Pureline oak in a Hillsborough new build
A new house on a bush edge in Hillsborough, built by Box Build, with one pale oak floor carried from the entry through the kitchen and dining and out to the covered deck. The floor is Foundation Pureline, laid across 83 square metres.
A quiet floor for a busy view
The house is glazed on two sides and opens straight into mature trees, so the room changes colour all day. Everything else in it is doing something: plywood joinery with a warm red cast, black window frames, a bright outdoor room off the dining end.
The floor had one job, which was to sit under all of that without competing with it. That pointed at a pale, even board rather than anything rustic or heavily figured.
Why Pureline
Pureline is the prime-grade oak in our Foundation Collection. Prime grade means the boards are selected for consistency, so there are few knots and little tonal jump from one plank to the next. In a room this open, that reads as one continuous surface rather than a pattern.
It is an engineered board in a wide plank, milled to a single fixed length so every plank in the pack matches, and finished with a lacquer. Engineered construction is what lets a board this wide stay flat through a New Zealand summer and winter.
One floor, entry to deck
The same oak runs from the entry, past a vertical timber screen, through the kitchen and dining and up to the sliding doors. Keeping one floor across the whole level is what makes a modest footprint feel larger than it is.
The pale tone also does something useful on a bush site: it bounces what light there is back into the room instead of swallowing it.
Pale oak, warm house
Finished, the floor is the calmest thing in the house, which is exactly what it was chosen to be. The plywood joinery and the mid-century furniture supply the warmth; the oak gives them somewhere quiet to sit.
Built by Box Build. Photography by Sophie Heyworth.
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