{"id":3469,"date":"2015-10-09T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:29:03","slug":"exterior-black-finishes-rustic-smart-on-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/exterior-black-finishes-rustic-smart-on-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Exterior Black Finishes \u2013 Rustic, Smart, On-Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black is beautiful! This week \n\nWood Finishes Direct<\/a> are diving into all things black and<\/em> making two excellent recommendations to help you achieve absolutely glorious black exterior wood.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Black Barn Conversion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The beauty of black<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Black is a magical colour. It’s always in fashion. Nothing clashes with it and every colour gleams against it, the contrast giving every shade extra depth and richness. It’s subtle too, sitting in the background and letting other colours shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black masks ugly shapes and smooths sharp angles, so it’s kind to landscapes. Paint your wooden garden fence black and it makes your garden look much bigger than a paler colour would. Flowers glow against it and greens are lusciously, mouth-wateringly greener. What’s not to like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same goes indoors. Counter-intuitively, perhaps, black can be used to brilliant effect to make spaces look bigger as well as changing their shape and adding interior decor drama. Take one old wooden wardrobe, chest of drawers or dressing table. Transform and update it with a black wood stain or black paint then highlight the carving, door or draw edges and any other sticky-out parts with an antique gold wax. Voila, instant cool. And black floorboards look totally stunning whether matt or glossy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s sophisticated and good-looking, but it’s also practical. Black is great for hiding a multitude of sins, looking handsome long after a pale wood finish has gone all grubby and tatty. So it’s perfect if the exterior wood you want to finish is next to a road, for example a front garden fence prone to car-sprayed mud.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Black Shingle House – Dungeness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Why is a black finish on barns and beams a tradition?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The elegant, ancient fish smoking sheds on Hastings beach in Sussex are tarred black to preserve the wood from the salty, sandy winds that roar in from the west. Trundle down many a country road in Britain and you’ll pass a lovely old brick barn with a wooden roof that’s as black as your hat, wonderfully saggy and mellow, perfectly complementing the landscape in which it sits. Visual poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The black finish used to create the effect is all down to what people used to use to preserve wood, before today’s refined, modern and more colourful products came along. Depending on the age of an ancient wooden barn, the last people to paint it might have used black tar varnish or some kind of old-school bituminous paint, both of which are naturally black. It wasn’t an appearance thing, it was all practicality, simply about what you had to hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A huge choice of contemporary black exterior wood finishes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There’s a remarkable variety of exterior black finishes to choose from these days. The same goes for interior black finishes, a fact bearing testament to the colour’s long-lived popularity, a look you can achieve on barns and beams as well as an endlessly inspirational number of wood-based projects. Whatever you want to do with them, black wood finishes deliver a scrumptious finish that’s rich, deep and subtle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We thought it’d be handy to take a look at the sheer variety of black wood finishes we have in stock and focus in on two of the finest black exterior finishes in town, a couple of our best-sellers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Black Shed House Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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What kind of wood finishes in black do we stock?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You name it, you can often get a black version. Here’s a short list of just some of the black wood finishes we sell, carefully chosen by our experts for their exceptional performance and great value for money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 exceptional black wood finishing products<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. \n\nRonseal 10 year exterior black gloss<\/a> or satin water-based paint<\/strong> \u2013 This one colours and protects wood beautifully and, being water-based, it’s really easy to use<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \n\nBlack Cuprinol exterior wood preservative<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 A brilliant water-based preserver perfect for rough and smooth timber<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. \n\nMorrells two-part coloured wood filler<\/a> in black<\/strong> \u2013 an amazingly strong two part filler<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. \n\nManns pine wood stain<\/a> in black<\/strong>\u2013 Seriously good quality water-based wood stain<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Black \n\nBona gap master<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 silicon-free, highly flexible mastic for filling gaps in skirting and floor boards<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. \n\nManns oak wood stain<\/a> in black<\/strong> \u2013 Specially formulated to deliver a glorious black finish to hard woods like oak. Manns also do specialist black floor stains…<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Barrettine black decking stain<\/strong> \u2013 A top-notch black stain for decking and exterior wood<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Sikkens Rubbol XD Gloss<\/strong> – is an exceptionally durable, high build, solvent-borne, opaque coating providing a high gloss finish<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Two top-rated black exterior wood finishes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Here are three excellent black exterior finishes. If you have an outdoor wood project coming up, they’re all highly recommended: \n\nRonseal Total Wood Preserver in Black<\/a>, \n\nCuprinol Exterior Wood Preserver in Black<\/a> and \n\nBarrettine Black Bitumen Paint<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    About Barrettine Synthetic Black Timber Stain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n