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What colour is this?

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BornOfFrustration · 07/04/2014 10:13

I'm looking for something to store toys in that is similar to this. We got this off fleabay a while ago and I thought it was oak, but I cant find anything similar anywhere but I don't really know what I should be searching for ont tinternet. I know it's solid wood, and bloody heavy. I really wanted expedit but they don't do any similar colours so i'm open to other suggestions. Any ideas? Thanks

What colour is this?
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WowOoo · 07/04/2014 10:36

It looks like oak to me too. Not very helpful sorry.
The table i'm on now is oak and is exactly the same as the medium colour in your pic.

hashtagwhatever · 07/04/2014 10:42

I would have said oak aswell. But I know there is light oak and mid oak and dark oak.

Sorry that just confused the situation all the more didn'tit

CorusKate · 07/04/2014 10:46

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8isalotoflegsDavid · 07/04/2014 10:48

The colour looks like light oak and dark/medium oak, and I'm pretty sure that's what it is, although in places the grain looks very much like cherry.

It's hard to tell from a photo, but if there is any warmness and reddishness to it then it probably is cherry. Oak tends to be lacking in redness even in the darker oaks.

BornOfFrustration · 07/04/2014 11:16

Thanks, I think I'm getting a bit closer. There's no red in it, I've googled 'medium oak satin' and some of those are looking quite similar. Think it's going to cost to get a match though, no cheapy ikea-alike found the moment unfortunately. I wonder if I could get an untreated pine and get a stain?

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WowOoo · 07/04/2014 11:35

We have some pine chairs and we've stained them with a medium oak. They look like a good match.

BornOfFrustration · 07/04/2014 12:51

It is rosewood, who'd have thunk it! Indian rosewood to be exact. More excited than I should be now, thanks everyone who helped. Need to check my eyes now because I still can't see any red in it.

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BuzzardBird · 07/04/2014 12:53

I was going to say it looks like Indian Rosewood or even Mango. Our dining room table is mango and looks exactly like that.

BornOfFrustration · 07/04/2014 13:32

Oh arse, you're right, it looks like Indian mango wood too [cries]

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BuzzardBird · 07/04/2014 13:51

Oh, sorry. It is just that mango wood is more than one colour like the photo. Rosewood tends to be more even.

BuzzardBird · 07/04/2014 13:52

Oak furnitureland sell Mango wood furniture.

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