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The Marchand Queenstown studio, 313 Hawthorne Drive, with La Forêt Oak flooring

Queenstown Studio

313 Hawthorne Drive

Timber Flooring in Queenstown

European oak flooring, wall and ceiling boards and stairs, specified from our Queenstown studio inside TRENZSEATER on Hawthorne Drive. The studio is finished in La Forêt Oak throughout, floor, stair and wall, so a single colour can be seen resolving across every surface rather than imagined from a sample.

Interior design help in Queenstown, without the fee

Alpine schemes are decided against a view, and the floor has to hold the room against it. A consultation at Hawthorne Drive starts there: the glass, the schist, the joinery, and how a warm or a grey oak changes what the rest of the house can be. Lianne Johnson looks after the studio and the conversation, from the first sample through to the specification detail. It is free and takes about an hour, weekdays 9am to 5pm and Saturday 10am to 4pm.

If you would rather start at home, samples are free and unlimited, and a concept box puts the floor beside the carpet, cladding, stone and cabinetry tones our designers would set with it, collated for your house after a short call. Book a consultation in Queenstown.

What Central Otago does to a timber floor

Central Otago puts a timber floor through a lot. Humidity can swing from very dry in a schist-cold winter with the fire going to high in a wet spring, and a wide board moves with it.

That is why we ask for acclimatisation on site rather than a delivery straight into a build, and why substrate moisture is worth confirming rather than assuming. Laid to guideline, our boards go in without a perimeter expansion gap, so the work that decides the outcome happens before the first board goes down. On alpine builds with underfloor heating over slab, the commissioning cycle matters as much as the board.

Delivery across the Southern Lakes

We deliver throughout Queenstown, Wānaka, Cromwell, Arrowtown, Glenorchy and Central Otago. Installation is by independent flooring contractors we can put you in touch with.

La Forêt Oak flooring, stairs and wall panels in the Marchand Queenstown studio
Visit the studio

Upstairs TRENZSEATER, 313 Hawthorne Drive, Queenstown.

Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Saturday, 10.00am to 4.00pm.

Lianne Johnson, Relationship Manager.
027 244 0558

Oak wall panels and board display in the Marchand Queenstown studio
Book a consultation

Free, and about an hour. Bring plans, joinery samples and the three colours you cannot decide between.

Anywhere in the Southern Lakes we can also do it by video call, screen sharing your plans.

Book a consultation
Marchand designer sample box holding the full European oak flooring collection, each board labelled by colour
Order samples first

Free and unlimited, delivered anywhere in Central Otago. A week in your own light tells you more than an hour under studio lighting.

Order samples