Colour service
Staining and full colour changes.
Scandinavian whites, fumed oak, smoked walnut, deep ebony. We bring sample boards into your home so you choose the colour with your own light, your own walls and your own floor.
Scandinavian whites, fumed oak, smoked walnut, deep ebony. We bring sample boards into your home so you choose the colour with your own light, your own walls and your own floor.
Colour swatches on a card and stains under showroom lighting tell you almost nothing about how a floor will read in your house. The pigment, the species, the grain, the time of day and the way your walls bounce light all change the result. So before you commit, we sand a small patch of your actual floor and lay two or three sample stains directly onto it, side by side, in the room they'll live in.
Once you've chosen, we apply the stain in even coats, allow full dwell, and seal with a clear hard-wax oil or lacquer over the top. Done well, a colour change can take a tired oak floor and make it the most considered surface in the house.
Two or three stain options laid onto your actual floor, in your actual light, before any commitment.
Single colour across the room, or contrasting borders and patterns for parquet and chevron floors.
We work across Bona Craft Oil, Osmo Polyx tinted oils and Rubio Monocoat for one-coat colour-and-seal.
Stain goes under two or three coats of clear lacquer or hard-wax oil for protection and to lift the colour.
After the first sanding pass we apply 2–3 stains to a corner of the room. We come back the next day to look at them in the right light.
Once you've picked, we finish the sanding sequence to a finer grit so the stain absorbs evenly across every board.
Stain applied in even coats with full dwell time, then sealed with two or three coats of clear finish.
Yes. Sanded oak takes pigment well. Going from a faded honey-coloured floor to a smoked or fumed look is one of our more common jobs.
Yes. The stains we use are translucent, they tint the wood, not paint over it. You'll see more grain on whites, less on deep ebonies, but the wood is always still visible.
Up until the stain goes down on the full floor, yes. That's the point of the on-site samples, we get to a colour you're sure of before we commit.
Typically one extra day for stain application and one for the additional sealing coat.
Modern pigmented oils and lacquers are very UV-stable. Direct south-facing sun will gently age any wood floor over years, but the dramatic fading of older oil stains is largely a thing of the past.
Sealed-extraction full sand-back using Bona and Lägler rigs. The fine dust traditional sanding leaves behind doesn't end up on your shelves, in your bedding or in your lungs.
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Resin-and-dust slurry for narrow gaps, slivered pine for wider ones, board swaps for water damage. We finish so the repair is invisible once the floor is sealed.
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Bona Craft Oil and Osmo Polyx. A natural matt look that lets the grain breathe, repairable in patches without re-sanding, walkable the same evening it's applied.
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The toughest commercial-grade lacquer on the market. Used in hotels, galleries and listed buildings, low-VOC and walkable in 12 hours.
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Lifting, re-gluing, levelling and refinishing original blocks. Herringbone, chevron, basket-weave and field-and-border. Listed-building experience.
Learn moreWe come out, take measurements, talk through finishes and follow up with a detailed quote. No deposit, no obligation.