Rooms With Different Color Wood Floors

They define different areas of the home.

Rooms with different color wood floors. Is it ok to have hardwood in the bedroom one color and the hardwood in the living room a different color since the two rooms border each other. You can also separate areas in large rooms with different grains of wood. First light wood floors tends to show less dirt and second it is less likely to show scratches than its dark wood counterpart. Another advantage of light wood flooring is it can brighten up a room without a lot of natural light.

Here s our huge gallery. Out of that 72 75 of living rooms using hardwood flooring the most common color or tone of hardwood is medium tone. We have charts and tables below the gallery providing all the living room floor data you need. They are on different levels so there is a clear place to stop one and start the other.

They are strikingly different in color yet the lighter flooring has a variety of colors pulling in some of the deep color of the darker wood flooring. I prefer the hardwood but the issue is that the neighboring rooms have a light colored hardwood floor probably with something like 2 wide planks. If you re working with new hardwood and an existing floor rip out some of the old flooring around the perimeter of the room to add the border. Account for the extra new flooring when placing your order.

If you want to install different wood grain floors in adjacent rooms it can be easy to do so. In this living room by l a based designer amber lewis for instance the light gray washed floors are complemented with a dark walnut coffee table and chairs that feature three different wood tones. This makes the contrast look deliberate and smooths the transition. I m considering maybe a contrasting hardwood in the kitchen wider planks in a darker brown or a medium gray.

Would that possibly be a show stopper for a buyer. The key is to match the color of the floor with the entryway as one flows into the other. Light color wood also has a couple distinct advantages over dark wood floors. Lay both floors in a herringbone or chevron pattern.

Off the foyer the living room flooring can be sculpted carpet wood cork bamboo laminate tile or stone. At the border stagger the two woods so they mix for one to three rows. It may seem counterintuitive but when mixing wood tones contrast is your friend.