What Paint Color Goes Best With Dark Wood Floors
Notice the wood floors are a contrasting color to the trim.
What paint color goes best with dark wood floors. Https blogs images forbes com houzz files 2014 04 beach style living room. For instance pair grayish or black wood floors with pale weathered woods and pair warm rich floors like the ones shown here with warm medium- to light-toned woods like cherry or maple. The warmth of the wood floor gives contrast to the otherwise neutral color palette.
Here are some of my favorites. As mentioned before you can choose a stark cool white or a warmer off-white or even ivory or cream. Benjamin Moore Grays and Greiges for dark hardwood Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter.
Dark-Toned Wood Look Flooring. Bluish grays flatter mahogany by accentuating its depth while greenish grays enhance walnut trim. Your wood color and shade blends in and there is no balance.
These ultra-dark wood floors are almost black and contrast beautifully with the white ceilings built-ins and fireplace. For more color you could choose the lightest shade of a color you like. Sherwin-Williams Misty SW 6232 Neutral paint often has undertones that give it a color cast which can work in your favor when trying to pair with yellow-toned wood floors.
With the dark wood it is important to not select anything too dark or the room can seem small and uninviting. Tin Lizzie is a soft medium-toned gray with a beautiful blue-green undertone that isnt very passive. To bridge the gap between the two colors are shades of silver and gray in the richly textured furniture.
Dark finishes such as mahogany walnut or cherry stand out in sharp relief against light colors such as a pale green or blue or a hue from the sunny side of the color wheel. To temper the ochre tones of your flooring try a gray paint color with a blue-leaning tint. Green is the contrasting color to red so its the natural choice to complement the rich tone of the cherry hardwood floor.