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.
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.
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.
Textured & brushed oak
Brushed and worked so the grain stands proud. Grain you can feel.
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Raftwood
Oak at its most rustic: heavily worked, with open splits and knots filled by hand.
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Aged & distressed timber
Genuinely reclaimed oak, and new oak worked to read as time-worn. We carry both.
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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.
Oiled finish
Oil worked into the grain and cured inside it, rather than a film sitting on top.
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Lacquered finish
A fine clear coat across the boards, with the grain still visible underneath.
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Ultra matt & raw effect
Almost no sheen, the look of bare, freshly sanded timber.
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Unfinished oak
Supplied raw, sanded and finished on site, to your choice.
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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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