Every CALI Vinyl Longboards Color: CALI's Best-Selling Vinyl
Nine inches wide. Seventy and seven-eighths long. A 20 mil wear layer. A coastal color range across a dozen floors, and the room each color is right for.
At a Glance
| Color | Color Family | Designer's Note | Shop | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Salty Strand | White/Off-White | Creamy off-white with a faint tan undertone. In the style of lightly whitewashed oak. Bright, airy, warm without going cold. | View Product → |
![]() | Whitewater Oak | White/Off-White | Soft, even off-white with whisper-light grain. Echoes a true whitewash with real wood character. Clean, calm, receding. | View Product → |
![]() | Oceanic Oak | Gray | Warm gray with a soft greige undertone. Captures the look of weathered driftwood with warmth still in it. Calm, current, easy to live with. A flagship Longboards plank - wide, textured, top-tier build. Resists scratches, dents, and water without complaint. | View Product → |
![]() | Coastline Cliff | Gray | Slate gray with a deeper, moodier tone. Modeled after wet coastal stone. Cool, considered, a touch dramatic. Wide planks and built-in texture round out the premium build. Tough enough for entryways, mudrooms, and high-traffic floors. | View Product → |
![]() | Seaboard Oak | Tan | Warm sandy tan with a soft golden lean. Calls to mind warm, light-stained oak. Easygoing, versatile, never loud. | View Product → |
![]() | Reefwood | Tan | Weathered, sea-bleached tan with real driftwood character. Inspired by wood worn by sun and salt. Relaxed, casual, lived-in. | View Product → |
![]() | Doheny Dune | Tan | Sun-washed tan with a clean, bright feel. Inspired by sun-bleached beach grass. Light, breezy, universally flattering. | View Product → |
![]() | Sandbar Oak | Blonde | Soft warm blonde with a faint cream undertone. Modeled after pale natural oak. Airy, calm, restrained. | View Product → |
![]() | North Shore Oak | Honey | Deep honey oak with warm amber tones. Echoes a rich, golden-stained hardwood. Warm, classic, inviting. | View Product → |
![]() | Island Maple | Warm Brown | Clean warm brown with a tighter, refined grain. Drawn from the tight grain of stained maple. Quiet, balanced, low-key. | View Product → |
![]() | Portola Pier | Brown | Warm saturated mid-brown with lighter color running through the grain. Reminiscent of wide-plank stained hardwood. Grounded, tactile, substantial. | View Product → |
![]() | Offshore Oak | Dark Brown | Deep walnut-brown with hints of golden undertone. Resembles a complex stained hardwood. Grounded, serious, but inviting. | View Product → |
What Longboards Is, and What It Isn't
Longboards is CALI's best-selling vinyl line. The name is borrowed from the long boards of classic California surf culture, and the look is clearly West Coast: weathered driftwood tans, warm sandy oaks, deep walnut browns, and the kind of lived-in coastal palette that defines homes from Santa Cruz to Cape Cod. It is the collection you pick when you want a floor that feels like it has always been there.
The format does most of the heavy lifting. Every plank in the line is 9 inches wide by 70 and 7/8 inches long, which is meaningfully larger than standard vinyl. Long planks mean fewer visible end joints, more continuous grain across a room, and an installed floor that reads as more refined and more expensive than the 48-inch planks that dominate the rest of the category. Pair that with a 20 mil commercial-grade wear layer, waterproof SPC rigid core, attached Mute Step pad, and a Lifetime Limited Residential warranty, and Longboards becomes one of the few luxury vinyl lines that earns the price tag on spec alone.
The decision, then, is the color. Below is every active Longboards floor, twelve in all, ordered loosely from the warm-tan center out to the blondes and honeys, down into the browns, and across to the grays and off-whites. Each one is covered the same way: how the floor reads in a real room, the coastal-to-transitional interiors it suits, and the cabinetry and wall tones that pair with it.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · White/Off-White
Salty Strand
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Salty Strand is one of the two lightest floors in the Longboards collection - a creamy off-white with the faintest tan undertone. The careful balance here is the warmth: most very-light floors on the market read cold or chalky, while Salty Strand keeps just enough golden undertone in the grain to read as genuine wood rather than as bleached-out vinyl. It is the floor for rooms that want to feel open and airy without ever feeling clinical.
Best For
Bright, gallery-like interiors and beach houses that want the lightest possible floor with real warmth still in it.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with bright white walls, soft cream cabinetry, warm-wood furniture for contrast, antique brass, raw linen, and the very-light, very-airy beach interiors that have replaced the cool-gray coastal look.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · White/Off-White
Whitewater Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Whitewater Oak is the cleanest, palest floor in the Longboards collection - a soft, even off-white with whisper-light grain. Compared with Salty Strand, Whitewater Oak runs a touch cooler and a touch more even, which makes it the right call for modern coastal or Scandinavian interiors that want the floor to genuinely recede. It is the closest the collection comes to a true white-wash, but it is built with real wood character rather than as a flat-white coating.
Best For
Modern coastal and Scandinavian-leaning interiors that want the lightest, cleanest floor.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with white, bone, and warm-greige walls, natural and bleached-wood furniture, matte black or polished nickel hardware, navy accents, and the pared-back Scandinavian and modern-coastal palettes that are dominating new builds.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Gray
Oceanic Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Oceanic Oak is the warm-gray entry in the Longboards line - and the emphasis is on warm. This is not the cold blue-gray that dominated flooring through the 2010s; Oceanic Oak runs softer, with a greige undertone that pairs with current furniture instead of fighting it. The grain has real visible grain rather than the abstract texture that defined the bad gray vinyl of a decade ago.
Best For
Modern coastal interiors that want a warm-leaning gray - not the cold gray-blue of 2018, but a softer, more current take.
Pairs Well With
Works with white and bone walls, soft blue and sage accents, polished nickel or brushed chrome, weathered-driftwood furniture, and the cooler-leaning coastal palettes that still want some restraint in their grays.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Gray
Coastline Cliff
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Coastline Cliff is the deeper, moodier gray - a slate-leaning, weather-worn tone that captures the feeling of a coastline in November rather than July. The grain carries enough warm undertone to keep the floor from ever reading cold, but the dominant impression is still cool, considered, and a touch dramatic. It is the most weather-aware color.
Best For
Pacific Northwest and stormy-coastal homes that want a moodier, deeper gray with real depth.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with whitewashed shiplap, charcoal and slate walls, deep evergreen and navy cabinetry, matte black fixtures, and the Pacific-Northwest-leaning palette that runs cooler than California coastal.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Tan
Seaboard Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Seaboard Oak is the warm-tan center of the Longboards collection - a sandy, golden-leaning oak that reads warm in any light without ever falling into yellow or orange territory. The graining is soft and unhurried, with enough natural grain to feel real but never busy. It is the color most Longboards buyers default to once they put a sample down next to their cabinets, because it works under almost every cabinetry tone in current use.
Best For
Open-plan living rooms, sun-filled kitchens, and modern coastal homes that want warmth without going orange.
Pairs Well With
Pairs cleanly with white shaker cabinetry, warm-stained oak, painted-sage millwork, brass and bronze fixtures, and the soft cream-and-linen palette that defines current coastal interiors.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Tan
Reefwood
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Reefwood is the weathered-driftwood color - a tan that has been bleached by sea air and softened by sun. It runs a touch cooler than Seaboard Oak, with enough visible grain to read as genuinely weathered rather than as a flat beige. It is the kind of floor that makes a room feel lived-in from day one, which is the entire point of Longboards as a collection.
Best For
Coastal and California-modern interiors that want a slightly cooler, weathered tan with driftwood character.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with whitewashed wood, raw linen upholstery, matte black fixtures, sea-glass blues and greens, and the kind of beach-house palette that intentionally avoids anything too pristine.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Tan
Doheny Dune
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Doheny Dune sits in the warm-tan family with Seaboard Oak and Reefwood, but tilts a touch lighter and a touch cleaner - closer to the color of sun-bleached beach grass than to weathered driftwood. The grain is restrained but legible, which gives the floor its sand-toned, very-California finish. It is one of the most universally flattering colors.
Best For
Bright, breezy coastal homes that want the sun-washed warmth of beach-house tan with extra clarity.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with white-and-warm-wood kitchens, raw linen and natural-cotton upholstery, brass fixtures, soft seafoam and sage accents, and the bright-cottage palette of Southern California coastal interiors.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Blonde
Sandbar Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Sandbar Oak is the lighter half - a soft, warm blonde with the faintest cream undertone. It is the color you pick when you want a pale floor without the cold, almost-white look that has dated so much of the past decade's gray-blonde flooring. The grain is restrained, which keeps the floor reading as a quiet, airy backdrop rather than a busy focal point.
Best For
Bright kitchens, beach houses, and Scandinavian-leaning interiors that want a pale floor with a little real wood character.
Pairs Well With
Works under white-painted millwork, light oak cabinetry, navy and sage walls, and the bright-but-warm palette that defines Cape Cod and modern coastal Hamptons interiors.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Honey
North Shore Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
North Shore Oak runs the deepest honey tone in the Longboards line - a warm, amber-leaning oak with visible grain and enough golden saturation to anchor a room. This is the honey oak the market has been waiting for: wide, long, low-sheen, with the chromatic depth of stained wood rather than the flat orange of 1990s strip oak. It carries Craftsman warmth without feeling like a revival project.
Best For
Craftsman and Mission-style homes, transitional kitchens, and any space that wants real honey-oak warmth without going dated.
Pairs Well With
Pairs naturally with Mission-style trim, walnut and oak furniture, unpainted millwork, leaded-glass accents, and warm wall colors in the cream-to-clay range.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Warm Brown
Island Maple
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Island Maple sits between Seaboard Oak and Portola Pier on the warmth scale - a clean, warm brown with maple-leaning grain that reads tighter. It is the everyday-family-home floor: warm enough to feel welcoming, restrained enough not to demand attention, durable enough to live with for decades.
Best For
Transitional interiors and family homes that want warm character without the deepest brown saturation.
Pairs Well With
Pairs well with painted-white cabinetry, sage and olive walls, warm neutral upholstery, oil-rubbed bronze, and the casual transitional palette most contemporary American homes are built around.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Brown
Portola Pier
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Portola Pier is the warm mid-brown anchor of the Longboards collection, with the kind of saturated wood color that grounds an open-plan space. The grain has real chromatic variation: lighter strands running through deeper brown plank-to-plank, which keeps the floor from ever flattening out under direct light.
Best For
Rustic-modern living rooms, mountain homes, and warm interiors that want a substantial mid-brown floor.
Pairs Well With
Pairs cleanly with cream and bone walls, navy or forest-green cabinetry, leather furniture, antique brass, and the layered-rustic interiors that define mountain-modern and updated farmhouse design.
CALI Vinyl Longboards · Dark Brown
Offshore Oak
9″ × 70-7/8″ plank · 20 mil wear layer · Waterproof SPC core · Attached underlayment
Offshore Oak is the darkest color in the Longboards line - a deep, saturated brown with real chromatic complexity. The grain carries lighter golden strands running through a deep walnut-brown base, which gives the floor the visual depth that flat-dark vinyl never has. This is the floor for interiors that want the gravity of dark wood without losing the warmth that makes dark floors feel inviting rather than heavy.
Best For
Statement rooms, dark-cabinet kitchens, and contemporary interiors that want serious chromatic depth.
Pairs Well With
Pairs with cream and warm-white walls, brass and gold fixtures, jewel-toned upholstery, painted-navy or painted-green cabinetry, and the kind of considered, layered interiors that benefit from a dark anchor.
CALI Longboards FAQ
The questions homeowners ask when picking a Longboards floor.
Is CALI Longboards worth it?
For most homeowners doing a real renovation, yes. Longboards is CALI Vinyl's best-selling collection, and the spec sheet backs up why: a 20 mil commercial-grade wear layer, waterproof SPC rigid core, attached Mute Step underlayment, and a Lifetime Limited Residential warranty. The 9"-wide, 70-and-7/8"-long plank format is the most visually distinct floor CALI makes - wider and longer planks read as more current and more expensive than standard 6 to 7" wide vinyl. If you are renovating with the intent to stay or sell well, Longboards is the right tier to be shopping.
What is the most popular CALI Longboards color?
Seaboard Oak is the one most buyers land on, a warm sandy tan that pairs with almost every cabinetry tone in current use and works under both bright California-coastal palettes and warmer transitional interiors. Sandbar Oak (warm blonde) and North Shore Oak (honey) round out the top three. The pattern has been clear for two years now: warm, real-wood tones over cool grays.
How is Longboards different from Longboards Icons?
Longboards and Longboards Icons share the same 9-by-70-7/8" wide-and-long plank format and the same waterproof SPC construction, but Icons is a separate, smaller capsule with its own distinct color palette and finish treatments - typically with more weathered, hand-scraped, or limewashed effects. The Longboards collection covered in this guide is the core, ongoing line. Icons rotates more often and tends to read more design-led; the core Longboards line is built around versatile, everyday colors that work across more interior styles.
Is CALI Longboards waterproof?
Yes. Every plank in the Longboards collection is built on a 100 percent waterproof SPC (stone polymer composite) rigid core, which means it will not swell, warp, or delaminate from water exposure. That makes Longboards a valid choice for kitchens, bathrooms, mudrooms, basements, and any other room where moisture is a real consideration. The warranty backs this up for the full life of the residential install.
What is the wear layer on CALI Longboards?
20 mil. That is a commercial-grade wear layer - significantly thicker than the 8 to 12 mil that defines mid-market vinyl plank. The wear layer is the clear, durable top film that protects the printed wood-look layer underneath, and 20 mil is enough to handle pets, kids, rolling chairs, and heavy traffic without scratching through to the design layer. It is also why CALI is willing to put a 15-year light-commercial warranty on the line.
How wide and long are CALI Longboards planks?
9" wide by 70 and 7/8" long. That is the signature dimension - significantly wider and dramatically longer than standard vinyl plank (which typically runs 6 to 7" wide by 48" long). The result is fewer end joints visible in a finished floor, longer continuous grain lines across rooms, and a more refined, modern visual that closer matches the look of wide-plank engineered hardwood.
Does CALI Longboards come with underlayment attached?
Yes - every plank ships with an attached Mute Step pad. That means no separate underlayment purchase is required for most installs (only a moisture barrier on concrete, where applicable). The attached pad adds underfoot comfort, reduces sound transmission, and helps the floor feel more like real wood underfoot rather than the hollow tap of pad-less vinyl.
What is the warranty on CALI Longboards?
Lifetime Limited Residential and 15-Year Light Commercial. The residential warranty covers manufacturing defects, wear-through of the design layer, and waterproof performance for as long as the original purchaser owns the home. That is among the strongest warranties in luxury vinyl, and it is supported by the same 20 mil wear layer and SPC core that drive the day-to-day performance.
Order Your Samples
Samples are a smart first step on any flooring project. Order Longboards samples for a flat $9.99 shipping fee (up to 10 per order), and full flooring orders over $1,999 ship free to your home.
























