Parnell high-stud show home timber flooring
This Parnell show home pairs a near-double-height stud with warm, wide-plank timber. Vienna Woods supplied Château Café Au Lait, a mid-tone engineered European oak, run in long wide boards to soften a big volume and hold its own beneath a Max Gimblett artwork. Here is how the floor works in the space.
A tall volume that needed warming up
The architecture does the talking here: a high stud, generous glazing and a gallery wall built around a Max Gimblett piece. A cold or busy floor would have fought all of it. Interior designer Sarah Foote wanted a floor that read calm and warm, and carried the scale without asking for attention.
Château Café Au Lait, wide and long
We specified a warm mid-tone from the Château Collection, Café Au Lait. It is European oak, engineered overseas to Vienna Woods’ specification, so the wear layer is real oak over an engineered core. Run in long wide boards, it stretches the eye across the room and keeps the grain quiet under all that daylight.
Warmth without the fuss
In a room this tall, the floor is the ground everything else sits on. The mid-tone oak softens the volume, adds character, and lets the art and joinery lead. Wide long boards also mean fewer joins across the open plan, so the eye runs uninterrupted from wall to wall.
Board length matters as the ceiling climbs
Short boards chop up a tall room. The long wide format here keeps the floor reading as one calm plane, which is exactly what a high-stud space wants underfoot. Interior design by Sarah Foote Design, installed by Finesse Floors, photographed by Mark Scowen.
Order free samples
See Café Au Lait and the wider Château range in your own light before you commit.
The Château Collection
Warm, mid-tone European oak, engineered overseas to our specification for New Zealand homes.
What it costs
Real per-square-metre guidance so you can budget the floor before you spec it.
Want this floor in your project?
Order Café Au Lait as a free sample, or send us your plans for a quote. We will help you get the format and colour right for the room.
