Château Montauk Oak Flooring in a Saint Heliers Home
Extra-wide, deep taupe-brown oak boards run through this Saint Heliers home. Vienna Woods supplied Château Montauk, an engineered European oak in a rustic grade with a matt lacquer finish. Wide boards, few joins, and a floor that anchors the whole interior.
Scale, without the busyness
This Vale Road home has generous, open rooms and a lot of natural light coming through sheer curtains. A narrow board in a pale tone would have chopped that up into stripes and made the space feel smaller than it is.
The brief was for a floor with presence: something dark enough to anchor the interior and wide enough to keep the eye moving across the room rather than counting boards.
Château Montauk, extra-wide and rustic
Oak Montauk is an engineered European oak floor from our Château collection, engineered overseas to our specification. The species is European oak; the boards are made to our spec offshore.
The Château range is built around an extra-wide plank format, which is the whole point of it. Wide boards create a sense of scale and openness, and they suit open-plan layouts where a floor has to travel a long way without getting fussy.
The colour comes from a treatment that reacts with the oak’s own tannin rather than a paint sitting on top, giving the rich, deep taupe-brown you see here. It is a rustic grade, so expect medium to large knots, grain movement and real colour variation. That character is intentional. The surface is a matt lacquer, which keeps the timber looking like timber and is straightforward to live with.
One deep tone, right through
Run through the living areas, the floor gives the interior a base that everything else sits on. The sheers stay soft, the furniture stays light, and the floor holds the room down.
Photography: Mark Scowen Photography.
Order a Montauk sample
A rustic grade reads very differently on a big floor than on a screen. Start with a board.
See the Château collection
Extra-wide European oak boards, rustic grade, in a range of tones.
What a floor costs
Straight answers on what timber flooring runs to in New Zealand, and what moves the number.
After an extra-wide oak floor?
Tell us the room and the tone you have in mind. We will send samples and talk through what the wide format needs from your subfloor.
