Quiet is a very pale cool cream grey with minimal grain, the softest board in the 14mm range. The name is accurate for once.On the wide 2025 x 244mm plank this is about as calm as a floor gets, which...

Moon is a cool mid grey with strong dark grain and open knots, the most contrasty board in the 14mm range. There is a faint blue note in the grey.High contrast grey is a decisive floor. It works in contemporary...

Forest is a mid brown with a distinct olive green cast, darker than most of the 14mm range. The green is unmistakable next to a neutral brown board, and it is the reason to choose it.Olive-toned floors sit naturally with...

Elegant is a light warm greige beige with fine, even grain and little contrast. It is the plainest of the 14mm boards and the most neutral.On the wide 2025 x 244mm plank, a quiet decor like this reads as a...

Dune is a light warm sandy blonde with grey running underneath it and visible knots. Plank-to-plank variation is wide, with some boards distinctly paler than others. The name is fair.Pale sandy floors suit coastal and Hamptons interiors and sit well...

Ignore the name on this one. Beach is the darkest board in the Aquastop range, a deep reddish brown with heavy linear striation running the length of the plank. There is nothing pale or sandy about it.Dark floors with strong...

Zermatt is a mid warm greige brown with a pinkish undertone and a rustic, lightly worn grain. It is warmer than Artisan Oak Beige and greyer than Oak Adaja, sitting between the two.The pink in it is subtle but real....

Urban Oak Natural is a light warm honey blonde, smooth and even, with the least grain contrast of the 12mm boards. It is a quiet floor rather than a feature one.Low contrast pale oak is what most new-build interiors are...

The 12mm version of the Spotted Gum decor, a mid warm brown with a grey overlay and wide variation between planks, some noticeably redder than others. It is a looser interpretation of the species than the name implies.Note the 12mm...

Bright is the palest board Aquastop makes, a near white limed oak with the faintest cream warmth and very soft grain. On screen it can look flat; in a room the grain reads more clearly than the photograph suggests.A floor...

The same decor as the 8mm Blackbutt on a heavier board. It is a mid grey-brown with a mauve cast, noticeably cooler and greyer than the Australian species it is named for, with soft grain movement and low contrast between...

Artisan Oak Beige is a mid greige brown, slightly on the cool side of neutral, with clear grain and a gently worn surface. Beige undersells it: there is more grey in this board than the name suggests.Mid greige is the...

Oak Adaja is a warm golden tan oak, clean and fine grained, with very little plank-to-plank variation. It is the most straightforwardly natural looking board in the 12mm range.This is the safe choice of the group and there is nothing...

Like the Blackbutt decor, this one carries a species name the board does not quite live up to. Aquastop Spotted Gum is a mid warm brown with a grey overlay and noticeable plank-to-plank variation, some boards redder than others. Real...

Natural Oak Grey is a cool mid grey with silvery whitewashed grain running through it. The contrast between the grey ground and the pale grain is the strongest in the 8mm range, so the board reads as textured driftwood rather...

Dublin is a mid to dark warm reddish brown with pronounced knots and dark grain lines running the length of the board. It is the most rustic decor in the 8mm range and the warmest.Red-brown floors were out of favour...

A word of warning on the name. Aquastop Blackbutt is a mid grey-brown with a clear mauve cast, cooler and greyer than the Australian species it is named after. If you are matching to real blackbutt timber already in the...

Zermatt is a light warm honey-beige: a soft golden oak with gentle, even grain and none of the knotting or rustic texture found elsewhere in the Aquastop range. It is the gentlest of the warm boards here, and the easiest...

Strasbourg is a pale warm greige, exceptionally smooth, with minimal grain contrast and a soft neutral cast that sits almost exactly between warm and cool. It is the most neutral board in the entire Aquastop range, and that is its...

Snow is one of the two palest boards in the Aquastop range: a very light cool grey-white with soft, low-contrast grain and a faint warmth that keeps it from feeling clinical. Pale floors earn their place by what they do...

Rock is a pale silvery grey: clean, cool and finely grained, the most straightforwardly contemporary board in the Aquastop range. Cool greys are the easiest colour to furnish around, because almost nothing clashes with a neutral silver-grey. It is the...

Lugano is a pale warm sandy beige: clean, fine-grained and quiet, with none of the knots or rustic character that mark the busier boards in the Aquastop range. It is the warm counterpart to Natural Oak Grey. Where that board...

Helsinki is a mid olive-grey oak: a smooth, flowing grain with a faint green cast that lifts it out of the usual grey-brown territory and gives it a distinctly Nordic character. That green undertone is the whole point of it....