Antique oak: color characteristics

Domestic and foreign manufacturers artificially age wood to make antique-style finishing materials from it. Modern designers embody the trends of the past in the interior. The fashion trend has also touched oak. In this way, woodworking enterprises began to produce massive boards, parquet flooring, and other elements from aged oak material.

Aged oak elements in antique style are considered by decorators to be universal. Their appearance is most often classic, traditionally brown. Of the modern solutions, the antique oak color has become popular, since the samples have a texture with artificial irregularities, knots, and traces of processing. The colors are offered in a wide range: from light tones to pronounced dark wenge. All oak products are distinguished by their luxurious structure.

Each of the shades has a place in the creation of interesting and rich interiors. Strong, naturally hard wood does not lend itself to decay; when processed, it is given a surface that repels dust. The complex produces durable interior details. Surface tinting, varnishing in production provide reliable protection of products from burnout, minor scratches.

Manufacturers have developed shades from white to dark brown. There are tons of golden, grayish tones that go well with classic browns. Basic colors of antique oak:

• white with shades: bleached, milky, ash, pearl, vanilla, cream;
• golden;
• stained.

Each of the colors has a lot of its own shades. In nature, only young trees have white wood, they are not processed. With age, the wood darkens, which allows manufacturers to either fix the natural shade, or give it others, using different processing methods.

Different bleaching technologies for different types of wood give the materials interesting, distinctive shades. Designers combine bleached oak with sunny yellow, light lilac, gray, emerald. Interesting contrasting solutions are combinations of white with dark, brown, pronounced gold. The golden shade is the closest to natural, having a light straw shade. A rich gold tone is obtained by coating with varnishes of different colors. In the interior, they are successfully combined with warm ocher tones. It is straw-colored, light and dark brown.

Nature gives the dark shade of antique oak. The wood can be of any dark tone depending on the type of wood. Light woods are brought to different shades of dark in production by heat treatment.

The most remarkable is bog oak. In nature, it becomes so if it lies in water for many years. Modern production has developed an artificial staining method that gives the wood a wide variety of shades. Artificial staining will help to get smoky shades, so beloved by interior decorators. In the interior, dark varieties of antique oak look good with velvety orange, marsh.

Black tree varieties grow in the African tropics, jungles. But black shades give wood and artificial aging, achieving a natural dark chocolate tone. Combinations of antique black oak with dark brown and gray tones look great in the design of the premises. An interesting solution is contrasting combinations of black with light gray, beige shades.

Decorators appreciate the natural aesthetics of the wood cut. Natural large circles, a pattern created by nature, a wide range of colors of the antique style allow you to create inimitable interior views. Antique oak is used today:

• parquet floors;
• stairs;
• interior doors;
• skirting boards.

The pliability of oak to different processing methods makes it possible to achieve an interesting texture, beautiful woody patterns, rich color solutions even in one version of the antique. The variety of colors and shades of engineered boards, laminated chipboard, MDF makes an interesting range of combinations of different antique oak in one interior. Most often, antique oak is used by decorators in chalet, Tudor, high-tech styles.