With summer just around the corner you may be one of the large number of people who are getting ready to purchase some outdoor furniture.
You want to make a change to your back yard and you think this will be the best way to go.
For many people they're willing to spend a little more upfront to make sure they have great furniture that's going to last a long time.
This often means a purchase of teak furniture.
But do you know what teak furniture really looks like? Sure, you know teak furniture is a kind of wood furniture.
But, teak is a unique wood that can have a couple of different color options for you to choose from.
These options are going to come because of how you treat your teak furniture after you get it home.
Brown Teak Furniture Most likely, if you've looked at brand-new teak pieces, you've seen them in shades of brown and orange.
These can be extremely attractive.
In order to keep the furniture looking this way once you get it home, however, you have to know how to properly take care of it to maintain this color scheme.
The first thing you have to do is make sure the wood is adequately oiled.
Now, when it comes to teak, this is not that hard of a job.
Teak wood is an oil rich wood.
In many cases, it essentially oils itself as oil keeps leeching out of the wood for many years to come.
But, since the wood is no longer able to produce new oil, since it's been cut and formed into furniture, it doesn't hurt for you to help this along.
You can find teak oil at any marine store and use it to help enrich the surface of the wood.
The next thing you need to do to keep any pieces of teak holding that brown and orange color is to keep the sun from impacting the wood.
You see, sun will lighten the color of teak wood and even change it, sometimes quite drastically.
Therefore, if your teak pieces are going to be set outside, you need to make sure they're adequately shaded.
You can choose a furniture umbrella to go over your teak set or make sure it's under a covered patio or awning to help protect it from some of the suns most damaging rays.
Silver Teak furniture If you've seen some pieces of teak patio furniture that have a silver or gray look to them and like this look, you're going to have to make sure to treat your furniture right to get this look for your home.
This is not that hard to accomplish.
You see, what changes the wood into that distinguished silvery color is sunlight.
Therefore, what you need to do is make sure that your teak furniture is regularly allowed to sit out and it won't be long before you watch those dark colors start to fade away and those shades of silver that you'd like come to the surface.