A typical room showing dark and light woods can go together.
You finally have the desired favourite of a sanded wood floor and of course it looks stunning. But how can you be sure to get the best from it?
What can you do with regards to your other furnishings to ensure you don’t end up with ugly or mismatched clashes?
Keep your sanded wood floor away from matching furniture
The good news here is that matching is no longer the way to go!
A room full of the same colour and type of wood is old fashioned and boring. And it’s impractical. After all not many of us have the money to completely furnish a room in one fell swoop. So a room can be brought together over time and this is the best way it can reflect your life and personality too.
Mix old and new
A good example is the light maple sanded floor I have at home , bought off ebay it was reclaimed from an old gym and we lay and sanded it ourselves. It looked stunning and as soon as it was finished I began hunting for a new tv cabinet to match but tied myself up in knots trying to find the exact same shade. After an exhaustive search I shelved the idea thinking I would come back to it when perhaps I had some more money. A few weeks later I came across by chance an old pine double school desk with lift up lid and inkwell, again on ebay. We decided £25 was a bargain and that we could sand it and stain it to look just like the floor. But as soon as we brought it home I could see its beauty just as it was. Even down to the childs set of initials scratched into it with biro. We sawed the legs shorter and it became our new tv cabinet. I’ve even drawn a heart on it and put in mine and my husbands initials to carry the theme.
Match tones and grains of wood instead of colours
Another reason my old school desk works so well is that the pine may not exactly match my sanded wood floor in colour but it has the same tone and grain as the maple wood floor. So as long as woods can compliment each- other it doesn’t matter if they are different. So look for woods that have the same grain size and warm or cool tones. Different examples of wooden sanded floors we have restored can be found here.
A light room lets the wood stand out individually
Another way to make different woods work together is use light paint on walls. Imagine a dark sanded wood floor with a medium wood table and dark walls. This just feels oppressive and dungeon like, but a big light room will separate the tones of the wood and let each item of furniture stand out individually and stop them merging together into a dark and sombre mood.
Its all about you…
And finally and most importantly- think about whether you like it! There’s no point in trying to create the latest must have look if it doesn’t represent and match your style. So shop around and try what you like then go with what feels right. After all, its YOU that has to live with it.🌳❤️🌾
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