Raw Spotted Gum is the cooler, more muted take on the species: the greys and soft browns brought forward and the honey tones pulled back, giving something closer to weathered or limed timber than freshly finished. It suits contemporary interiors...

Pacific Blackbutt captures the pale golden warmth of Australian blackbutt with the fine, even grain that makes the species so easy to live with. It is the most neutral timber look in the Grande range and the safest choice when...

Northern Spotted Gum is the warmer of Grande's two spotted gum designs: a richer, more golden interpretation with pronounced grain movement, closer to how the timber looks freshly oiled than weathered. Grande is Eco Flooring Systems' 7.5mm SPC hybrid: a...

Capri is the warm blonde in the Grande range: a light honeyed oak with soft flowing grain and a gentle golden cast, bright without tipping into yellow. It is the most straightforwardly likeable board here, and the easiest to live...

Grande Cream is softer and greyer than the name suggests: a pale putty beige with a faint cool cast and almost no grain contrast, closer to a limed or chalk-washed board than a warm cream. It is the quietest floor...

Tawny Oak is not tawny. The name suggests a warm orange-brown, but this is the darkest board in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range and it is a smoky grey-brown: cool rather than warm, with strong dark striation running the length...

Spotted Gum in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range is a rich golden-amber with strong grain movement: a warm, confident reading of the species, which in reality runs honey through amber to mid brown with considerable plank-to-plank variation. It is the...

Nordic Oak is the palest board in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range: a whitewashed grey-white with very faint grain, closer to limed or bleached oak than to any natural timber tone. It is the floor to choose when you want...

Mystic Oak is the grey of the Preference Floors Oakleaf range: a mid cool grey with just enough brown underneath to stop it reading blue, and a weathered grain that gives the surface something to do. It is the board...

Maritime is the quietest board in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range: a soft pale warm greige with very low grain contrast and almost no tonal shift between planks. It is the one to choose when the floor should recede entirely...

Ivory is not the near-white the name suggests. It is a light warm greige-tan with visible knots and honest grain movement: a soft, natural pale board rather than a bleached one. That is worth saying plainly, because customers reading "Ivory"...

Classic Oak is exactly what it says: a light golden-tan oak with clean, even grain and no stain pulling it grey or red. It is the most conventional colour in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range and, for a lot of...

Blackbutt in the Preference Floors Oakleaf range is a rich golden-amber, noticeably more saturated than the species actually lays. Real Australian blackbutt is a paler gold with a soft olive cast; this is a warmer, more golden interpretation of it....

Aspen is the neutral of the Preference Floors Oakleaf range: a light warm greige-tan with soft grain movement and moderate variation from plank to plank. It sits almost exactly between the warm golden colours and the cool greys here, which...

Spotted Gum in the 7mm range is a mid honey-brown with the wavy fiddleback figure and black gum vein marks that make the species recognisable, and a clear spread between honey and deeper brown planks. Of the six 7mm colours,...

Siena is the warmest board in the 7mm range, a mid warm terracotta-tan with an apricot cast and smooth, even grain. The name is apt: it sits close to the burnt-sienna end of the timber palette, warmer and redder than...

Paris is a pale cool grey-white oak with soft grain, the smoother of the two whitewashed boards in the 7mm range. Barcelona has heavier white striation and reads a shade colder; Paris is quieter and a touch warmer, closer to...

Set the name aside. Ocean Breeze is a mid warm grey-brown, a smooth taupe with soft grain and low contrast, and there is nothing blue or coastal about it. Bass Timber lists the same board as Ossa. If a pale...