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Rooms with different color wood floors.
It may seem counterintuitive but when mixing wood tones contrast is your friend.
They define different areas of the home.
Out of 222 963 living rooms analyzed 72 75 of living rooms have hardwood floor.
They are on different levels so there is a clear place to stop one and start the other.
To help us uncover the hardwood floor color trends that reigned supreme in 2019 we spoke with 14.
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.
Lay both floors in a herringbone or chevron pattern.
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.
Maybe this means that your living room floor is a deep dark wood color but your dining room can be a shade lighter that is different but that still complements the living room shade.
If you do have different colors of wood in adjoining rooms add a border to each room in the color of the other room s floor.
Coordinating floors on the other hand is different.
The key is to match the color of the floor with the entryway as one flows into the other.
This makes the contrast look deliberate and smooths the transition.
Would that possibly be a show stopper for a buyer.
Out of that 72 75 of living rooms using hardwood flooring the most common color or tone of hardwood is medium tone.
You can simply separate them using wooden borders or t moldings in the thresholds of the doors.
At the border stagger the two woods so they mix for one to three rows.
Here s our huge gallery.
If you want to install different wood grain floors in adjacent rooms it can be easy to do so.
While trends like linoleum and shag carpet eek went out of style as quickly as they came into it hardwood flooring has for centuries been a failsafe choice for any and every aesthetic.
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.
We have charts and tables below the gallery providing all the living room floor data you need.
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.