Wood Floor Blog

Browsing through some of the home style mags can really get your imagination going, especially when these well-designed rooms work with their contents so well. However, if you don’t get the decor right in the first place, any addition to your room won’t work to the best of its ability.

House & Home, the Canadian style magazine, has a great gallery of contemporary rooms that make use of both old and new to create interest in a home. What stands out the most is the type of flooring used in each room, something which has a deciding effect on a room’s overall aesthetic and spatial quality.

There are so many different types of wood flooring that can make a difference to your home, each with its own texture, colour tone and feel. Here are a few different types of hardwood floor and what makes them work so well with the rest of the room.

Bevelled Flooring

Bevelled wood floors have a small v-groove between each plank, giving the wood a rustic more akin to traditional, age-old wood floors. Oak is a great material for this, especially in a rustic grade, and will definitely stand out in whatever environment you place your wood floor. In this modern kitchen, the rustic bevelled wood flooring contrasts the neutral kitchen walls, avoiding the clinical feel that flooring tiles may suggest. In order to add depth to the room, the wood ceiling mimics the floor’s rustic feel but at the same time adds interest by placing the staves horizontally across the room.

Square-edged Flooring

In this more familiar, conservative setting, the hardwood floor this time plays a more subdued role, merely complementing the striking rough-cut oak doorway, suggesting the door has been ripped away. To bring a sense of harmony into the room, this lacquered floor is a balance of colour between the white walls and the deep, tan-brown colour of the doorway.

Long, thin staves

Thin-stave boards can add loads of space into your room, especially where the ceiling is quite high – you get that sense of expansion. The blue lighting really works well with the dark brown wood floor and still retains its warm character.

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