The ALMA Collection from Castro Wood Floors is a range of engineered oak flooring centred on natural colour, texture and understated finishes for contemporary interiors.

Designed to highlight the inherent character of wood, the collection comprises eight engineered oak floors, providing architects, interior designers and specifiers with a coordinated palette for residential and commercial projects.

Eight Engineered Oak Finishes

The ALMA Collection consists of eight finishes:

• Serenity
• Harmony
• Memory
• Purity
• Essence
• Legacy
• Origin
• Eternity

Each design uses oak, with variations in tone, texture and finish providing different options while maintaining a consistent overall character across the collection. The palettes focus on natural, timeless tones, making ALMA suitable for a broad range of interior materials, colour schemes and design styles.

Natural Oak at the Centre of ALMA

The design approach behind the ALMA Collection focuses on the natural qualities of timber.

Castro Wood Floors describes ALMA as a collection that reveals the natural beauty of wood, with colour, texture and finish working together to create understated flooring surfaces. For interior designers and specifiers, this makes the collection particularly relevant to schemes where natural materials form an important part of the material palette.

Oak is also highly versatile from a design perspective, working alongside materials such as stone, terrazzo, metal, textiles and timber joinery. As with any natural wood flooring, variations in grain and appearance between individual boards contribute to the overall character of the installed floor.

Engineered Wood Construction

The eight ALMA designs are available as engineered parquet, combining a genuine oak surface with an engineered flooring construction. This provides the appearance and tactile qualities of natural timber alongside the practical benefits associated with engineered wood flooring.

For specification purposes, engineered oak can be considered across a wide range of interior applications where designers want the warmth and natural variation of timber within a contemporary flooring scheme.

A Coordinated Palette for Interior Projects

One of the practical advantages of the ALMA Collection is the choice of related oak finishes available within a single range.

Flooring rarely sits in isolation within an interior. Its tone needs to be considered alongside joinery, furniture, stone, wall finishes and textiles, as well as the natural and artificial lighting within the space. Having eight coordinated finishes gives designers the opportunity to compare different oak tones while retaining the overall material character of the collection. The subtlety of the palette also allows the flooring to perform as a foundation for the wider interior rather than necessarily becoming its dominant feature.

Selecting the Right ALMA Finish

With natural timber flooring, physical samples remain particularly important during the specification process. Colour on screen can differ from the appearance of the actual material, while the grain and natural variation of oak become much more apparent when viewed at a larger scale.

Lighting also significantly influences the finished appearance of timber. An oak tone viewed under showroom lighting may respond differently when placed alongside the project's other materials and viewed in its intended environment. For this reason, ALMA samples can be considered alongside joinery, stone, fabrics and other finishes when developing the project's material palette.

Explore the ALMA Collection

With eight engineered oak finishes, the Castro Wood Floors ALMA Collection provides architects, interior designers and specifiers with a versatile selection of natural timber flooring for contemporary interiors.

Its focus on oak, natural variation and a coordinated range of tones makes ALMA particularly suitable for projects where flooring needs to complement a considered material palette.

Contact Flooring Providers to view ALMA Collection samples and discuss finishes and specification options for your next project.

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