Choice Timber – Flooring

Just like choosing to paint your house opens up a myriad of colour options that can determine the mood, functionality and aesthetics of the space being painted, your choice of flooring has a significant impact on the design, look and potential use of the area it serves.

Some timber floors brighten a space, while others make it more cosy. Certain timber grains offer a classic look, while others integrate with the most contemporary designs. So whatever aesthetic or functional ends you are trying to achieve with your building or renovation, a hardwood floor can accommodate.

The benefits of solid timber hardwood floors are many. They are timeless, surviving the fickle shifts of fashion to ensure your property doesn’t date like last season’s t-shirt. Hardwood timber floors are also extremely durable, so much so that you’ll still be enjoying them when last season’s t-shirt comes back in to fashion in twenty or thirty years. 

And even after years of wear, a simple re-sand and re-coat can bring your hardwood floor or stairs back to pristine condition. But that’s not to say that timber is indestructible or does not require careful thought in to the exact match of timber to the job at hand.

Different timbers are suited to different purposes. Some, like Red Gum, Spotted Gum, Ironbark and Jarrah are ideal for  internal flooring, outdoor stairs or decking, while others are ideally suited to interior stairs. Some timbers excel when used structurally, while others don’t perform so well as flooring. Given these variations, specialist knowledge is crucial when selecting certain species for certain jobs.

Hardwood timber floors vary greatly in colour, density and grain, and so it is often not until you actually walk on a particular timber floor and see it as it will look in your home that you can begin to determine if its specific characteristics match your ideal.

So to help you make informed decisions about your choice of timber, we invite you to visit our award-winning showroom where over 40 large timber samples are laid on the floor, as they would be in your own home. We can also show examples of various installation methods and flooring finishes.

Just like you wouldn’t buy a car from a picture or from a small sample, it is imperative that the significant financial and aesthetic decision to buy hardwood timber flooring is not made based on photographs or small samples. Extrapolating from samples can lead to disappointment if the finished result is different to initial perceptions, so we highly recommend pre-visualising your floor in our showroom.

Choice Timber stock, and have at our disposal, all the timber you need for any home building or renovation. Our helpful staff can assist you in making informed decisions about which flooring or staircase timber is right for the job at hand.