Dark floors: an original touch in the interior

Dark floors are able to make the interior more stylish, they well emphasize light products, various decorative elements. This floor - a very original touch in the design. He does not make the room more gloomy, but gives it chic. Similar options are chosen today for both modern interiors and classics.

The dark floor is not necessarily brown or black, the coating may be greenish, bluish, maroon. Dark surfaces have certain advantages: they are less soiled, they can be called universal. At the same time, various small defects and dust are clearly visible on dark flooring.

Selecting a dark floor, you need to think about how it will be combined with the doors. There are several common options:

Combine dark doors and dark flooring should be as careful as possible. The room should not be too dark, otherwise it will seem gloomy.

Options may be as follows:

• To a dark brown door or wenge, on which there are golden or black patterns, you can choose the same floor covering if the carpet and various products in the room are light.
• The door of dark gray color will be well combined with a brown, grayish floor covering and light, white wallpaper.
• If the doors are similar in color to bitter chocolate, they are well suited for the dark brown floor and beige walls. By the light brown doors you can choose any floor covering.
• The floor is dark brown, light burgundy walls can be combined with black doors. A good option for a small room is glass doors with a black frame.

The following combinations of light doors and dark floor are possible:

• Black or grayish flooring and gray doors. Wallpapers should be rich in color or not very prominent.
• The brown floor will look good if the door is beige.
• The combination that can be attributed to the classics is the dark floor and the white color of the doors.

Bright doors will attract attention, they will be a wonderful accent.

The following options are possible:

• Doors in blue can be combined with gray or brownish flooring.
• Green doors are combined with dark brown, black floor and beige, reddish walls.
• Ruby, maroon, and scarlet doors can be purchased for a room with black flooring and walls in a light beige tone.

On the walls can be like plaster, and simple wallpaper, but in color they must be in harmony with the floor.

When choosing a floor covering, try to imagine how it will be combined with other surfaces:

• Dark. The walls are brown, grayish, cobalt in color, wallpapers with a large dark ornament can be combined with a floor covering that differs from wallpaper by several tones, white baseboard and light doors.In a room in which there are no windows or in a small apartment you should not make the floor and walls of the same color.
• Light. Patterns, ornaments on wallpaper, walls of pastel, yellowish, white, beige shades are in harmony with a variety of floor coverings. In such cases, the tones are perfectly balanced.

The color of the baseboard should be in harmony with the floor and walls. It can be the same color with the floor, merge with it. This design is suitable for rooms where the floor is not an accent, as well as for rooms in which the door is color-matched with the floor covering and other elements of the interior.

White, bright, bright baseboards are suitable for bright rooms in general. They clearly separate the planes in the room. Skirting boards that are darker than floor coverings - clear boundaries between surfaces. For brown or gray flooring, you can choose a brownish, black baseboard.

The shade of the tables, beds and other furniture also plays an important role in choosing the color of the floor. Matte tile, wood, parquet, laminate coatings are suitable in cases where the surface is glossy.Paint, gloss on the floor - a good choice if the facades are matte.

Options:

• Light. Standard light furniture can be combined with any floor coverings. If the floor is dark brown, you should stop the choice on white pieces of furniture. For a room with a floor of graphite, brown or gray, it is better to choose products in the color of light wood, pale pink, beige tones.
• Dark. Furniture in bluish or gray can be chosen for rooms with a brown floor. If it is black, the colors are wenge, brownish, graphite. With dark red or black furniture will be well combined with a dark gray floor.

Choosing a dark floor, you will need to decide on a shade. There are many tones of flooring today. Of course, much depends on the taste of the owner of the apartment, but you should also take into account the various nuances, so it turns out to achieve harmony in the interior:

• The black. You can choose such a floor if you want to make the interior of the bedroom, living room more solid. Black "dilute" the interior, decorated in white, it will make it more interesting. Such floor will be suitable for color walls, beige, brown, golden wall-paper.Light doors, white or black baseboards are well combined with black flooring.

• Gray. This is a fairly neutral shade for the floor. You can choose a ceiling of the same color. Such flooring suitable for loft, country, sea style.
• Brown. This color creates indoor comfort. Most often it is chosen for living rooms, bedrooms, but it can be suitable for any kind of room. This is the perfect option for a rustic chalet style.
• Blue. This color is soothing. Such floors are quite common. The blue flooring is suitable for a room with a door in black or white.
• Green. A grass-like floor is an accent; it attracts the eye. For this reason, it is better to furnish a room with green flooring with sufficiently neutral furniture that will not attract attention to itself.

Dark flooring is particularly well suited for a number of specific styles.

It can help create the right atmosphere:

• For modern styles, you can choose gray, bluish tones, parquet, dark brown laminate, dark tile. For the classics are well suited parquet, laminate, bog oak, wenge.Door, baseboard should be combined with the walls, various products that are in the room.

• Ideal options for a loft - dark brown, greyish, black colors.
• If the room is decorated in the English style, you can stop the choice of mahogany, black or brown flooring. The floor can be decorated with a beautiful carpet, at the edges of which there is a fringe.

Dark floor can look good in any room. It is only important to correctly combine the flooring with other surfaces and take into account the characteristics of the room:

Any dark tile is suitable for such a room, however, it is worth noting that it should not be slippery. Often choose gray, brown tones. Black flooring is suitable if other surfaces are light or striped.

In the hallways are usually not enough natural light, in addition, they are often polluted. For such a room you can buy tiles of porcelain, laminate, which is resistant to moisture. Ceiling and walls should be light.

This room is a small “kingdom” of a child, it should be distinguished by maximum convenience, comfort, safety. For such a room, you should choose a moisture-resistant, sufficiently soft floor covering. The floor should not be slippery, because children are usually very mobile - they can accelerate and fall. Suitable floor of wood and carpet on it, as well as carpet, laminate, which is resistant to the effects of liquids. It is better to choose a brown color.

The glossy floor (tile) will be well combined with matte surfaces; under white furniture you can choose tiles of black color. Good options - tile, imitating a wooden surface, brown shade linoleum.

It is necessary to choose colors that are in harmony with the furniture and various decorative elements in the room. The options can be very different, it all depends on your artistic sense.

The living room looks good carpet, laminate surfaces, flooring. If the room is small, black floor is better not to do.

The dark green flooring looks very beautiful.This is a particularly good option for a living room in a classic style.

An example of how the dark floor remarkably "dilutes" the bright interior.

The space in the studio apartment can be zoned using different floor and wall coverings. The tile in the kitchen area blends very well with the dark floor in the living room. A very interesting option for a room designed in a loft style.

Dark floor - ideal for the English classics. Fireplace gives the room a special comfort.

To learn how to decorate the interior with the help of a dark floor, see the following video.