How to Decorate with Mixed Wood Floors

When decorating a room with mixed wood flooring, that contains different hues, you can use the contrasts and the designs to your advantage, making it easy to mix together decorative elements and furnishings to match.

Items Needed:
Paint
Wood
Chair railing
Floor molding
Crown molding
Wood furniture
Stain
Picture frames

Painting With Mixed Wood Floors
Pick a paint color scheme for the walls that will complement the depth of your multi-toned hardwood flooring. For example, a few different hues of a honey wood stain would be magnified with a light yellow or golden color that is within those shades.

Pick out a few different colors for a paint color scheme with greatly contrasting hardwood. For example, if the boards to alternating a dark cherry stain and a mahogany one, choose a deeper red and a deeper brown that complements them both to decorate with mixed wood flooring in a room.

Paint the walls in a similar pattern as the flooring. For example, put deep red and brown stripes on the bottom half of the wall and paint a solid version of the lighter of the two on the top half.

Choosing More Wood Elements to Match Two-Toned Hardwood Floors
Separate the wall with a chair railing that is stained in your favorite hue from the flooring. Put in floor molding and crown molding in one of the contrasting stain colors.

Choose wood furniture in different tones to place side by side in the room. For example, buy dining room table in the darker version of stain and alternate the chairs in the darker and lighter stains around it. To decorate existing furniture, either strip down and re-stain in a multi-toned affect or by decorative molding and stain it the opposite to attache to the front or sides of the pieces.

Alternate the frames for pictures on the walls in the different colors as well. The same goes for shelving, or any other wall decorations, when your decorating with with mixed wood floors throughout a space.

Tips: If you want to create a two-toned look on existing wood floors, use stains and paint. To read more on how to pain, stain, decorate and maintain your wood flooring click here "AC-Wood Floor" to find more great articles.