Blue Mahoe is one of very few woods with an overall gray heartwood appearance (in its fresh and unweathered state), and perhaps the only commercially available wood that can exhibit a bluish hue.
Oak (hardwood)
It is available in two types; red oak and white oak. The white variety is, in fact, more of a greyish-brown shade, while red oak is similar but with a reddish tinge.
However, cedar that is destined to live outdoors needs some special care and attention. Specifically, it needs to be treated with a good wood stain. Otherwise, your nice cedar color will fade to a dull, nasty grey.
Heartwood is typically a medium reddish brown with irregularly spaced streaks of dark brown to black. Sapwood is easily distinguished from the heartwood and is a brownish-white to gray. Color tends to darken this wood with age.
The whitest natural wood available is holly. Such a simple name and well-known presence almost make it seem impossible, but holly is known worldwide as the whitest wood available. There are over 200 species of holly growing worldwide, making it easily accessible for most buyers.
Radiation from the sun's ultraviolet rays breaks down the lignin in the cellulose causing photo chemical degradation, and it occurs in any wood exposed to sunlight. The result is a change in the wood's appearance from it's original color to a gradual silvery gray sheen.
The world's blackest wood is ebony the world's whitest wood is holly.
Otherwise known as “red ivory”, pink ivory is a high-value African wood that's native to the southern part of Africa, and it's been said that this kind of exotic wood that is rarer than diamonds. Specifically, you can find pink ivory trees in Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Benefits of pale wood
'Pale' can cover a whole gamut of colours — sometimes creamy-white, sometimes light golden or anywhere in between. Light-coloured types of wood usually have a native climate in the northern hemisphere, often grouped together as 'temperate hardwoods'.
Hickory is a dense, highly resistant wood. It is coarse, and the grain is generally straight but occasionally wavy. The color of hickory varies in tone from dark brown to blond beige, even changing slightly to a golden hue.
This is a natural weathering process that turns the wood grey, which is mainly caused by sunlight. The ultra violet rays start to break down the cellulose that then causes chemical degradation in the wood. This process makes the colour of the wood change from its newly installed rich colour, to a silver/grey.
All natural species of woods such as Ipe, Western Red Cedar, Pine, Douglas Fir ,including thermally modified wood, will naturally grey over time if there is no accompanying maintenance program such as applying a yearly or semi-yearly coating of wood stain containing a UV inhibitor.
Grey Wood Floors
As our most extensive color line, you can find endless design possibilities when looking to capture perfect grey hardwood floors. Stylish and smart, Grey Scale's range of contemporary tones is complemented by our oil finishes. All colors are presented on White Oak flooring.
We offer gray hardwood floors in a range of different woods and stains, a range of plank widths and in a choice of traditional solid and SolidPlus® engineered construction flooring: Your selection of wood for gray hardwood floors include red oak, white oak, maple and hickory.
The outermost portion of the tree, dubbed sapwood due to the fact that it transports the tree's nutrients, is often a pale blonde tint, however it can also be yellow-gray. In contrast to cherry, maple, and oak, which all darken with age, walnut wood actually lightens slightly with age.
Pale Oak is a taupe. This means that it's a neutral paint color sitting in between gray and beige. However, while some taupes cater to gray or beige, Pale Oak hovers somewhere in the middle.
Pale Oak can be described as a light greige with warm, yellow undertones. Greige paint colors are right in between a gray and a beige, and may appear more beige or more gray depending on their surroundings.
Balsa wood is the lightest commercial material in the world.
Blue is a tough color to spot in nature because there is no naturally occurring blue compound to color things blue. This is why blue rocks and minerals are so rare and why it was so pricey back when the Egyptians began mining the vibrant blue lapis lazuli mineral thousands of years ago.
African Blackwood is one of the hardest and densest wood in the world and is mostly used for musical instruments. It is considered as the most expensive wood in the world because not only it is challenging to work with hand or machine tools, its trees are already near-threatened.
American White Oak Timber (Quercus Alba) is very popular for interior joinery, furniture and kitchens. Although generally resembling European oak, American white oak is more variable in colour, ranging from pale yellow-brown to pale reddish-brown, often with a pinkish tint.
Blue Mahoe is one of very few woods with an overall gray heartwood appearance (in its fresh and unweathered state), and perhaps the only commercially available wood that can exhibit a bluish hue.
Balsa wood is not only the softest wood worldwide, it is also extremely light. For this reason, it is often used in the tropical regions of the world for the construction of rafts. Even modellers love the soft natural material.