5 Reasons to Choose Black Stain for your Floorboards

There is a plethora of floorboard stain colours at your fingertips when choosing what colour to stain your floorboards with. Your final choice will change how your home looks and feels, so consideration is key. You might be tempted to go the safe route and choose a natural timber look. However, an argument can be made to choose a more striking look for your floorboards.

One of these colours is black, which can be achieved using Feast Watson’s Black Japan Timber Floor Stain & Varnish.

Here are 5 reasons you should consider Black Japan as a colour when staining your floorboards.

Black floorboards add “WOW” factor to your home

While black stain is an unconventional colour for your floorboards, it can serve to give your interior flooring and your home that ever-elusive WOW factor. It tells the viewer something about you. It tells them that you aren’t afraid of bold choices.

Black flooring is becoming more popular, in large part because it looks incredible. To achieve that in your own home, our Black Japan range is the perfect choice. You can apply as many coats of our product as you want to achieve a more robust end result. One coat gives your floor that beautiful dark hue without overshadowing the grain in your timber while more coats allow you to lean further into a bolder Black Japan look.

The calming, “zen” ambience created by black stained floorboards paired with natural tones

You want people to feel at ease when they enter your home but still feel a sense of refinement from the interior design. That’s what Black Japan can do for you. When paired with natural tones and greenery, they won’t be able to help but have the image of a Japanese zen garden formed in their minds. A quality product like our Black Japan Timber Floor Stain & Varnish is something you can use to achieve that dark and sophisticated look for your floorboards.

You want your style to be evergreen

Like little black dresses, black floorboards never go out of style. Black matches with any other colour. Regardless of how you design the rest of your house, a black stain is sure to complement and potentially synergise with its surroundings. Because you can adjust the depth of your Black Japan look, it can be used as a foundation for a variety of themes. It is a quality product, and its look is evergreen, so you probably won’t be in a hurry to re-stain.

View black floorboards inspiration style guide using Black Japan Stain.

Refreshing your floorboards with dark stained floorboards

Your floorboards are looking worse for wear, and you want to shake things up a bit. Maybe you’d like to stain them black. But this won't be a simple task. You’re going to need to roll up your sleeves for this project. If your old floorboards were already stained and varnished prior to this, you’ll need to remove it all until you’re back to bare timber. Only then can you apply our Black Japan Timber Floor Stain & Varnish. The good news is that once that is done, our product can be applied in one step. In addition, the black stain can help mask minor blemishes on your old floorboards, making them look refreshed.

You’ve just installed new floorboards

Give your floorboards the VIP treatment from the get-go and transform them from plain to black in just three coats. If you’re satisfied with how it looks after only one coat, just apply a coat of a suitable timber floor polyurethane and that colour will be sealed.

With these 5 reasons in mind, what say you to joining the dark side?