Timber Styles
KEMPAS
A course grained, Kempas is very hard, pink to reddish colour wood, with medium graining grown in Malaysia and Indonesia. The product undergoes a medium degree of muting of the colour range over time and a slight darkening to a medium reddish colour.
CYPRESS
From the hilly country of New South Wales and Queensland. Australian Cypress is a unique timber with a colour and characteristic unlike all others. Cypress floors offer a characteristic gold colour with highlights from pale creams to yellows and features decoractive knots.
BLUE GUM
Also know as Sydney Blue Gum is found naturally from New South Wales to Queensland. Blum Gum has a straight grain that is sometimes interlocked, and shown here is the 3 strip configuration. It has a distinctive colour range from dark, rich pink through to brown.
SPOTTED GUM
The word "spotted" refers to the soft mottled colour caused by weathering of the outer tree as it sheds elliptical strips of bark. Colour varies from pale greybrowns and soft creams to rich chocolate brown. A very tough timber, its wavy grain produces an attractive fiddleback effect.
MERBAU
Merbau is grown in South East Asia with reddish / orange course graining, and exhibits yellow "flecking" in the pores. Products undergo a large degree of colour change, with muting of the colour variation and darkening over time to deeper orangey brown colour.
JARRAH
A large hardwood grown in South East Western Australia, offering a wide range of colour from a light pink to deep burgundy-red with darker graining. Jarrah undergoes a medium degree of colour change over time by muting to a medium to dark burgungy-red as it ages.
TASMANIAN OAK
The name Tasmanian Oak is used to describe three species of Eucalypt commonly found in Tasmania. Together they produce a blend of beautiful colouring from pale cream to pin and red-brown.
SYDNEY BLUE GUM
A well known timber found on the east coast of Australia. This product is a 1 strip configuration and has a straight grain with a distinct colour range from dark, rich pink through to brown.
WENGE STAIN
Wenge is a uniform dark chocolate brown colour for those desiring a bold dark look. Wenge is one of the world’s premier dark species grown in Central Africa and the stain is generally over an Oak base.
BAMBOO
Bamboo flooring is uniquely different to traditional hardwood flooring with unsurpassed elegant style, durability & exceptional beauty. A Janka rating measures the force required to dent timber, the Moso Strand Woven Bamboo is the second hardest flooring in the world.