
Residential renovation
Bringing a Cottage Back, Board by Board
An established cottage refreshed from the floor up: the original boards sanded back and blackbutt-toned hybrid planks laid through the kitchen, dining and living spaces.
- Material
- Hybrid plank
- Sector
- Residential
- Areas
- Kitchen, dining, living
The starting point
The cottage's original floorboards carried decades of wear, and the kitchen was mid-renovation with cabinetry still going in. The new floor had to go down around the fit-out and sit comfortably with the home's leadlight-and-timber character.


What went down
The old boards were machine-sanded back (the clip on our gallery tile shows the process), and blackbutt-toned hybrid planks were laid through the kitchen, dining and living areas, tying the renovated spaces back to the cottage's original joinery.
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