Guide for a smooth selection of Wooden Flooring
Chevron floor in light oak 102 Sandhammaren
Our range gives you the opportunity to design and customise your wooden flooring. You can combine a wide variety of wood species, formats, dimensions, and surface treatments to create your own unique atmosphere. When choosing wooden flooring, there are no right or wrong choices, but through this guide we aim to simplify your decision with straightforward tips and recommendations based on many years of experience working closely with architects and designers.
Choose format and pattern
Our range gives you the opportunity to choose between chevron, plank flooring, and herringbone flooring. Start with the existing architecture of the space and the atmosphere you want to create. Chevron and herringbone generally create a classic design, while plank flooring offers a cleaner and more minimalist expression. However, this is certainly not always the case – further down in the guide, we explain more about how the dimensions of the different flooring types can change both the appearance and the overall feel.
Planks floors in light oak 102 Sandhammaren
Choose dimensions
We offer approximately 10–15 different dimensions for each flooring type. “Dimension” refers to the length and width of each strip/plank. For chevron and herringbone, classic dimensions are between 70–90 mm in width and between 400–700 mm in length—the larger the dimensions, the more modern and minimalist the floor will appear.
When it comes to plank flooring, mass-produced wooden floors typically have widths up to around 190 mm and fixed lengths up to around 2200 mm. You could say our range begins where mass-produced flooring ends, as our standard widths start from 200 mm and lengths from 1.8 metres and up. When guiding customers in choosing plank dimensions, we usually say that length takes priority over width, as length creates the exclusive and seamless feel, while width determines the expression (modern/minimalist or classic).
As a general rule, the larger the dimensions, the more expensive the wooden floor will be.
Chevron floor in dimension 200 x 1000 mm
Plank floorings in width 400 mm and lengths 2 – 5 meters
Wood species
Our wooden floors are available in a wide range of wood species such as oak, ash, pine, Douglas fir, and walnut. These different species have distinct characteristics and vary in colour and texture. Oak, ash, and walnut are hard and durable woods, while pine and Douglas fir are softer and more sensitive species.
If you are looking for a dark wooden floor, oak, walnut, and pine are beautiful options in darker tones. If, on the other hand, you prefer a light wooden floor, oak, ash, pine, and Douglas fir are species that look particularly beautiful in lighter shades.
Ash floors
Oak floors
Choose surface finish
Choosing the colour is, according to our customers, the most difficult challenge to solve. What suits their needs? Light, dark, not too yellow—the list of considerations before selecting a colour can be long. To simplify the process, we offer a range of surface treatments developed in collaboration with well-known architects and designers, based on many years of experience in creating beautiful and timeless colours.
Our range offers a wide spectrum from the lightest to the darkest shades, and if none of these fit your project, we can help you customise a new colour. Our collection consists of finishes in hardwax oil and matt lacquer—both options provide strong protection for many years.
If you want to achieve an untreated look for your wooden floor, we recommend our colour 102 Sandhammaren, which is a matt lacquer. If, on the other hand, you prefer a white- or dark-pigmented floor, or a floor with a bit more depth and warmth, we recommend one of our hardwax oil finishes. Here you can find our colour collection.
Both plank flooring, chevron, and herringbone parquet can be delivered either untreated or pre-finished from our production. If you are unsure about your colour choice, we usually recommend that the flooring installer creates sample finishes on offcuts of the delivered floor in your actual environment, so you as a customer can see how the colour appears in your real setting before making the final decision.
