Weathered Oak is not the rough silvered grey most people picture from the name. It is a muted pale greige with a soft grey-green cast running under it: the smoothest, calmest and most neutral of the four Godfrey Hirst Corsica...

Coastal Oak is a pale sandy cream with a warm cast and, more than any other colour in the Godfrey Hirst Corsica Chevron range, plenty of visible character: open knots, filled surface checks and clear grain movement from board to...

Natural Oak Brush is the untinted one: a warm golden honey that is simply what French Oak looks like with a clear lacquer over it and no stain pulling it grey or brown. It is the warmest of the four...

Coffee Oak is cooler than the name suggests. It is a smoked grey-brown rather than a warm coffee, heavily brushed, with strong open grain and dark knots that carry right through the board. It is the darkest and most dramatic...

Tassie Oak is not an oak at all. It is the trade name for a group of Australian eucalypts, and that is what gives this floor its character: a pale straw-to-blonde base with soft pink and light brown tones running...

Genuine Australian spotted gum, not a print of it. The Godfrey Hirst Pioneer range is faced with real Australian species timber veneer, and spotted gum is the species that most rewards being real. It runs honey through amber to mid...

This is real Australian blackbutt, not an oak print with an Australian name on it. The Godfrey Hirst Pioneer range is faced with genuine Australian species timber veneer, so what you get is the actual thing: a pale golden board...

This is real Australian blackbutt. The Godfrey Hirst Pioneer range is faced with genuine Australian species timber veneer, not an oak print wearing an Australian name. Blackbutt gives you a pale golden board with a soft olive cast and low,...

Spotted gum is the most variegated timber Australia produces, and on a brushed board you get the full effect: honey through amber to mid brown, changing markedly from plank to plank, with dark streaking driven through the grain. This is...

White Sands is a light greige oak with a wire-brushed surface, pale and cool-leaning, with the brushing raising the grain so the floor has texture you can feel as well as see. The brushed finish is what separates it from...

Vanilla is a soft pale greige-beige: a gently warmed neutral with smooth, even grain and low contrast, sitting almost exactly between the warm blondes and the cool greys in the Prestige Oak range. That middle position is what makes it...

Tan is a light-to-mid golden oak with scattered knots, warmer and a shade deeper than Straw, with the same natural character but a little more colour in it. It sits in the most useful part of the range. Light enough...

Straw is a pale natural oak with open knots, light, warm and unstained, closer to raw timber than to anything finished, with the grain and natural marks left clearly visible. It is the most honest-looking board in the Prestige Oak...

Storm is a mid grey-brown with a cool, even cast: less variation than Castle Grey, less depth than Iron Grey, and the most restrained of the greyed boards in the Prestige Oak range. Restraint is its value. Where the heavily...

Parana is a light warm greige-tan with open knots and visible character: a pale board that has not been sanitised, where the natural marks of the timber are left on show. That combination is more useful than it sounds. Pale...

Marble is the palest board in the Prestige Oak range: a very light white-grey with the faintest warm cast and grain so soft it barely registers from standing height. A floor this pale is a design decision rather than a...

Limewash is a warm golden oak with white pulled through the grain: the traditional limed finish, where pale pigment sits in the open pores and leaves the surface reading both warm and softened at once. Liming is an old technique...

Latte is a warm mid golden-brown: a tobacco-toned oak with even grain and a settled, unfussy character. It is the middle of the warm range: deeper than Tan, lighter than Dark Brown, and without the olive cast of Chestnut. Mid...