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atural textures of wood on feature walls are already proving popular this year as interior designers and DIYers alike are embracing a more
rusticIdeal Home Magazine, always a great barometer of mainstream trends, cites “New Nordic” and “Woodland Retreat” as the hot trends for 2019.
Decorators have also been heavily influenced by the ever-popular industrial-style interiors of bars and restaurants, with a softer take on the exposed workings of buildings being transferred to the domestic environment. So, the search is on for high quality, sustainable wood cladding products – ones that can exist in both rustic and industrial settings.
Provincial Plank is an easy to install interior wall cladding product that retains the natural, rustic characteristics of wood. The primary use is to accent feature walls in both residential and commercial settings. Made in Canada from Canadian hardwoods including maple and ash, the FSC Mix certified product features the naturally occurring characteristics of knots, grain swirls and colour variations. Snows Timber has an exclusive UK
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distribution agreement with Canadian Company Horizon Coatings Inc. for Provincial Plank in the United Kingdom. The deal sees this premium Canadian interior cladding hit the UK market for the first time.
Tamara Kelly of Ideal Home Magazine wrote: “With the popularity of dark pigment paints, light woods and soft tonal textures are made to stand out.” She names hewn wood as one of the key materials for interiors in the coming year.
Provincial plank can be used in just about every room in the house, looking just as natural in the bathroom as the bedroom. A wood-clad feature wall works brilliantly in a cosy living room, with comfortable furniture and rustic throws but it can also highlight in a more clinical environment, like kitchen with exposed pipework and steel fittings. Installation is simple. In order for it to acclimatise, the wood should be stored for about seven days in the room in which it is to be installed. This will avoid any expansions or contractions that could create gaps between planks after fixing. Then it can simply be glued, screwed or nailed into place. Each box of Provincial Plank contains eight planks in a
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The growing trend for more natural-looking interiors and increasing environmental awareness has led to increased interest in sustainable woods.
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carefully selected range of wood colours – both sides are stained to allow more choice. It can be installed horizontally in a staggered or offset staggered formation, or in diagonal or herringbone patterns.
Those undertaking the installation should avoid placing similar shades adjacent to each other, then the selection in each box will ensure a good mix of shades. Provincial Plank recommends using all the contents of each box before opening another for this reason. Snows has seen growing take-up from stockists since it began distributing Provincial Plank last year.
The growing trend for more natural looking interiors and increasing environmental awareness has led consumers to look increasingly to sustainable and natural woods.
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