Colors · oil, hardwax & lacquer
The color is the part you live with.
After sanding, your floor can stay natural or take a new tone. Oil brings out the grain, hardwax adds warmth with a tough layer, lacquer protects hardest and comes in several sheens. Still unsure? Ask for color samples on your own wood.
- Tones
- 24
- Sheens
- Matt / satin / gloss
- Samples
- Free
01 · How color works on wood
The finish decides the color as much as the pigment
Bare sanded wood is not a blank page — oak, ash and beech each take pigment differently, and the product you finish with shifts the result again. The same grey oil reads soft and chalky on ash and deeper on old oak. That is why we always sand a sample area before anything is decided.
02 · The range
Twenty-four tones, from untouched oak to near-black
Takes almost every pigment evenly — the reference wood for this range.
8 of 24 tones · on oak
Pure Natural
No pigment at all — just oil on bare oak. The grain darkens slightly and stays honest.
Screens lie a little: every tone is confirmed with a sanded sample on your own floor before we start.
Order this sample03 · In real rooms
The same color behaves differently in every room
Daylight direction, wall colour and the width of the boards change how a tone reads. These are floors we finished — click any of them to see the photo large.
- Two tones, one speciesWide-plank oak seen through black steel-framed doors: warm in the foreground, noticeably paler in the room beyond. The same wood can sit two tones apart in a single sightline.
- A hallway takes the hardest wearA hallway herringbone framed by a slim dark inlay that follows the walls to the foot of the stairs. Halls see shoes, rain and bikes, so this is where a colour and its finish are tested hardest.
- Daylight decides how a tone readsPine boards running past an open staircase to tall front windows. The same boards look lighter by the glass than at the back of the room — which is why we judge samples twice a day.
04 · Choosing with confidence
Four steps from shortlist to a decided floor
Start with the free calculator for an indication, then we look at the floor — from photos or on site — and put the shortlisted colors on your own wood.
- Shortlist two or three tonesPick from the range above; we advise on what suits your wood species.
- Samples on your own floorWe sand a hidden patch and apply each candidate side by side, free of charge.
- Judge at two times of dayMorning light and lamplight — leave the samples for 24 hours before deciding.
- Quote, date, care adviceA clear price, a planned day, and instructions for keeping the finish right.
05 · Questions about color
The things people ask before they choose
Free color advice and samples
Send a photo of your floor and the room it lives in. We come back with two or three tones worth testing — and bring them with us.