Trims are usually the last thing anyone thinks about, but they finish the job. Where the floor meets a wall, a doorway, a step, or a different floor covering, you need a profile that covers the expansion gap and doesn’t look like an afterthought. We stock alloy trims in a full colour range and colour-match them to every product in our Melbourne catalogue.
Every finish below is shown on a reducer profile so you can see how the colour and grain read on a real trim rather than as a flat chip. The same finishes are available across the other profile shapes.
What trims are for
- Cover the expansion gap at walls and fixed objects
- Finish doorways and transitions to tiles or carpet
- Neaten stairs, thresholds and end cuts
- Soften the join between two floor colours or systems
Get the colour wrong and the trim either disappears into the skirting or shouts louder than the floor. Get it close and the room reads as one finished surface.
Expansion gaps (why the trim exists)
Timber, engineered and many floating systems need room to move with moisture and temperature. The gap at walls and fixed joinery is deliberate; the floor needs it.
As a rough trade range (confirm on your product and span), allow around 8–15 mm at perimeters for many timber jobs. Floating hybrid and laminate follow the manufacturer’s spec, sometimes more on long runs. Filling that gap with silicone defeats the purpose. Cover it with skirting, scotia or the right end profile instead.
Doorways between floating floors, or floor-to-tile height changes, need a transition that lets each side move. Fix a rigid cover hard to both floors and something will tick or buckle when winter heating hits.
Profiles (what the installer orders)
Colour and profile shape are separate decisions. The images in this guide show the reducer; the same finishes run across the rest of the range.
Reducer
For a floor stepping down to a lower surface such as tile, carpet, vinyl or a slab step. It covers the height change and the movement joint. Measure the real height on site; too steep looks clumsy and too flat won’t cover the gap.
T-mould / transition
For floors of the same (or near) height meeting across a doorway. The stem sits in the gap and the wings cover both edges so each floor can expand. If the height is wrong it catches socks and vacuum heads.
End cap / square edge
For a wall, hob, sliding-door track or vertical stop where skirting won’t cover the gap. It keeps the expansion space open with a clean metal edge.
Stair nosing
Sits on the front of a tread, hiding the plank end and taking the wear. Stairs carry the most liability of any floor detail, so the fixings matter as much as the colour. Mid-tone nosings suit busy grades.
Ask supply & install to quote profiles with the floor. We match colours at no charge; getting the right shape is what keeps the expansion gap working.
How we match colours
Every flooring colour in our catalogue has been cross-matched against this trim range. We sample the board colour (tone and warmth) and pick the closest alloy finishes — usually three options so you can choose blend-in, slightly lighter, or slightly darker.
Open any product page and you’ll see Recommended trim with swatches. That’s the same matching used here. It covers colour only, not a structural schedule; your installer still picks the profile shape (reducer, T-mould, end cap, stair nosing) for each detail.
All trim colours we stock
These are the 22 alloy finishes we colour-match against. Names are the finish labels; the metal underneath is the same trim system.
Light and cool
Snow · Silver · Rock · Porcelain · Marble · Lugarno · Moon
Best with pale greys, whitewashed oaks, cool light hybrids, and soft greige boards.
Warm mid-tones
Champagne · Parana · Latte · Mink Grey · Zermatt · Gold · Oak
Best with warm blondes, light-to-mid oaks, and honey tones.
Hardwood and deep tones
Sunshine · Spotted Gum · Blackbutt · Kempas · Jarrah · Teak · Walnut · Black
Best with Aussie hardwood looks, red-browns, smoked, carbonised and dark floors.
Colour list (A–Z)
- Black — smoked, carbonised, near-black boards
- Blackbutt — pale-to-mid Aussie hardwood looks
- Champagne — warm blonde and soft oak
- Gold — honey mid-oaks
- Jarrah — deep red-brown species
- Kempas — rich warm red-browns
- Latte — warm light oaks (one of our most-used matches)
- Lugarno — soft beige and greige
- Marble — soft beige / greige (our most common top match)
- Mink Grey — warm grey-brown mid tones
- Moon — soft taupe and greige
- Oak — classic mid oak
- Parana — warm blonde (another frequent top match)
- Porcelain — light beige
- Rock — cool light grey
- Silver — cool pale / metallic light
- Snow — very light and whitewashed floors
- Spotted Gum — warm golden hardwood looks
- Sunshine — bright honey tones
- Teak — mid-deep warm browns
- Walnut — deep brown and smoked
- Zermatt — warm mid oak / alpine blonde
Marble, Snow, Parana and Latte are the finishes we recommend most often across the current catalogue — they sit in the middle of a lot of popular engineered and hybrid colours.
Choosing on site
- Hold the trim against an actual board; photos on a screen shift the colour.
- Check in daylight and under the lights you’ll live with.
- For feature grade, pick a mid tone instead of matching the lightest or darkest board. See floor colour and grade.
- Consider the skirting too; a trim matched to the floor can still clash with the skirting.
- Order a little extra for cuts; one missing nosing holds up a staircase.