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 reected 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 reectivity.
Visually, it gives the appearance of rich, dark soil, and it is
matched best with other earthy tones.
shade and color