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...

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...

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...

Hydrocore Blackbutt pairs the pale golden tone of Australian blackbutt with a 72 hour waterproof rating: the specification that makes laminate viable in rooms it would normally be kept out of. Spills can sit for three days without swelling the...

Brandy is a mid honey oak: warm, golden and even, with fine straight grain and very little colour variation from board to board. Despite the name it is not a dark floor; it sits in the middle of the Hydrocore...

Cafe Noir is the darkest board in the Hydrocore range: a deep chocolate brown with strong, dramatic grain running through it and enough contrast between the light and dark passages that the floor reads as timber rather than a flat...

Firewood is worth looking at before you judge it by the name. It is not a warm red-brown. It is a pale, cool greige, a soft washed grey-beige with low contrast and fine grain, and it is one of the...

Fortune Cookie is a light warm sandy blonde: a soft biscuit-toned oak with fine, straight, even grain and very little variation between boards. It is the calmest of the warm boards in the Hydrocore range, where Ginger Ale is more...

Ginger Ale is a warm golden oak with genuine character, flowing cathedral grain, visible knots and enough variation between boards that the floor has movement across a whole room rather than reading as one printed tone. That grain is doing...

Golden Fog is a pale, misty grey oak with only the faintest warm undertone holding it back from a true cool grey. The name is more about that warmth than any actual gold. It reads as limed or softly weathered...

Hydrocore Spotted Gum gives you Australia's most popular timber look with a 72 hour waterproof rating: three days for a spill to be found and cleaned up without damage. That is the specification that makes laminate genuinely usable in kitchens,...

This is Alpine Mist on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board: the same light warm blonde-beige oak as the 12mm version, with the same soft grain movement and gentle sandy cast. The decor is identical; what changes is the board...

Bedrock on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board: the same rich mid-dark warm brown as the 12mm version, with real depth in the grain and strong tonal movement from plank to plank. The decor is identical; the difference is the...

Blackbutt on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board: the same light warm golden-tan with a soft, even grain as the 12mm version, and the same restrained reading of the species that makes it more convincing than the heavily saturated golden-ambers...

Delta Sand on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board. As on the 12mm, the name misleads: this is a pale cool grey-white with a faint lilac cast, not the warm sandy tone it suggests. It is one of the coolest...

Spotted Gum on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board: the same mid warm brown with a reddish cast and strong striping through the grain as the 12mm version. It is a fair reading of the species, which runs honey through...

Wolf Grey on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board. As on the 12mm, it is warmer than the name implies: a mid greige-taupe with a clear brown undertone and visible grain, rather than the cool grey most people picture. That...

Natural on the 8mm Oakleaf HD Plus board: the same light warm tan-beige oak with open knots and honest grain movement as the 12mm version. It is the most characterful of the pale colours in the range, and the knots...