When coloring rooms with hardwood draw lines indicating the direction the hardwood will be installed.
Mixing marble and wood floors.
For example if your wish is to mix marble tiles with wood floors make sure you re not also mixing different wood types or different marble types.
Create a drawing or make a copy of your floor plan and use different colors to outline each type of flooring.
When it comes to covering a large living space stick with the same type of flooring.
An idea to help you determine if you are mixing the right amount of floor coverings is to go back to kindergarten and color.
If you have wood floors this would be your dominant wood tone.
Otherwise pick the largest furniture piece in the room.
Including floor tiles wall panelling closet doors entertainment walls kitchen backsplash shower enclosures a bedroom headboard feature wall and a marble dressing table.
While mixing wood tones is perfectly acceptable and in fact encouraged it always helps to pick a dominant wood tone as a starting point to help you choose other pieces to bring in the room.
From light to dark and shades of.
Mixing in other hard surfaces like marble metal granite mirrors and glass can have a similar effect.
Consumers think everything has to match but the pros mix says laura dalzell owner and president of cabinets designs inc.
Design style leaders nix the match too boring in favor of mixing colors wood grains stains and textures throughout a room.
The larger the space the wider the planks should be to keep the seams at a minimum.
Sophisticated decor combinations using marble and wood tone.
If you have light wood floors and a dark wood table a bright area rug serve as a natural transition.
Using the same two types of flooring in the appropriate spaces will add continuity to your home.