Matching Paint Colors Wood Floors

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Matching paint colors wood floors.

You will not get exact but get as close as you can to color and shade and use it when choosing a paint color for the space. If your floors have warm undertones you can go for cream or yellow shades or something bolder like a red clay color. Beige tan and ivory work great with light and dark shades of wood. Reds yellows and oranges are considered warm color tones.

This will help to remind you of the need to think of your wood tones as a color and to identify the shade of your wood. Grey wood look flooring. If your floors have cool ashy undertones yellow or orange walls would look out of place but cool blues and greens would pair well with your floors. Just make sure you match the wall and floor color undertones.

Notice the wood floors are a contrasting color to the trim. Go to the paint store and match a paint color card to your wood features in the space. Pairing dark walls with light floors can make a dramatic statement but the undertones must be harmonious. Pair a golden floor with a red wall or a floor with red undertones with a yellow wall.

Greens blues and purples are considered cool color tones. As with the warm to cool mix colour schemes opt for medium bright to dark cool colours if your light wood floor has warm undertones. Here is mesa verde tan ac 33 by benjamin moore. The contrast is nice with the trim while the darker colors are highlighted again in the rug.

Choose wood and wall colors next to each other or close to each other on the color wheel. A popular example is using a aqua blue paint for your walls combined with orange toned hardwoods. Avoid darker variations of brown and yellow as they can be too much of a contrast from your floors causing a clash.