Wood naturally changes color when exposed to sunlight. It is essential to be aware of it as you may want your floor to be a particular shade and will need to know this when purchasing your hardwood floor. These natural changes are lovely because indeed they add character and beauty to your wooden floor. If you like rugs, you’ll notice as you move them around the different shade where the areas were unexposed.
Examples of wood changing color
- Brazilian Cherry (or Jatoba)
The sapwood of Brazilian Cherry has broad markings with shades of grey and pink sometimes apparent. The heartwood is darker from salmon pink to reddish brown, with dark streaks. Over time, this wood turns to a deeply rich and vibrant red.
- Ash
While the sapwood is almost white, the heartwood goes from light brown to yellow, with grey and brown streaks. It will darken from a lighter sandy tone to a warm tan coloring.
- Red Oak
Purchasing the right colored wood for your home
The sapwood of red oak is white to light brown, while the sapwood is pink to reddish brown. This wood is hard and durable, with a straight grain, and takes a wide array of different colored stains quite naturally. It goes through a medium degree of color change with a specific amber tone added to the pink. A beautiful choice.
- Walnut
Walnut has creamy white sapwood with a light brownish to chocolate heartwood, that can even go purple. Over the years, the wood gains a specific luster adding a medium to a high degree of change, the dark brown heartwood becoming lighter to reach a golden brown shade.
- Cherry
Creamy white sapwood with reddish to dark red heartwood, Cherry is one of the trees that undergoes the fastest color change with a medium color change from creamy white to golden in a matter of weeks.
- Oak
The brown shades of oak acquire an attractive amber shade over the years that is very sought after.
How to make the right choice?
Purchasing the right colored wood for your hardwood flooring may be a little bit daunting as it seems that there is so much to know and chose from. Rest assured that T&G Flooring can help and advise you. Please come and visit us in one of our showrooms in Denver or Evergreen for a chat or call us. We will make your hardwood flooring purchase experience a pleasant one.