Furniture and Flooring Matching Ideas for Your Home
Interior design is a lot of hard work, although neglected by some people, and not everyone is born a natural interior designer. However, this does not mean you cannot learn to become a master of mixing and matching styles, colour palettes, textures, patterns, and designs. It doesn’t take a lot more than a few professional tips and ideas to help you unleash your creativity and create an interior to be proud of that will bring you a lot of comfort and joy. When thinking of the interior of your home, aesthetics is definitely not the only aspect you should consider. Think also of functionality, safety, and comfort and how each element and feature of the room can contribute to achieving them.
One of the major aspects of the interior design of your home, no matter if you are going through a renovation project or you are designing a new house, is definitely how to properly match your furniture to your flooring. With the vast range of flooring options as well as furniture style options, it is an understandable way you may feel overwhelmed. Worry not, because today we will help you navigate through this world and probably make the best choices for your project. Matching furniture to your flooring is easier than you would think, simply make sure to follow some of the professional tips below.
Don’t Stick to One Colour Only
It may be the safest way to match the shades of your furniture to the floor to the tiniest tee. However, it is not the most exciting approach and it doesn’t work for many domestic settings. You may hear some interior design myths that sticking to one colour scheme, even to one shade entirely, is the best way to approach the project. However, in reality echoing the same shade of wood, for example, throughout the entire room is pretty overwhelming and may not look really that great. If you still want to stick to one shade or similar ones, you better play around with different textures or finishes that will give this exciting twist of contrast and add more liveliness to the space. For example, a dark mahogany floor does not necessarily mean that you have to go for the same dark shade for your furniture pieces too. Using the same colour or shade throughout the space can make the whole room feel pretty overwhelming and even too heavy. Therefore, when it comes to the furniture pieces, make sure to choose slightly lighter or slightly darker shades than the colour of the existing floor. Slight contrasts are always encouraging and, in fact, the safest choice. However, if you don’t want to create an interior that stands out too much, make sure you are not playing around with more than three shades or finishes in the room.
Work with Corresponding Colours
Choosing the right colour scheme for the room may be different. You may be confused about what colour works the best with what other colours, or how to not create a distracting contrast. The first thing you want to do in this case is consider the undertone of your floor. For example, most of the real wood, laminate, or luxury vinyl floors will come either with warm undertones of yellow, orange, and brown, or cooler undertones such as grey, blue, and green. Once you find the exact undertone of the floor, it will be easier for you to choose the right colours to harmonise with the rest of the room and furniture pieces. For example, warm undertones of your floor will go best with other warm undertones and shades of your furniture pieces. The same goes for cool undertones too. You are not bound to stick to one colour scheme but always pay attention to the undertones and make sure to match them.
Go with the Grade
When it comes to wooden flooring and choosing the right furniture pieces to match it, another thing to consider is the floor’s grade. Engineered wood and solid wood floors are often categorized into four different grades. While the grade will not say much about the quality of the floor, it determines the level of its natural pattern including knots, swirls, sap, etc. The less natural pattern the floor has, it is categorized as a higher grade, such as prime or select. Wooden floors with a lot of natural patterns are called rustic and they have a lot of character and unique appearance. When applied to match with the right furniture pieces, you want to match the grades of both wooden elements of the interior. For example, rustic floors look good with rustic wood furniture pieces, the same with the rest of the floor grades. This will create a cohesive look that won’t make the room appear too busy and overwhelming.
Separate the Wood
Specialists recommend that to achieve a room interior that is not too busy, loud, and overwhelming, you need to consider how you use wood and how to blend out the wooden surfaces properly into space. This is why you are recommended to separate the wooden pieces and surfaces as much as you can and break up the number of wooden surfaces in the room. Don’t have too many wooden surfaces and pieces interacting and cluttered at one spot. You can create some buffer zones of contrast throughout the room by using different sorts of decoration and interior pieces, including rugs, and furniture from materials and textures different to wood. Get creative with accessories and use an accent colour different from the shade of wood to avoid having a very bland room lacking strong features and accents.