Wood Flooring Buyer's Guide
Photos courtesy of Armstrong Flooring - www.armstrong.com
The color you choose for your ooring can have a dramatic impact on the appearance of your home. Most natural light-colored wood species are available in a wide variety of
shades and colors, whereas natural dark species have a much narrower spectrum to choose from. In the following images, you can see just how dramatically ooring colors
can change a room’s appearance.
Light Flooring Shades
Light ooring adds a more modern appearance to your home, and
visually imitates sandy soil. Light ooring can lighten dark rooms
by adding indirect reected illumination to the room’s low areas.
As you would expect, light ooring matches best with light decor,
but the two-tone approach is also visually appealing.
Medium Flooring Shades
Medium shaded ooring is the traditional style, and the majority of
ooring types are available in these tones and colors. Most
medium shades have a yellow or red cast to the nish, which
adds a visual richness and warm tones to the room. Overall this
shade tends to be the best choice for eclectic decor.
Dark Flooring Shades
Dark ooring offers a bold appearance, and can visually darken
dramatically bright rooms. Dark ooring adds visual weight to the
room and mutes overbright colors due to its limited reectivity.
Visually, it gives the appearance of rich, dark soil, and it is
matched best with other earthy tones.
shade and color