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Oak Lintels


londoneye

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I am sure I have seen a post about this before, but can't seem to find it now I want it.

We have new oak lintels in our renovated barn, for 4 new windows.   We also left in the old oak lintel above the original barn door opening.

The old oak lintel is the lovely silvery grey colour.    One of the new lintels is also quite dark, but other three are very light colour.

Originally I wanted to sand down the fourth (darker) lintel and have four light coloured ones.   Now, however, I quite like the way the darker ones look.   Question:    any idea how long it will take for the lighter lintels to go a nice silvery grey colour?   Second question:    should I treat the lintels with anything?

Can anyone help?

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leave some old iron in a pail of water use nails chain anything like that then when water is nice and murky (Say after a fortnight) paint the raw wood with the water, this should accellerate the aging look and give the silver hue you refer to. Please note this will only work on raw untreated wood.
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