What to Expect with Fumed Floors
![Fuming bar graph to demonstrate the color range that occurs in fumed floors. Fuming bar graph to demonstrate the color range that occurs in fumed floors.](https://hallmarkfloors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/fumed-shading-graph.png)
Fuming simply deepens the natural colors and highlights the contrast of the wood planks without using stain to cover them. Our process creates a naturally richer, darker, clearer floor with a higher contrast of colors from board to board.
What is Fumed Hardwood?
This is a natural accelerated aging process used to enhance the dark to light shades within every wood plank, batch & region. The deepening in color and variation is created by adding a natural oxidizing agent in a controlled environment to react with the naturally present tannins in the wood – Time, Temperature & Tannins (naturally present in the wood) mix to create one of a kind planks that we add to our Collections. While a very controlled environment and process, it is not 100% precise, every region, grove and tree produces individually unique high contrast color palette.
Wildly Beautiful Color Variation
Region Variation
![Region 1 of Wildly Beautiful Color Variation Region and Batch Variation Chart illustrates the natural color variation that occurs with trees from different regions. Region Variation 1 of Wildly Beautiful Color Variation Region and Batch Variation Chart illustrates the natural color variation that occurs with trees from different regions.](https://hallmarkfloors.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Region-and-batch-Variation-Chart-part1.jpg)
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