Sparrow occupies the greige middle ground that most colour charts fail to describe honestly: a light-to-mid taupe oak, warm enough to avoid feeling cold but clearly greyed compared with Sand, with a soft even figure running through it. Bella is...

Sand is the middle of the road in the best sense: a light warm beige oak with an even, quiet grain and just enough golden warmth to stop it reading as grey. It sits between Bella and Capri: warmer and...

Raven is the darkest board in Grande 9.0 and makes no apology for it: a near-black charcoal brown with cool grey grain surfacing through the top, closer to a stained timber than a natural one. Hawthorn is its nearest neighbour...

Think of Pacific Blackbutt as the daylight version of an Australian hardwood floor: a light wheat-blonde board with soft golden warmth and gentle, restrained variation rather than dramatic banding. It is a clear step lighter than Northern Spotted Gum and...

Northern Spotted Gum does what the name promises: a warm caramel-to-tan board with the uneven, banded character of Australian spotted gum, some planks noticeably darker than others across a laid floor. Against Ghost Gum it is lighter and more golden;...

Hawthorn is the smoky one: a deep greige-brown with a distinct olive undertone, muted rather than rich, and far more grey in the mix than the name might lead you to expect. It sits between Sparrow and Raven in depth,...

Despite a name that suggests something pale, Ghost Gum is one of the more characterful mid-browns in Grande 9.0: a warm eucalypt-toned board with genuine plank-to-plank variation, fine dark grain lines and occasional redder boards running through the mix. It...

At the pale end of Grande 9.0, Chalk is as close to white as a timber-look floor gets before it stops reading as timber at all: a whitewashed oak with fine grey grain drawn over an almost bone-white ground. It...

Capri is the board people point at when they say they want timber to look like timber: a honeyed mid-blonde oak with long, flowing grain and a golden cast that stays the right side of yellow. Set beside Sand it...

Strip most of the warmth out of a pale oak and you land somewhere close to Bella: a light grey-beige board with a soft, washed-back grain and very little contrast between the ground and the figure. Next to Chalk it...