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...

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....

Wolf Grey is warmer than the name suggests. It is a mid greige-taupe with a clear brown undertone and visible grain, not the cool grey most people picture when they read "grey" on a flooring page. That matters, because greige...

Spotted Gum here is a mid warm brown with a reddish cast and strong striping through the grain: a fair reading of the species, which runs honey through amber to mid brown with far more plank-to-plank variation than oak. It...

Silk Grey is the true grey of the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a mid cool grey with clear striation running the length of the board and no warmth pulling it towards beige. If you want a floor that...

Sierra Oak is the warmest of the pale boards in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a light blonde-tan with a smooth, even grain and very little tonal shift between planks. Set beside Alpine Mist it carries a touch...

Natural is exactly what the name promises: a light warm tan-beige oak with open knots and honest grain movement, the look of an untinted board with a clear coat over it. It is the most characterful of the pale colours...

Hickory is the straightforward warm mid-tone in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a brown-tan with genuine warmth and an even, unfussy grain that does not compete with anything else in the room. It is the colour people land...

Delta Sand is not the warm sandy tone the name implies. It is a pale cool grey-white with a faint lilac cast: among the coolest boards in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range, and a genuinely different proposition to...

Clove is cooler than the name suggests. Rather than the warm spice brown you might picture, it is a muted mid grey-brown: the grey holding the warmth in check and keeping it from going orange in afternoon light. That makes...

Blackbutt in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range is a light warm golden-tan with a soft, even grain: a restrained and fairly convincing take on the species, closer to how Australian blackbutt actually lays than the heavily saturated golden-amber...

Bedrock is the richest board in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a mid-dark warm brown with genuine depth in the grain and a good deal of tonal movement from plank to plank. It is the colour to choose...

Arctic Fox is the palest board in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a near-white cream with only the faintest grain showing through and almost no tonal shift between planks. It is the floor to choose when you want...

Alpine Mist is a light warm blonde-beige oak: a clean, bright board with soft grain movement and a gentle sandy cast, bright enough to open up a room without the coldness of a true white-grey. It is the most broadly...

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...