Blackbutt Hardwood Shiplap Cladding - Dressed All Round (DAR)

Dressed Finish

DAR - Dressed All Round. Four sides, all smooth, all uniform. It's timber that's been to finishing school and graduated with honours.

This is what happens when reclaimed Australian hardwood meets precision milling. Every board emerges clean, consistent, and ready to let the grain do the talking. No rough edges catching dust. No splinters waiting to remind you they're there. Just silk-smooth timber that feels as good as it looks.

Choose your palette: the warm creams and honeyed browns that make morning light look expensive, or the deep reds that turn sunset into an event. This isn't timber hiding behind texture or treatment. This is hardwood confident enough to show up naked and still be the best-dressed wall in the room.

Your painter will thank you. Your decorator will thank you. But mostly, you'll thank yourself every time you run your hand along that surface and feel nothing but smooth, honest timber.

5mm Shadow Line Designed for Movement

Here's what nobody tells you about timber: it breathes. It expands in summer, contracts in winter, and if you don't plan for it, it'll remind you who's boss.

Our 5mm shadow line isn't just a design detail - it's timber psychology. That precise gap between boards gives your cladding room to move without drama. No buckling. No splitting. No midnight creaking that makes you wonder what's happening in your walls.

But here's the genius part: that 5mm shadow turns flat walls into something architectural. Light plays in those channels, creating depth that paint could never achieve. Morning sun throws one pattern, afternoon another. It's subtle enough that most people won't know why your walls look expensive - they just will.

It's the difference between cladding that fights the weather and cladding that dances with it.

Versatile Uses

Dressed All Round doesn't pick favourites. It's the Switzerland of cladding - neutral, reliable, and welcome everywhere.

Modern minimalist box? DAR provides the clean lines without the attitude. Federation restoration? It's what was there originally. Coastal hamptons? Beach industrial? Japanese-influenced zen space? Yes, yes, and yes.

This is cladding that plays well with others. It doesn't compete with your windows, doesn't clash with your stone, doesn't argue with your steel. It just shows up, looks brilliant, and lets everything else look better by association.

Bedroom walls stay warm and inviting. Office walls stay professional but human. Restaurant walls create atmosphere without trying. It's the timber equivalent of a perfectly tailored white shirt - never wrong, always right, infinitely adaptable.

Internal / External Use

Class 1 durability dressed in its Sunday best. That's the magic of DAR.

Outside, it handles Australian weather like it was born to it—because it was. These reclaimed boards have already survived decades of whatever nature could throw at them. Now, dressed smooth and properly installed, they're ready for decades more. Rain sheets off that smooth surface. The sun warms it evenly. That 5mm gap lets moisture escape before it becomes anyone's problem.

Inside, the same durability becomes pure luxury. Smooth walls that don't need kid gloves. Feature walls that actually get better with age. Bathroom cladding that laughs at humidity. It's tough enough for your garage, refined enough for your dining room.

One product, no compromises. Because good design shouldn't make you choose between beautiful and bulletproof.

Class 1 Durability

Let's be clear about what Class 1 means: it's the highest durability rating offered by Australian standards—the same classification they give to power poles and wharf pilings.

But here's the thing - this isn't fresh-cut timber hoping to earn that rating. This is reclaimed hardwood that's already proven it—decades of service in bridges, railways, and buildings that are still standing. We're not predicting how it'll perform. We're showing you the receipts.

Naturally, termite-resistant because termites learned long ago that Australian hardwood isn't worth the effort. Fire resistant to AS 3959 because density matters more than treatments. This is timber that doesn't need chemicals to be tough - it was born that way, and time has only made it tougher.