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Satinder Chawla, Managing Director, SPAN FLOORS on Terrafina Exterior Decking and Bringing Pastel Wood Tones to Outdoor Spaces
- Style Essentials Edit Team
- 7 days ago
- 2 min read
Outdoor surfaces have long lagged behind the pace of interior design, and the gap has been particularly visible in decking, where darker wood tones and narrow plank formats continued to dominate even as architects and designers moved firmly toward lighter, more considered material palettes indoors. SPAN FLOORS, known for premium wood flooring and architectural surface systems, has built Terrafina Exterior Decking around precisely that disconnect, offering extra-wide 400 mm planks in lengths exceeding three meters alongside a soft pastel wood tone palette that finally allows outdoor areas to follow where contemporary interior flooring has been heading for years.
The plank's width significantly changes a deck's character, as conventional boards of 120 mm to 150 mm create surfaces with frequent visible joints resembling traditional timber rather than architectural flooring. Terrafina's wider format reduces those visual interruptions significantly, giving terraces, balconies, rooftop gardens, and poolside decks the same calm, expansive quality that wide-plank wood flooring brings to interiors and making the material transition between inside and outside feel like a continuation rather than a contrast. The softer wood tones, ranging across washed oak shades, muted grays, and quiet naturals, reinforce that continuity and give designers the means to carry an interior color palette through to external surfaces without compromise.
Engineered from high-performance composite materials, the boards are built for the demands of outdoor environments, resistant to moisture, temperature variation, abrasion, and insect attack while holding dimensional stability over time. The surface is splinter-free and slip-resistant, practical considerations that make barefoot use comfortable and the material relevant to both residential terraces and hospitality settings, including rooftop lounges and pool decks. A concealed fixing mechanism keeps the installed surface free of visible screws, maintaining the clean, uninterrupted finish that the wide plank proportions set up.
Satinder Chawla, Managing Director of SPAN FLOORS, framed the thinking behind Terrafina simply: outdoor spaces are increasingly designed as extensions of interior living, and while pastel wood flooring found its footing indoors, the equivalent outdoor option simply did not exist in a format that matched the scale and tone that contemporary design now expects.
Terrafina Exterior Decking is available across major Indian cities through SPAN FLOORS' authorized dealer network and can be experienced at the company's flagship showrooms in Greater Kailash II and MG Road, New Delhi.
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