Lifewood

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 th

e 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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From your first showroom visit to the final floorboard, we handle everything. Book your free consultation today, we'll have a coffee ready for you.

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.

American Black Walnut. You will not find it in many Perth showrooms.Deep chocolate browns, a fine straight grain, and a ...
28/08/2026

American Black Walnut. You will not find it in many Perth showrooms.

Deep chocolate browns, a fine straight grain, and a smooth satin finish. It is the darkest timber in our range and easily the most distinctive. Walk into a room with a walnut floor, and you notice it immediately.

We build it on the same Stabilised Solid construction as the rest of the range, so the technology underneath is identical. What changes is the character on top.

New stock has landed. Worth seeing in person before you decide.

26/08/2026

Measured, glued, laid. Repeat a few hundred times.

This is French Oak in Limed Wash going into an upstairs hallway, carrying on down the stairs so the timber runs continuously between floors. Adhesive goes down, the board goes in, and it gets checked against the run before it. Every single one.

Hallways and stairs are the fussiest part of any job. Narrow spaces, more cuts, and nowhere to hide a measurement that is a millimetre off.

24/08/2026

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

Here is Mark on 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 instead of being transmitted to the floor you walk on.

Two things fall out of that. Wider boards no longer need to be thicker to stay stable. And the milling uses far more of each log than conventional cutting does.

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

21/08/2026

Tiles out, Spotted Gum in.

It was a white kitchen sitting on old tile, and it read cold. The timber gives the room something to sit on, and suddenly the same cabinetry looks warm instead of clinical.

Spotted Gum does a lot of that work on its own. Reds through honey through deep brown, all from the one species, so a floor is never flat. It is also one of the hardest we supply at 11.0 kN, which is why it ends up in so many family kitchens.

Same room. Same cupboards. Different floor.

Most floors get replaced. This one gets sanded back.Tallowwood, in a home that has clearly been lived in. There is enoug...
19/08/2026

Most floors get replaced. This one gets sanded back.

Tallowwood, in a home that has clearly been lived in. There is enough genuine hardwood in the wear layer for four sands over the life of the floor. Each one takes off about half a millimetre and brings the surface back to new.

In a normal Perth home, that means refreshing it every fifteen to twenty years, rather than pulling it out and starting again.

That is why we can hold a lifetime structural warranty on it, and why we hold it ourselves rather than passing it to a factory overseas.

A dark floor under a white kitchen is one of the safest pairings there is, and one of the most striking.White cabinetry ...
17/08/2026

A dark floor under a white kitchen is one of the safest pairings there is, and one of the most striking.

White cabinetry and stone can drift towards cold on their own. A dark timber floor gives the room a base to sit on, and the warmth stops it reading like a showroom.

It also holds up over time. Trends move around in cabinetry and splashbacks. A dark oak floor stays relevant through more than one kitchen.

This is French Oak in Black Forest.

14/08/2026

Those are concrete stairs underneath.

People are often surprised timber can go straight onto concrete, whether it is a slab or a set of stairs like these. It can. The concrete gets a moisture barrier, then the timber goes down onto it. No battens, no plywood subfloor built up first.

Stairs take longer than a floor. Every tread and riser is cut and fitted individually, and there is nowhere to hide a bad measurement.

This is the part of the job nobody sees once the furniture goes in.

12/08/2026

Bring your plans in early, even if you are nowhere near ready to choose.

Most of our Australian hardwoods come from the eastern states and restock every couple of months. If the species you want is not in stock when you decide, that is eight to twelve weeks. Jarrah and Marri are rarer again, and more seasonal.

The rule of thumb is to have your selection finalised around eight weeks before installation.

No pressure to commit early. But knowing the timeline means you end up with the floor you actually wanted, not the one that happened to be available.

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1/18 Hector Street West
Perth, WA
6017

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