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Lifewood We create premium timber floors that last a lifetime, incorporating timeless elegance into your home

Perth's Premium Hardwood Flooring Specialists - Est. 2002
Looking for a timber floor that looks just as stunning in 20 years as the day it was installed? Lifewood is Perth's most trusted hardwood flooring company, backed by 24 years of experience and a lifetime warranty on every floor we lay. We specialise in luxurious hardwood floors designed for the Australian lifestyle and climate, and we're the only flooring company in the world using our patented Stabilised Solid technology, meaning your floor won't warp, shrink, or change. Ever.

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Black Walnut looks like nothing else in the range. Underneath, it is built exactly the same way.Same Stabilised Solid co...
21/09/2026

Black Walnut looks like nothing else in the range. Underneath, it is built exactly the same way.

Same Stabilised Solid construction. A cross-laminated hardwood core with the grain running in alternating directions, so the board absorbs seasonal movement rather than passing it up to the surface. On top, a 5mm wear layer of genuine walnut, which is four sands over the life of the floor.

That last part matters more with a dark timber than people realise. A floor you can take back to new in fifteen or twenty years is a very different proposition to one you replace.

Come and hold a cross-section. Easier to understand with one in your hand.

18/09/2026

A floor is repetitive. Stairs are not.

Every tread and riser is measured individually, because no two are ever quite the same. Cut, fitted, checked, then the next one. There is no rhythm to fall into and nowhere to hide a measurement that is a millimetre out.

This is Blackbutt, which is a sensible choice for stairs. At 9.1 on the Janka scale it handles the traffic, and the even grain means the treads read consistently as you climb rather than jumping around in colour.

It is the slowest part of any job and the part that shows most. People run a hand along a nosing without thinking about it. They notice when it is right.

Dark floors need light above them. That is most of the trick.Black Walnut is the deepest timber we sell, and against mar...
16/09/2026

Dark floors need light above them. That is most of the trick.

Black Walnut is the deepest timber we sell, and against marble and pale joinery it does something no mid-tone can. It anchors the room. Everything above it reads brighter by comparison, and the space gains weight without feeling closed in.

Get the balance wrong, and a dark floor shrinks a room. Get it right, and it does the opposite.

14/09/2026

Conventional milling throws most of a log away.

Wide boards can only be cut from certain parts of the timber, so the rest becomes offcut. Mark explains how Stabilised Solid changes that. Because the board is built rather than sawn from a single piece, far more of every log ends up as flooring.

Better use of the tree, and it is part of why a wide board does not have to cost what a wide board traditionally cost.

The most sustainable thing you can do with a hardwood log is waste less of it.

The Australasian Timber Flooring Association awards are judged by people who work in this trade. You cannot enter yourse...
11/09/2026

The Australasian Timber Flooring Association awards are judged by people who work in this trade. You cannot enter yourself, and you cannot pay for one.

Four of them over eleven years. A showroom award in 2014, retailer awards in 2018 and 2025, and one in 2023 for the technology behind Natures Steel.

The 2023 one is the one we are quietly proudest of, because it was for something we built rather than something we sold.

Verifiable at https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01jP7W0.

09/09/2026

Spotted Gum, finished and handed over.

The colour is the whole appeal. Reds, honey, and deep brown run through the one species, so no two boards look the same, and a floor never reads flat.

It is also one of the hardest we supply at 11.0 kN, which is why it ends up in so many family homes. Dogs, kids, chairs dragged across it at dinner. It handles all of that and keeps looking like this.

This is why people fall for Black Walnut. Deep chocolate browns, a fine straight grain, and a satin finish that catches ...
07/09/2026

This is why people fall for Black Walnut. Deep chocolate browns, a fine straight grain, and a satin finish that catches the light rather than bouncing it back at you.

Now the honest part. At 6.7 on the Janka scale it is the softest timber in our range. Softer does not mean fragile, it means a heavy dining chair dragged across it will mark more readily than it would on Spotted Gum. In a bedroom or a study, rarely an issue. In a hallway with a large dog, worth a conversation.

Plenty of people run it right through the house anyway, because they want that colour and they are happy with a floor that shows its history. Perfectly legitimate.

We would rather tell you upfront than have you find out later.

Carpet out, Black Walnut in. But the interesting part is what happened in between.Under the carpet were the original boa...
04/09/2026

Carpet out, Black Walnut in. But the interesting part is what happened in between.

Under the carpet were the original boards, and some of them moved. Every loose or squeaky one gets screwed down before anything else happens, because a subfloor that shifts will eventually show up in the floor you walk on. Acoustic underlay went down after that.

Then the details that take the extra time. The boards run underneath the wardrobe rail rather than stopping at it, so the doors sit over the top and the floor reads as one continuous surface. Same under the kitchen cabinets.

62 square metres and fifteen steps. Most of the work that matters happened before the first board was laid.

Most people choose a species on colour, then find out about hardness later.Worth doing it the other way around, at least...
02/09/2026

Most people choose a species on colour, then find out about hardness later.

Worth doing it the other way around, at least for the rooms that cop the most traffic. The Janka scale measures how well a timber resists denting. For a home with dogs or a busy hallway, 8.0 kN and up is the sensible range, which puts Grey Ironbark, Spotted Gum, Blackbutt and Jarrah in play.

Softer species are not lesser. Black Walnut at 6.7 and French Oak at 6.5 are two of the most beautiful floors we sell. They just belong in bedrooms, formal living rooms, and studies rather than the hallway the dog sprints down.

You can mix. Plenty of homes run a harder species through the living areas and something softer in the bedrooms.

31/08/2026

Timber moves. That has always been the problem with wide boards.

Mark explains how Stabilised Solid gets around it. The core is cross-laminated hardwood, the same Australian species as the surface, with the grain running in alternating directions. Movement gets absorbed inside the board rather than transmitted to the floor you walk on.

Which is why a wide board no longer has to be a thick one to stay stable.

We keep cross-sections in the showroom. Easier to understand with one in your hand.

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1/18 Hector Street West
Perth, WA
6017

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9:30am - 3pm

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