective layer.

So apparently there's some confusion between laminate flooring and Solid and Engineered wood floorings. I've always had laminate flooring described to me as chipboard or HDF with a wood veneer, but that was clearly not what I could see being sold as laminate in shops. Especially Lumber Liquidators.

Engineered wood flooring is made of plywood with a veneer of fine hardwood on top. Laminate flooring is made of thin, pressed wood board with an image of wood on top similar to laminate used on cabinets and countertops covered by a clear aluminum oxide "wear layer" to protect the image. Debatable. Certainly, the thin veneer skin on top is real wood.

Well there could very well be a brand ..... but that is usually sold as veneer or engineered wood. I searched and only brand I found that combines laminate with a wood veneer... http://www.par-ky.com/us/ a Belgium company. Pergo brand sells wood veneer but its sold as engineered hardwood. I did find a UK company selling wood veneer floors but not as a laminate.

So I doubt any laminate sold in a big box stores or lumber liquidators here has a wood veneer that could be sanded and stained because then they would be setting up a competition to their engineered wood sales.

I do like some of the new 12mm laminates especially the hand scraped that appears to be wood. And this had gained more popularity for folks who don't want to spend the money for engineered hardwoods. In discussions of home values only engineered wood floors gain value, laminate floors in a high end house suffer reduced market value.

Laminate is a photo of wood, stone or other solid or patterns with a clear sealer on top, therefore if you sand it your going to negate your warranty.

When I got the laminate slate boards for my kitchen I brought a brand that had a sealer in the locking seams to prevent water infiltration. So they are improving it all the time.