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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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;...

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...

Almond is a soft pale greige-taupe with gentle grain and low contrast between boards, warm enough to feel inviting, neutral enough that it will not argue with a kitchen you have not chosen yet. It is the most broadly useful...

Carbon is the darkest board in the Lifestyle Collection: a near-black charcoal-brown with restrained grain and very little variation between planks. It is the most dramatic floor in the range and the least forgiving: dust, lint and footprints show on...

Blackbutt in the Lifestyle Collection is a warm golden-tan with clear, open grain: a fuller reading of the species than the pale golden-with-olive tone real blackbutt lays at, so worth comparing if you are matching existing boards. On its own...

Husky Grey is the cool pale of the Lifestyle Collection: a soft grey-greige with a genuine cool cast, where Almond and Blissful sit warm. That makes it the one to choose for a contemporary scheme with white walls, black tapware...

Blissful is the calmest board in the Lifestyle Collection: a pale warm greige-beige with very low grain contrast and almost no tonal shift between planks. It is a shade lighter and a touch warmer than Almond, and it is the...

Oatmeal is the palest board in the Lifestyle Collection: a near-white cream carrying a faint green-grey cast that stops it reading as stark or clinical. Against white walls it recedes and lets furniture do the talking; against warm timber joinery...

Travertine is the quietest board in the Lifestyle Collection: a pale cream-beige with very little grain movement, closer to a stone read than a timber one. That is unusual in a hybrid range, where the default is to print as...

Spotted Gum is the warmest and most strongly figured board in the Lifestyle Collection: a rich golden-amber with pronounced grain movement across the face. It is the closest thing in the range to a traditional Australian hardwood floor, and it...