Hardwood flooring from Boral Timber has been extensively used in a waterside building project in Queensland’s Noosa Waters, bringing practicality, warmth and colour to the dream family home.
English architect Sarah Waller moved her family across the other side of the world to build their dream home at the exclusive residential estate, The Anchorage on the Sunshine Coast. Designed together with her husband, Paul and two daughters, Tiggy and Tamsin, Sarah’s project brief was to create a stunning family home by the water.
Timber floors were a natural choice for the open plan, contemporary style of the house. Sarah specified 216m² of Boral 19mm solid strip flooring in Australian Beech for both levels of the house.
Boral’s timber flooring was selected as it would bring warmth to the house, soften its appearance and be warm underfoot in addition to the simple maintenance required to keep it looking good.
Sarah selected timber for its practicality and warmth, and specifically selected Australian Beech for its unique colour and variation of hues. She chose a select grade of the flooring timber to avoid dark knots and provide an even colour.
While Australian Beech was installed randomly throughout the house, Sarah used Spotted Gum for the stair treads for its width and hard nature to suit the high traffic area.
Sarah has a growing preference for hardwood flooring in all her architectural projects, preferring to specify timber flooring wherever possible in both personal building projects and commercial projects, because of the warmth and character it brings to her architecture.
The hardwood flooring was installed on plywood over a concrete slab on the ground floor, and on particle board on the first floor.
The floor was installed by Specialist Timber Floor Installations from Buderim, Queensland.
