Flute Slat Wall Panel — Ivory Ripple

Ivory Ripple is the most textural panel in the range — an off-white surface with an embossed rippled grain, laid over a fine half-round fluted profile. Two layers of relief on one board.

Texture on texture

Most panels give you one thing: a colour, a pattern, or a profile. This gives you three surfaces working at three distances. From the doorway you see the vertical rhythm of the flute. From a few paces you see the ripple running through it. Up close you can feel the embossing under your hand. There is a great deal going on for something that is, from a colour point of view, simply off-white.

The neutral that earns its place

Off-white is the safest decision anyone makes about a wall and usually the dullest. This is the version that isn't: it works with any scheme, it never dates, it hides marks better than paint, and it changes noticeably through the day as the light angle moves across the ribs. If you want a room to feel considered without committing to a colour, this is the panel.

Specifications

• Pack contents: 4 slats, each 2800 × 160 mm
• Coverage: 1.79 m² per pack (640 mm covered width)
• Profile: fine half-round flute
• Composition: WPC (Wood Plastic Composite), bamboo fibre bonded with polymer
• Surface: pre-finished decorative layer, embossed
• Fire rating: B1 (EN 13501-1)
• Water resistance: 100% waterproof
• Suitable for: interior walls and ceilings
• Fixing: adhesive plus the integrated profile system at every joint
• Guarantee: 10 years

Where Ivory Ripple works best

Headboard walls, hallway linings, and any room with strong architectural lighting — a wall washer or a skirting uplight makes this finish considerably better than it looks in daylight. Behind a desk in a study. As a full-height treatment in a living room where the furniture should be the feature. In commercial work it is the one to specify for reception desks, hotel lobbies and showroom walls, where a plain white wall would be a missed opportunity.

Installation

Panels bond to a flat, dry substrate with high-grab construction adhesive and lock together using the integrated profile system at every joint. No battens required. Both the ripple and the flute run vertically — keep every panel the same way up and dry-lay the wall first. The profiles accept optional LED inserts, which suit this finish particularly well. Cut with a fine-tooth blade rated for WPC.

Each pack contains four 160 mm slats rather than one wide board. That makes them far easier to carry, to get up a staircase and to work around sockets and door openings, and it means a damaged piece costs you a quarter of a pack rather than the whole thing. The integrated profile locks the slats together so the joins read as part of the flute rather than as seams.

Order a sample first — £3.99. This is the hardest of the seven to photograph, because the whole point is relief texture that only shows itself when light rakes across it.