Engineered Flooring

  Antique looking wood flooring is a really popular choice for homeowners with all different sorts of interiors, for what we believe to be really great reasons. Clearly, antique style wood flooring looks great in a room furnished with a collection of old, or genuinely antique furniture. But funnily enough, antique looking real wood flooring can also look stunning with...

  No matter whether you’re an interior designer, a builder, a joiner, an architect or a general tradesman, Wood and Beyond can help take your business to a whole new level. Everybody knows that no matter how much planning, precision and energy you put into the hidden part of a project, it’s the end look that gets most attention. That...

  Not everyone wants a huge house with big rooms, but most people have at least one room in their home that drives them mad because it’s too small or too narrow. No matter what you try, you can’t make that room seem bigger or wider! Although you will never be able to change the actual dimensions of the room...

  As any regular reader of this blog will know, when wood is lumbered, it is graded into one of four different grades: prime, select, natural and rustic. Going from the start of the list to the end, the number and size of knots in the wood and the colour variation as well as the sap (which you generally can’t...

  White oak flooring is a great way to lighten up a room and give it a whole new lease of life. A style of flooring that’s commonly associated with beach huts and desert islands, don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a style that’s restricted to the summer months. White oak flooring can look great even in alpine chalets, and...

  Timber engineered flooring is a great all-round interior solution. Offering greater stability and particularity than most other floors, it’s easy to see why more and more people are choosing this option. A relatively recently flooring solution, timber engineered flooring is so versatile, that it can literally be used in any interior setting as well as in every room in...

  Not so very long ago, dark hardwood flooring has become the preferred choice of young, trendy designer types looking to re-floor their lofts with a view to furnishing them with a heady mix of stainless steel and leather. Thankfully, more and more people are realising that dark hardwood flooring can add real charm and style, no matter what sort...

When you’re shopping for a new timber floor, you’ll soon realise that there’s quite a bit of jargon you need to get familiar with. The Wood and Beyond blog is a great place to start if you want to get familiar with all the terms. Don’t get us wrong, it’s not that the jargon’s complicated or difficult to understand, it’s...

Oak is a stunning wood, there’s no doubt about that. Used as a flooring material for centuries, when you choose the right oak floor it could last a lifetime (and possibly a whole lot more). Solid or engineered? The great thing about oak floorboards today is that they are now even more versatile than they were just 20 or 30...

Reconditioned wood flooring is one of the hottest trends right now and it’s easy to see why. Anything that looks as if it has a load of history and heritage is in really high demand. No matter whether it’s aged leather goods, denims or flooring - reconditioned styling is BIG NEWS. Reconditioned wood flooring in its purest sense is wood...

Old school floors are really popular and in high demand. Depending on your age, you’ll recall that old school gyms and halls had stunning wood floors that were painstakingly cared for by janitors throughout the country. Those same floors are now highly sought after by people seeking some history for their homes. Recovered from schools and church halls, these old...

Wood floor panels are a really popular interior choice for owners of small houses, big houses, new houses, old houses and apartments of all styles. A really versatile, hard-wearing and affordable flooring solution, wood isn’t just great to look at, it’s easy to maintain too. But one thing many people struggle with is the big choice between solid and engineered...