Every hipster cafe in Melbourne is trying to fake this patina. Yours actually earned it.
Original Weathered Thins aren't trying to look old. They are old. Ex-hardwood floor joists that held up buildings while fashion trends came and went, now sliced thin and ready to tell their story on your walls.
Raw, Weathered, Recycled and Wire Brushed Finish
Three Sides Dressed for Easy Install
Cut from Ex-Hardwood Floor Joists
Popular for Commercial Shop Fitouts and Display
Because timber is a natural product with many varieties, your final product may differ in both colour and character from how it appears in the photos shown here. This is dependent on many factors, including the wood species, soil, climate and local environment, as well as the lighting at the time of the photo capture.
Unless the product is faulty, we do not accept returns for timber that does not appear as you expected. We recommend asking us which pieces are currently available before ordering if you are after a particular style or colour.
Technical Specifications:
- Profile: 85mm x 12mm grey-faced thin cladding
- Source: Reclaimed Australian hardwood ex-floor joists
- Finish: Natural grey weathered top face (light wire brush), three sides dressed
- Installation: Three dressed sides for consistent, easy installation
- Applications: Commercial fitouts, retail display, feature walls
- Authenticity: Genuine aged patina - no stains or treatments
- Stability: Pre-aged timber with minimal movement
Raw, Weathered, Recycled and Wire Brushed Finish
Raw reclaimed timber with character is what happens when Australian hardwood spends decades doing its job as a floorboard or joist without asking for attention. Time and wear and tear created this patina—we just revealed it by refacing three sides and giving it a wire brush.
That exposed natural surface you see? It's the same finish luxury retailers pay thousands to replicate with speciality paints and stains. Except theirs will chip off in five years. Yours has been developing since before you were born. Each board carries its own unique weathering pattern—proof that authenticity can't be manufactured, only discovered.
The wire brushing doesn't create the character—it just wakes it up. Removes the loose fibres, reveals the grain, and leaves you with a surface that's smooth enough to touch but textured enough to catch light like contemporary art.
Three Sides Dressed for Easy Install
Here's the genius of Original Recycled Thins: weathered character on top, civilised behaviour underneath.
Three sides dressed smooth means your shop fitter or interior installer isn't fighting warped timber or playing guess-the-gap. Clean edges slide together predictably. Uniform thickness means consistent reveals. The back sits flat against your substrate without arguments. It's reclaimed timber that acts like new timber - all the character, none of the drama.
Your chippy will love you. Cuts clean, measures true, goes up fast. No pre-drilling every nail hole. No sorting through boards looking for ones that work together. Just weathered face out, dressed sides together, done. It's heritage restoration without the heritage headaches.
Cut from Ex-Hardwood Floor Joists
These boards have already held up entire buildings. Floor joists that spent decades carrying the weight of Australian life - foot traffic, furniture, family gatherings. Now we've sliced them thin to spread that history across more walls.
Think about it: timber that was structural, not decorative. Selected for strength, not looks. Which means it's properly dried, properly stable, and properly over whatever movement it was going to do. This timber finished warping before your parents met.
The weathering goes deeper than the surface because these joists have aged from all sides over decades. It's not a skin-deep treatment that'll wear off—it's a transformation that happened at the cellular level. Authentic all the way through.
Popular for Commercial Shop Fitouts and Display
Walk into any high-end retail space trying to look "authentic" and you'll see attempts to recreate what Original Recycled Thins delivers naturally. Fashion boutiques, espresso bars, craft breweries - they all want walls that say "we've been here forever," even when they opened last Tuesday.
Thins are the shortcut to credibility. That weathered grey becomes the perfect neutral backdrop, making products pop without competing. Harsh retail lighting actually enhances texture rather than exposing fake finishes. The thin profile means you're not losing floor space to thick cladding - crucial when you're paying CBD rent by the square metre.
Display walls that make your merchandise look more expensive. Restaurant fitouts that create atmosphere before you've even lit a candle. Office reception areas that say "established" without explaining what it means. This is what happens when authentic materials meet commercial reality.
The Perfect Proportion:
85mm x 12mm
This isn't a random size—it's precision-calculated for maximum impact with minimal bulk. At 85mm wide, each board gives you enough face to appreciate the weathered character without overwhelming the space. At 12mm thin, you're adding just over a centimetre to your wall depth—crucial in tight commercial spaces or renovations where every millimetre counts.
The proportions mean faster installation, too. More coverage per square metre than wider boards. Less weight per board than thicker profiles. It's the sweet spot between presence and practicality - wide enough to see the grain, thin enough to work anywhere.
What You're Really Buying
You're buying instant heritage. The kind of authentic patina that new timber won't achieve in your lifetime. You're buying walls that look like they've been there since the building was born, even if you installed them yesterday.
But really, you're buying credibility. In a world of fake distressing and manufactured character, Original Recycled Thins are genuinely, legitimately, unarguably real. That grey came from time, not technique. Those weathered faces earned their stripes holding up Australian buildings.
Installation Note
Goes up like standard cladding because three dressed sides make it behave. That weathered face might look wild, but the precision-dressed edges keep spacing consistent and lines straight. Your installer works with the timber, not against it.
Secure Your Square Metres
Because timber with this much authentic character gets snapped up by people who know the difference between real and replica.
