Oak, shown for what it is
Patina is oak left honest. Wide boards, 240mm across and 2.2 metres long, with the knots, the grain and the natural colour movement all still in them. It’s finished to wear in rather than wear out, and it’s made to look like it’s already lived a life.
Old-world, on purpose. Patina reads like a floor that’s been walked for a hundred years — the kind you find in a French farmhouse or an old villa. We didn’t design the character in; it’s the oak’s own. Our job was to leave it there instead of smoothing it away.
The finish is an extra-matt UV lacquer — a clear film, cured under UV light at the factory, that sits on the surface and protects the timber underneath. It’s low-sheen: matt enough that the eye reads timber, not finish, so the brushed grain still comes through underfoot. Day to day it’s swept and cleaned with a lacquer-floor cleaner.
It’s an engineered board — a 4mm European oak wear layer over a stable 15mm core (15/4). Engineered construction — a cross-layered core beneath the oak wear layer — makes Patina more dimensionally stable than a solid timber board, so it copes better with the humidity changes of a New Zealand home. Every pack is milled predominantly in long lengths, so you’re laying long, calm boards rather than a floor full of offcuts.
Like all timber, engineered oak responds to changes in humidity; keep indoor conditions stable for best performance.
Four floors, one weathered family
Samples available now. New stock arrives in October. Price is the same across colours — we price by format, not by colour. Order a sample of any colour to see the grain, the brush and the colour movement in the room it’s going in.
The board detail
Start with a sample
Order a sample of any colour to see the grain, the brush and the colour movement in your own light. Talk to us and we’ll confirm quantities and timing.
‘European oak’ describes the timber species and where the oak is grown; the board itself is engineered overseas to Vienna Woods’ specification. As a natural timber product, some variation in colour, tone and grain between boards — and against samples and on-screen images — is normal and to be expected.