Parquet treatments are finishing processes applied to the wooden board before installation, all sharing a common goal: to enhance the boards with treatments, dyes, and colors that highlight the material’s characteristics, making it suitable for a variety of environments to meet diverse aesthetic and furnishing needs.
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Antiqued and smoked parquet: the differences
An antiqued parquet is a wooden floor whose boards are treated with techniques such as planing or deep brushing to simulate wear from foot traffic and time. To achieve this effect, the parquet is darkened with colors darker than the original, enhancing all possible shades and color ranges of the initial brown.
It is a surface treatment based on chemical-mechanical processes that gives the parquet a more lived-in, elegant, and austere appearance, suitable for classic-style interiors.
Equally fascinating is the smoked parquet variant, similar in color to the antiqued version, but resulting from a process that affects the entire board, not just its surface. It ensures superior protection from moisture—the parquet can be safely installed in bathrooms, kitchens, and outdoor spaces—and from potential fungi, mold, woodworms, and termites; it also offers greater stability.
Additionally, the floor’s color and look remain unchanged even after subsequent sanding.
Signature-Smoked Oak
Bleached or pickled parquet
We refer to bleached parquet when a white oil or varnish is applied to the surface of the boards, in light shades ranging from ice to ivory, including light gray. The aim is to highlight the wood grain, and the effect largely depends on the type of oil or varnish used, as well as their quantity and density. Bleached parquet can appear smooth or brushed with special rotary brushes in Teflon; or sanded to return it to its original color.
In line with the idea of “lightening,” pickled parquet results from a treatment where the oak grain is highlighted by lightening it with a lime wash and a thermal treatment.
Alternatively, for a similar visual impact, the boards can be varnished or oiled and then brushed—i.e., scratched—to give greater visibility to the grain itself.
Dream Bleached Walnut
Woodco parquet ranges and treatments
Within our collections, you can find different treatments; such as the smoked effect in the Signature catalog, which gives a more brown color to the noble wood layer and allows for chromatic effects with warm and contemporary tones. Or the bleached effect of Larch and Walnut essences in the Dream collection, as well as all our woods can undergo the brushing treatment. This is a process carried out with Teflon brushes that remove the softer part of the wood from the board’s surface, highlighting its color, grain pattern, and material effect through a more or less vigorous action.
Common to all our parquet is being varnished or oiled with completely natural products, preserving the wood’s characteristics intact, ensuring high wear resistance, protection from external agents, and easier maintenance.
