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...

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...

Iron Grey is a mid-dark smoky grey-brown with strong plank-to-plank variation: some boards reading almost charcoal, others distinctly brown, with a wire-brushed surface that gives the floor texture as well as colour. It is the darkest grey in the Prestige...

Heritage Grey is the most characterful board in the Prestige Oak range, and the name undersells it badly. It is not a grey floor. It is a deliberately mixed board where dark chocolate, golden honey and mid-brown planks sit side...

Grey Mist is a pale, soft grey-beige: a gently greyed oak with low contrast and quiet grain, the lightest of the true greys in the Prestige Oak range. Pale greys are the easiest timber floors to furnish around, because almost...

Espresso is worth looking at properly, because the name sets the wrong expectation. It is not a dark coffee brown. It is a warm mid golden-amber oak, closer to honey than to anything espresso-coloured, with rich flowing grain and real...

Ebony is the darkest board in the Prestige Oak range: a near-black oak with a faint purple-brown undertone and grain still readable through the depth of the stain. This is the most dramatic floor here, and it is genuinely striking...

Dark Brown is a deep chocolate oak: rich and warm, with strong grain running visibly through the depth of colour rather than disappearing into it. Dark timber floors are a commitment worth being clear about. In a room with generous...

Castle Grey is a mid grey-brown with pronounced variation from board to board: some planks lean brown, others distinctly grey, and the wire-brushed surface catches light differently across the floor. That variation is the point. A greyed timber floor with...

Avola Natural is European Oak left to look like itself: a bright golden honey tone with clean flowing grain and no stain pushing it warmer or cooler. It is the most natural-looking board in the Prestige Oak range and the...

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...