Marchand Wall and Ceiling Boards: Why Cohesion Is the New Luxury
Cohesion is the new luxury
True cohesion comes from continuity. The ability to carry a material across floors, walls and ceilings without compromise is what separates a well-designed space from an exceptional one.
Marchand wall and ceiling boards are designed for exactly this, offering an architectural solution for lining vertical and overhead surfaces using the same engineered European oak palette as our flooring.
One palette, every surface
The boards are available in the same colour palette as the flooring range. Select a tone once and carry it consistently throughout the house. Whether you work with a soft natural tone like Riviera, a warm neutral like Picasso, or a deeper shade like Chocolat, the colour stays consistent across floors, walls and ceilings.
This removes the familiar problem of trying to match timber products from different suppliers. Instead of visual fragmentation, you get flow.
Designed to wrap every surface
The wall boards are 120mm wide, exactly half the width of our 240mm flooring boards. That is deliberate. It allows joins to align across surfaces, so a home can be fully wrapped in oak with flooring, walls and ceilings working together in proportion and rhythm.
You can see the full application at our Queenstown Studio, which features a fully wrapped La Forêt oak staircase and wall panels alongside the flooring, and at Victoria Studio in Christchurch.
A refined profile
Boards are 120mm wide, 12mm thick and 2.4m long, with a subtle micro bevel creating a refined shadow line between each board. The narrower profile reads modern and linear installed vertically, or relaxed and expansive run horizontally across ceilings.
Boards are prefinished with a high-performance coating, so they are ready to install and require no sanding or finishing on site. That gives a consistent appearance and reduces installation time.
Performance matters more on a ceiling
New Zealand homes experience significant seasonal variation in temperature and humidity. Materials need to respond without movement, cracking or instability. Engineered construction gives dimensional stability across all surfaces, which is particularly important overhead where any distortion is immediately visible.
On fire, our manufacturer's technical specification records the boards at Group 3 with the standard coating, and Group 1-S with an intumescent coating such as Firezone 92. That is the figure a consent application will ask for. The fire, VOC and acoustic test reports on our Resources page cover the 20mm flooring rather than these boards.
Where it has been used
Dan Carter's Legacy uses Picasso oak wall boards to create a feature wall in a memorabilia room. Koromiko in Wānaka uses Noir Bandsawn, a textured black finish that turns a plane into a feature.
A material that lasts
By specifying a long-lasting engineered oak product you are investing in a material that will not need replacing. Our whole-of-life position is set out on our Sustainability page.
See the boards
Order the designer wall and ceiling sample box to see the profile and finishes in your own space, or book a consultation to talk through an application.
