Do you ever think about the floors in your homes? Maybe if they are worn out, or maybe about the sad plastic carpets from the 80s. You often become homesick and so do I. But I became aware after we started shooting for Alma House in my living room. I wanted to hide my parquet floor with carpets so that it wouldn’t be visible and realized that I couldn’t stand the color.
I think the floor should obviously harmonize with the rest of the interior, and yellow parquet rarely does.
One of my readers recently got in touch. She had noticed that many of my blog photos feature dark wood floors, which inspired her to go for a dark floor herself. It’s hardly a coincidence that I use photos with dark floors. I simply like it.
Oak parquet flooring, which is usually the case, is a hard material that is very durable, and that’s good. But what you get in return, the yellowed wood, so who knows if I don’t prefer some other type of wood, even if it’s not as hardy as oak.
I am far from being a specialist in different floor treatments, you have to ask the experts about that. For those of us who are tired of the boring parquet floors, there are several alternatives. All you have to do is get a sander and get started or hire out the job to a flooring company that now has machines that take care of the construction dust. Then it’s time to varnish, oil or paint the floor in the color you like. I can’t say that it’s heaven with the dark floors, some dirt becomes very visible. The same goes for the white ones of course. The yellow parquet wins there, which is better at camouflaging dust rats and various other things.
You don’t see much of the gray-brown floor, but it’s bold to have a dark sofa and gray walls. Most people choose to combine it with white.
Medium brown plank parquet looks so nice together with white.
One bathroom also has a brown wooden floor (wet room treated, of course) which gives a soft and warm impression. You don’t have to have tiles.
A little darker and shinier looks good in white kitchens.
A real cozy corner. A compliment to the interior designer who is not afraid of dark walls combined with dark floors. It is the turquoise velvet armchair that balances it out.
Stylish and on the safe side, combined with white.
Of course, it works with mole-colored walls when there are touches of white.
Finally, we have the master Ralph Lauren who does as he pleases and always with a sure hand. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a completely white room in his collections. Black and black sounds a bit gloomy but with white walls and gold accessories, that problem is solved.
Here you only see a patch of a dark floor, but you have to think about the whole thing. The room and its four-poster bed are typical of the colonial style. Read more about that style here: Colonial It was the English who brought the style to Europe. I would think that in the tropics there are only dark woods. How lucky they are if you ignore what is happening there.
The deforestation of the rainforest is a gigantic problem. Then it is better to sand the oak and imitate with dark pigment colors.
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