Smoke White is a pale warm greige-cream oak with soft grain and a faint pink-beige warmth, with small knots showing through. It is the warm pale of the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range, a step warmer than Abbey Grey and softer...

Royal Grey is a mid warm greige-brown with a taupe cast, visible grain and a scatter of knots. Despite the name it is warmer than it is grey: a mushroom-toned oak that sits between the pale boards and the two...

Rawhide is a light to mid warm greige-tan with open knots and visible grain: a natural, slightly rustic board with more character than Coco Husk and a touch more grey than Cobblestone. It sits in the useful middle of the...

Ocean Mist is a pale cool grey-greige with a faint green cast and soft, even grain. It is the quietest of the pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range, a shade cooler than Abbey Grey and less stark than...

Iceberg is the palest board in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: a very light cool white-greige with the grain softened almost to a limed look and very little contrast between planks. A floor this pale is a decision rather than...

Gunmetal is a mid to dark cool brown-grey with strong variation between boards, some planks a greyed mid brown and others close to charcoal. It is the darker of the two grey-toned boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range and...

Coco Husk is a light warm beige-tan oak with soft grain and a scatter of small knots: muted rather than golden, a quiet sandy neutral that sits between the blondes and the greiges in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range. It...

Cobblestone is a light to mid warm honey oak with visible grain and small knots, a shade deeper and more golden than Buck Natural and with more character in the grain. It is the warmest of the mid-tone boards in...

Buck Natural is a light warm golden blonde oak with clean, flowing grain and few knots: oak left close to its own colour, with a clear honey warmth. It is the natural-oak reference point of the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range,...

Brownstone is the darkest and most dramatic board in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: a deep warm red-brown with strong variation, where chocolate planks sit beside lighter tan ones and the grain runs bold through all of them. It reads...

Bondi Beach is a light warm sandy tan with open knots and visible grain, and a fair amount of movement between boards. It is the most characterful of the warm pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm range: the knots...

Abbey Grey is a pale cool greige oak: soft grain, low contrast and a light grey cast over a beige base, with small knots here and there. It is one of the four pale boards in the Prestige Oak 14/2mm...

Sauvignon is a light warm honey-beige oak with soft grain, low contrast and a gentle golden cast: an easy, even blonde that sits between Pure Natural and Straw in the Prestige Oak range, warmer than the first and smoother than...

Riesling is a pale to mid warm beige-tan with the grain pulled out in white: a brushed, limed look where the pale streaks run the full length of the board and give the surface visible texture. It is the most...

Pure Natural is a light warm blonde-beige oak: clean, soft grain, few knots, and a gentle peach warmth that keeps it from reading as washed out. It is the closest thing in the Prestige Oak range to oak left as...

Grey Wash is a mid grey-brown with a distinct olive cast and wide variation from board to board: some planks lean pale greige, others a smoky olive-brown, and the grain shows clearly through all of them. It is the most...

Colonial Grey is a pale warm greige: a soft beige-grey oak with a faint pink cast, gentle grain and low contrast between boards, with the occasional small knot. On the swatch it reads closer to a warm putty than to...

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...

Hampton Oak is the warmest of the mid-tone boards in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a honey-tan oak with clear grain, open knots and enough tonal movement between planks to carry a large floor without looking repetitive. It...

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...

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...

Windsor is the cool pale in the Preference Floors Oakleaf HD Plus range: a soft greige-taupe with grey running through the grain and low, even contrast between planks. It is the board to choose when the room is already warm...

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...

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...