Wall & Floor Color Combo Questions To Consider 

What surfaces take up the most space in your home or business? The walls and floors of course! These surfaces are the building blocks on which to base your room designs and color palettes. Since hardwood floors of every style and color are currently extremely popular, let’s focus on what homeowners should consider when trying to create an eye-pleasing color combo. 

Let’s explore questions to consider when choosing among the myriad of color combinations that work well together on your floors and walls.

Hardwood Flooring Colors 

While it may be hard to believe, hardwood floors can come in a huge assortment of color stains including tan, natural, gray, brown, black, and even red and orange. In fact, the number of hues that floors can be stained is downright overwhelming, especially given the fact that after making that decision, you will still need to decide on a wall and ceiling color. 

There are no true rules for how to mix and match your flooring color with your walls and ceiling but there are some things that every homeowner will want to consider. 

The Color Tone of the Floor

Are your hardwood floors warm or cool-toned? One of the best ways to determine which tone your floors are is to hold a piece of white paper up next to them. Cool-toned stains show up next to a white hue as bluish or purple whereas warm-toned hardwood shows off the undertones of red, yellow and orange. 

While you can match your warm-toned flooring color with a warm-toned wall color, many color experts believe that it is best to have contrast and use a warm flooring color with a cool wall and or ceiling color. The opposite is also true. 

The Color Depth Question 

In addition to determining whether you want your floors and walls to match or contrast in color tone, you will also want to know whether your floors should be a different color depth and darkness than the walls. 

Color experts often argue about having floors and walls too closely aligned in the depth of color. While they agree that a contrasting depth of color on the floors and walls is necessary, they disagree on how far apart they should be. For instance, some color experts believe that the wall color should be at least 3 shades lighter than the floors. However, there is room for debate. 

For your situation, you may enjoy light-colored hardwood flooring and a deep wall color or vice versa. Our suggestion to homeowners is to test out the colors on the floor and walls by designing a color board to see how it will look in combination. 

Benjamin Moore offers a Personal Color Preview on its site to take a peek before the wood is laid down or walls are even touched with a brush or roller. 

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