Wood Floor Blog

Although an oak floor can really make a different to your home’s interior and really open up the room, have you ever thought about going a little further and opting for an exotic engineered wood floor? At first, you might think why bother with the extra expense,but the recent introduction of the Real Oak Floors exotic floor collection just shows that you can style your home with a whole new look for as much as any other type of wood species.

Engineered Iroko Flooring

If you want a wood that varies in its tone that delivers a unique yet subtle colour pattern across your floor then Iroko is a fantastic choice. The fact that it is very durable makes it very suitable for a wood floor where there is large amounts of floor traffic or in places where pets or children may traverse the floor regularly. In large expansive areas, the floor is simply breathtaking, hints of toffee-coloured tones will bring out white furniture with elegance.

Engineered Teak Flooring

More stable than Iroko, wooden Teak flooring is a consistently-toned wood that has slightly darker grains giving it a character all of its own. Where oak will deliver a smooth, even tone to your floor, woods such as teak will liven up any minmalistic setting or work very well in a kitchen where you may have a teak kitchen worktop to complement the wood floor.

Engineered Doussie Flooring

Engineered wood boards like Doussie and Sapele give off a distinctive red colour and rate as a fairly hard wood on the Janka Hardness Scale (Doussie: 1810; Sapele: 1510). These two wood are much harder than oak flooring which may make a difference where floor traffic (including high heels!) is concerned.

In fact, you may need to take the hardness of the wood into consideration more if you opt for engineered wood flooring. This type of flooring is generally much thinner than solid wood flooring, although the exotic engineered wood flooring range at Real Oak Floors is 21mm thick, an extremely high quality board that will withstand a lot of use.