Oak Flooring in a Matakana Home
A modern Matakana house with vaulted ceilings, a stone fireplace wall and doors that open to the paddocks. Vienna Woods supplied Distilled Manhattan, an engineered European oak with a warm caramel-brown tone and plenty of grain character.
A warm floor for a lot of white
This Matakana residence is mostly white: white walls, white vaulted ceilings, a pale stone feature wall, and big sliders opening to green. Handsome, but it needed something to stop it feeling clinical.
The floor was the answer. It had to bring warmth and grain into a very light room, and it had to run continuously from the living areas into the bedrooms without the eye tripping on a transition.
Distilled Manhattan, slow-grown Lithuanian oak
Manhattan is part of our Distilled collection: engineered European oak, made in Europe from slow-grown Lithuanian oak. The mill holds a current FSC certificate, which we can supply on request.
The Baltic climate is cold and the oak grows slowly, which gives the timber a tight, fine grain profile with narrow growth rings. The tone here is a warm caramel-brown with rustic open grain and dark feature knots, so there is a lot going on in each board without the floor as a whole getting loud.
Distilled runs five formats: standard, long and wide planks, a 20mm wide plank, and herringbone parquet. The same colour can carry from the living areas through to a hall. Each colour in the collection is named after a classic cocktail, which tells you something about how the range is meant to be used: rooms for a quiet moment or a long dinner.
Grain against white
Run through the living, dining and bedrooms, the floor does the warming. Against the white ceilings and the pale stone, the caramel tone and the open grain are the only texture in the room that is not architectural, which is exactly why it works.
It is a good example of how much warmth a floor can put into a room that has none.
Order a Manhattan sample
Rustic grain and a caramel tone are best judged on your own floor, in your own light.
See the Distilled collection
European oak made in Europe, in planks and herringbone parquet.
Building north of Auckland?
Tell us about the house and the light. We will get samples out to you and talk through formats and lead times.
