Wood Colour Finishing – Enhancing the Natural Character of Solid Wood
For upholstery that lives outside, the fabric works as hard as the frame underneath it. We use Hikaron, an established Indonesian textile manufacturer with two decades of experience supplying furnishing fabrics to international brands — not a generic "outdoor-grade polyester" sourced without a name behind it.
Hikaron's outdoor range is built specifically to handle sun, humidity, and daily contact without the fading or fiber breakdown that shortens the life of ordinary upholstery fabric. On a teak frame, that combination means the whole piece — wood and fabric — is built to the same standard, rather than a premium frame paired with fabric that gives out first.
Below is our current Hikaron outdoor colour range. Each option works across sofas, lounge chairs, and daybeds for terraces, poolside areas, and hospitality seating — let us know which tone fits your project and we'll send physical swatches before production.
This finish uses a lime- or pigment-based wash worked into the open grain of the teak, then wiped back so the recessed grain lines hold more colour than the raised surface — which is what gives whitewash its texture rather than a flat, painted look. It lightens the wood significantly without hiding it. Best suited to Scandinavian, coastal, and bright minimalist interiors, and to spaces that get strong natural light, where a dark wood tone can otherwise feel heavy.
White Wash
Rather than a stain sitting on top of the wood, this finish uses an oil-based treatment that soaks into the teak and deepens its own natural tone — the grain gets richer and more defined rather than covered over. Because it's oil rather than a painted-on colour, it also ages gracefully; light wear tends to blend in rather than show as chipping. Suits executive interiors, fine dining spaces, and any room where you want the wood itself, not a colour effect, to be the focus.
natural dark
This is the least altered of our finishes — a clear protective coat over teak's own golden tone, with the grain left fully visible. It's the finish to choose when a client wants the wood to look, essentially, like the piece a craftsman just finished sanding: warm, honest, and unadorned. Works well in tropical and contemporary interiors where brightness matters, and it's the easiest finish to touch up later since there's no colour match to get exactly right.
natural light
A deeper, warmer stain than natural dark, built to read as "walnut" even though the piece is solid teak underneath — a common request from clients who love teak's durability but want the visual weight of a darker hardwood. The added depth and contrast make grain patterns stand out more than in a lighter finish. A strong choice for boutique hotel lobbies and formal dining rooms where the furniture is meant to anchor the room.
walnut brown
Teak left outdoors and untreated will silver naturally over a few years as UV and weather draw the natural oils to the surface — this finish recreates that exact look on day one, through a controlled ageing process rather than waiting years for nature to do it. It's popular for pieces going into already-established outdoor spaces, where brand-new-looking furniture would otherwise stand out against an aged setting.
patina grey
A deeper, near-charcoal version of the same weathered effect, applied through a pigmented stain rather than natural oxidation, so the tone is intentional and consistent piece to piece. Where patina grey reads as "aged teak," patina black reads more architectural — it's the finish that shows up most often on statement dining tables and feature cabinetry where the client wants the furniture's silhouette, not its wood-grain colour, to be the first thing you notice.
patina black
This is a genuine chemical lightening process, not a light stain — it actually reduces the wood's natural pigment, which is why bleached teak reads noticeably brighter than natural light or whitewash rather than just "less brown." It opens up smaller rooms and works particularly well where a client wants a Scandinavian or Mediterranean-white palette but still needs the structural performance of solid teak rather than a painted softwood.
bleached
A pigmented matte lacquer that fully covers the teak's natural tone in favour of a flat, non-reflective black — the one finish on this list where the wood's colour is not the point. Grain texture is still faintly visible under raking light, which keeps it from looking like plastic, but the overall effect is architectural and graphic. Suits modern and industrial interiors, and pieces meant to read as sculptural objects rather than warm, natural-wood furniture.
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