Winter Wood Flooring Trends

With the days getting shorter and the weather getting colder, we dream of cosy and warm days and evenings spent at home. However, is your home winter-ready? Do you feel it cosy, warm, and welcoming enough to spend some quality time with your loved ones under the roof of your nest? If you are not happy with the way your home feels and looks, maybe it is time to consider some changes and start the new upcoming year happy and satisfied with how your home looks.

Well, it is the season of hassle and holiday stress and a home renovation project is the last thing you can think of right now. However, you have enough time until the holiday season to prepare your home for all the upcoming days spent inside and all the family gatherings. Something as small as changing your floor or decorating it can make so much of a difference and set your house in the right mood. Also, there is the opportunity to get a good holiday season discount or even leave the clothes and cosmetics Black Friday shopping for another time and shop for some high-quality and beautiful wooden flooring.

Hottest Wood Flooring Trends This Winter

A new wooden floor is a great place to start a home renovation project even if you are limited with time or budget. As already mentioned, a new wooden floor in the living room or the kitchen, or anywhere in the house really, can make so much difference and contribute so much to a beautiful setting and a cosy, attractive, warm, and welcoming atmosphere.

Wood flooring, itself, no matter if it comes to engineered, solid wood, parquet, or what are wood species of your choice, is a classic winter flooring trend and this year makes no exception. The natural material wood is the best choice you can think of when envisioning a cosy and welcoming living room with a fire cracking in the fireplace and a beautiful Christmas tree with colourful ornaments in the corner of the room. Wood flooring is the ultimate epitome of a winter-appropriate flooring choice not because of its amazing appearance that brings in a lot of cosiness, warmth, elegance, beauty, and a homey feel to every space, but also because of the comfort and functionality it ensures.

Durable and functional, real wood flooring is a sturdy and solid base, a hard-wearing and long-lasting product, a flooring choice that ensures great insulation and requires low maintenance for those cold days you just want to spend inside resting and enjoying the family life. You don’t have to worry about your wooden floor because it is strong, solid, and hard-wearing. Invest into a new one this year or make sure to have some professional treatment and rejuvenating of your already existing one and you will enjoy the holiday season while the kids are playing with the family dog inside the house and you are not worrying about scratches, stains, and dents. Also, a new or renovated wooden floor will not be creaky and noisy and Santa Claus can leave all presents under the tree without waking the kids up.

While we believe that every wooden floor has its unique beauty, elegance, and distinctive style, we have gathered here today to explore a bit more about the current winter wood flooring trends. So let’s do it!

Warmth is Always In

That is right, there is nothing more current and loved by anyone than warmth in the wintertime. You can achieve a feeling and atmosphere of warmth thanks to the way a real wood floor looks. The natural palette, the beautiful texture, the natural pattern, and all these wood flooring features will contribute to a more homey and cosy feeling. However, when we say warmth, we think a bit beyond just simply looks and designs. We mean it literary, we think of underfloor heating. If you are considering an underfloor heating system installed in your home to keep your fee toasty hot all winter long, you already know that the best way to ensure complete safety, long-lasting power, and functionality for an underfloor heating system is to use engineered wood flooring on top of it. Thanks to its advanced structure of crisscrossed layers, engineered wood floorboards are very hard-wearing and prone to heat and temperature fluctuations. Engineered wood flooring is a very flexible choice in the sense that it can be installed over anything and everything. Therefore, it is a good match with an underfloor heating system too.

Go Dark or Go Home

Naturally, wintertime is associated with darker, more natural and earthy colours. Of course, such a classic trend is well represented in the interior design too and wooden flooring is no exception here. Whether it comes to naturally dark and dramatic wood species such as mahogany or cherry, or wood floors that are darkened and deepened in colour by professionals, it doesn’t matter because both alternatives leave you with a dark, beautiful, very elegant and stylish wooden floor to enjoy at home this winter. Darker colours appear to add a lot of cosiness and warmth to every home. You can either install the dark, chocolaty tones throughout your whole house and enjoy the uniform, dramatic effect. Alternatively, you can use wood species such as walnut or chocolate-stained oak just in one room and make it work as a statement piece of the entire house. However, keep in mind that dark colours will make the room appear smaller, therefore choose the darker colour scheme for more spacious rooms of the house.

The Classic Beauty of Parquet Flooring 

If you truly appreciate the beauty of the wooden floor blocks cut geometrically and arranged in elegant and intriguing patterns that look more like a piece of art rather than just a wooden floor… well, you will be happy to find out that parquet flooring is still very much in this wintertime. Parquet flooring never goes out of style.

It is a classic, elegant, very stylish and very unique choice for every house and besides adding a lot to the interior design of every room, parquet flooring also ensures as much functionality, durability, and low maintenance requirements as any other real wood floor. While the old-school way of installing parquet involves a lot of craftsmanship, some challenges, and plenty of time and money to finish such a project, manufacturers respond to the high demand for parquet flooring with the newest and most advanced engineered wood alternative. This pretty much means that you don’t have to worry about fitting down the wooden blocks in a complex pattern, which is sort of rocket science because the engineered wood parquetry option comes with a pre-fitted on a larger engineered wood board parquet pattern that can be installed over underfloor heating and all sorts of subfloors. Pretty amazing, right?

Section Space

One of the rapidly going wood flooring and interior design trends this winter involves sectioning the entire house with the help of different wood floors. Especially if you have an open concept home, you can easily create different areas of the space without closing it up with doors, etc. just with the help of wood flooring. Now, if you are an interior design mastermind, we encourage you to play around with different wood flooring styles, designs, patterns, colours, textures, finishes, and wooden species. But for the majority of the people, all we know about interior design is that white goes with black.

Therefore, we are not that bold and willing to make major experiments. In this case, you can still implement the trend in your home but it's a low-key variant. Use the same colour of the wood floor throughout the whole house, but maybe focus on experimenting with the finish, or the texture. Or maybe you can try a herringbone parquet pattern here, and add up a bit of chevron parquet pattern there. And if you are that bold, try using the trend in one single room. As an example, you can easily frame the room with a darker colour of wood flooring and leave the centre in a lighter colour, or for the dining room, you can make the dining table the focal point of the space by having a different colour of wooden floor installed just right under the table.

Wide Planks

We don’t know what it is about all the buzz around wide plank wood flooring, but it is definitely in and the trend has no intention of leaving the scene anytime soon. Especially this wintertime. It is easy to see how wide plank wood flooring easily fits into the mould of a perfect, cosy floor. The wide planks are always associated with farmhouses and similar places that always have a very laid back, relaxed, cosy atmosphere and if you want to bring that into your home too, make sure to go for wide planks with your new wooden floor. One more bonus of the wide planks is that they will make every room appear more spacious.