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Timber Flooring Styles, Finishes & Textures

A floor is decided by three things before colour is ever chosen: the format of the boards, the texture of the surface, and the finish over the timber. This is the way in to all three — nine choices, each with its own page.

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Styles

Format is the floor’s geometry — how wide the boards are and how they are laid. It sets the scale and the rhythm of a room before colour is even considered.

Wide plank European oak flooring in a living room with a sea view, Saint Heliers

Wide plank flooring

Wider boards, fewer joins — the floor reads as one continuous surface.

Bordeaux herringbone oak flooring in an open plan living and dining room, Westmere

Herringbone & parquet patterns

Classic European patterns that bring structure and rhythm to a room.

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Textures

Texture is what the surface does with light and what it feels like underfoot — from a lightly brushed grain through to a heavily worked, hand-finished face.

Patina Amber textured engineered oak flooring, close up of the brushed grain

Textured & brushed oak

Brushed and worked so the grain stands proud — grain you can feel.

Raftwood heavily textured hand-worked oak flooring

Raftwood

Oak at its most rustic: heavily worked, with open splits and knots filled by hand.

Aged and reclaimed oak flooring in a private residence

Aged & distressed timber

Genuinely reclaimed oak, and new oak worked to read as time-worn. We carry both.

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Finishes

The finish is what sits on — or in — the timber, and it decides the sheen. Oil cures inside the grain; lacquer forms a clear film across it.

Close up of natural oiled European oak flooring

Oiled finish

Oil worked into the grain and cured inside it, rather than a film sitting on top.

Lacquered engineered oak flooring in a Westmere living room, Auckland

Lacquered finish

A fine clear coat across the boards, with the grain still visible underneath.

Ultra matt raw effect oak flooring in a Northcote interior by Spatial Studios

Ultra matt & raw effect

Almost no sheen — the look of bare, freshly sanded timber.

Vienna Woods Prime unfinished 190mm European oak boards

Unfinished oak

Supplied raw — sanded and finished on site, to your choice.

Not sure which finish suits your project?

Grain and sheen read differently in your own light, so samples are the honest way to choose. If you would rather talk it through, we are happy to walk you round the options.

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