One of the best things about hardwood floors is how beautifully they age. As the years pass, a hardwood floor will change and develop, its tones and shades deepening and intensifying. This process can be fascinating to observe, but you will need to have quite a bit of time on your hands to wait for a new hardwood floor to undergo this ageing process.

However, one manufacturer, Terra Antica, has come up with an incredibly clever new way to replicate and speed up the ageing process in hardwood floors. Using a unique process, the company can create floors with rustic charm and a decades-old traditional feel, but in new floors that you can buy and install today.

There are five different Terra Antica systems you can choose for your home, depending on your decor and tastes. For example, you can choose traditional engineered wood flooring or a multi-layer floor surface, or you can go for a 6mm, 9mm or a 20mm solid wood plank floor.

So if you want rustic, traditional floors and all the beautiful colours, tones and effects that the ageing process has on wood, but you don’t have a few decades to hang around waiting for it, the solution is Terra Antica wood floors.