Arcadia is the most dramatic board in the 8mm Bass Timber range: a very dark charcoal with a distinctly blue-black cast and strong grain running visibly through it. It is closer to weathered ironbark or smoked oak than to anything...

Blackbutt reproduces the pale golden tone of one of Australia's most-specified hardwoods, with a slight olive cast through the grain that gives it a softer, more contemporary reading than a straight honey oak. It is the brightest of the warm...

Cedar Ridge is a pale grey-white weathered board: one of the lightest in the 8mm Bass Timber range, with soft striation and very little colour, closer to driftwood than to any finished timber. Its job is brightness. A floor this...

Conwy is a mid warm brown with open knots and visible character: the most rustic board in the 8mm Bass Timber range, and the warmest. Knotted boards earn their place practically as much as visually. There is enough movement across...

Edenwood is a pale greige-beige, soft, low in contrast and almost exactly balanced between warm and cool, which makes it the most neutral board in the 8mm Bass Timber range. Neutral is the point. A floor with no strong colour...

Forest Haven is a cool weathered grey with pronounced striation running through the grain: the most textural of the grey boards in the 8mm Bass Timber range, and the one that reads most as reclaimed timber. The striation is doing...

Glamis is a pale greige with a faint pink undertone: one of the softest boards in the 8mm Bass Timber range, with gentle grain and almost no contrast across the surface. The trace of pink is what separates it from...

Lunar Glow is a pale silvery grey with white striation pulled through the grain: the coolest and most distinctly limed-looking board in the 8mm Bass Timber range. The white grain is what gives it character. Where a flat pale grey...

Misty Mountain is a pale cool grey-beige: soft and low in contrast, sitting between the warm neutrals and the true greys in the 8mm Bass Timber range. It is the most versatile of the pale boards here for that reason....

Ocean Breeze is a light warm sandy gold: a gentle blonde board with soft grain and a coastal cast, warmer than the greiges in the 8mm Bass Timber range without going as golden as Silk Road. Sandy neutrals are among...

Silk Road is the warmest board in the 8mm Bass Timber range: a light apricot-tan with a peachy cast that sets it clearly apart from the greiges and greys around it. It is worth being direct about that warmth, because...

Spotted Gum carries the olive-gold ground and dark streaking that make the species recognisable: the highest-contrast timber look in the 8mm Bass Timber range, and the one with the most going on across a floor. Australians ask for spotted gum...