8 tips for choosing a floor color

One of the most difficult tasks to create an interior is not only beautiful, but also practical, and this will require a lot of knowledge. The color scheme of the room plays an important role in creating a comfortable space. Is it possible to choose the color of the floor taking into account the maximum number of factors on which not only the appearance of the premises, but also the indicators of living comfort depends? First of all, the flooring sets the basis for the interior, so their color should be combined and complement the beauty of the design as a whole.

In the article we will take a closer look at how to choose the color of the floor in combination with other elements of the interior - new or existing, on the design of individual rooms, but first you need to know the general rules.

Color for the floor: general recommendations

In the initial upcoming repair phase, it is necessary to highlight the desired result and the influence of other elements that will be present in the interior. The result of comparing all the details will be more than just their individual total amount. In order for each room to acquire a special personality, it is necessary to choose a floor covering not only for practical reasons, but also for your own preferences.

As for the recommendations, it is worth highlighting several options:

• Bright hues allow visually expand space and go well with other colors. But there are exceptions, for example, for the shade of white oak, colors such as chocolate, chestnut and red are not suitable.
• If the shade of the floor and doors are different, in which case it is desirable that the door coincided with shades of furniturelocated in the room.
• Thanks to the color combination gender or doors with skirting board You can harmoniously combine the interior composition or emphasize it.
• For northern and small rooms it is necessary to exclude the use of cold tones, they are more appropriate in spacious rooms with a high natural level of lighting.
• In combinations use no more than three colorsso as not to cause dissonance in the interior. This is one of the main rules to interior was not overloaded with color saturation. Combining more colors is a daunting task. Black, white, gray are considered monochrome and go well with all colors, the rest are called achromatic and can only be represented in a few shades. So there really are many options.
• Triangle rule - The colors in the interior should be present in different volumes and they are divided into three groups: main, accent and additional. You can take the color of the floor and walls as the main one, the ceiling in this case is usually white, the additional colors are furniture, and the accent colors are accessories, interior small details.

Features of different shades of floors

White floors Perfectly fit any style and interior of the room, it is associated with cleanliness and conciseness. White tones are unobtrusive and undoubtedly give the atmosphere lightness and spaciousness, make the room much brighter, this will compensate for the lack of natural light. White floors combined with green wallsand white with purple emphasize prestige. For creating classic style white floors and yellow walls, but brown the walls look strictly, as an option they can be used in the design of spacious living rooms.

Gray shades possess special plasticity always organically fit into any interior decisions giving a serene and elegant look. The combination of gray and blue can be used with bedroom decoration and cabinet, gray with orange can calm the activity of the nervous system, but combining with green is not recommended. Gray and violet look great, the "third is not superfluous" you can still add white tones to this combination, but gray should remain a priority. The female half chooses a combination of gray and pink, such a combination of “airiness”.

Yellow and beige. Bright yellow hues are used in contemporary design giving unusual and catchy. Soft and calm beige fits into any room due to its elegance and sophistication. Color data is similar natural wood and will always be in fashion. In combination with them, all colors of walls and ceilings can be used. If you need to expand the room, you should add white, and for the severity add brown.

Red - dominant and daring. IN red shades noble expensive wood in the interior looks catchy and gives an expensive exclusive look. The combination of red and blue is not recommended.

Brown. Often used when decorating rooms in country style, at the same time gives sophistication and rural simplicity, but this color is better to use if the room has a sufficient amount of natural or artificial.

Black shades It should be used quite carefully and carefully. With it, you can create a dynamic, ultramodern, bold design. Looks great in combination with gold elements.

Which color is the most practical?

Above in the article we examined the options for the color palette, but what color can be attributed to the most practical for each room separately.

• For the corridor good fit brick, terracotta tones or all possible shades natural wood. The best option may be a floor in a combination of several colors or floors, for example marbled. It is better to exclude dark and white, dust is well allocated on them, street dirt from shoes in rainy weather, which increase the complexity of cleaning such coatings.
• For the bedroom black and white colors are not recommended in terms of practicality. It should be taken into account that light dust is collected in the bedrooms on the floor, it will be less noticeable on clear varnish as a result, it is worth choosing not the color, but the finish.
• For the hall fit any colors since this room is less visited. More attention should be paid to design, cleaning in this room is not difficult.
• For the bathroom ideal colors will be blue and light blue on such coatings, drops from dried water will be less noticeable. Concerning decoration materials for the bathroom, it should be emphasized that in such rooms it is advisable to use moisture resistant materials.

Choosing a floor color for a perfect interior

In design solutions, there are tricky tricks that make it possible to breathe light and air into a small room, and add coziness and warmth to a spacious room with high ceilings.

The effect of combining the color of the floor of the walls and ceiling

Consider color options for living rooms, which may come in handy during repairs.

Dark flooring combined with bright walls and bright ceilings.

If you use a contrasting color scheme, the room will always look stylish and expressive, and the use of combinations of light shades with rich darks can hide the flaws and highlight the advantages of the room.

• low ceiling room

IN low ceilings it is better to use dark shades of walls, wallpapers with vertical stripes or patterned. Use thin if necessary skirting board to match the wall or, if possible, eliminate the presence of the baseboard. Ceiling - light, a flooron the contrary dark. Due to the verticals, the space seems to “stretch out” on the walls, and the light ceiling against them looks soaring. The dark color of the floor creates the depth of space.

• narrow room with low ceilings

In this case, the same technique is used, as described in the previous version, but it is worth supplementing with the contrasting light color of one wall, thus visually shortening the elongated room. If the room is present window, it can be issued light curtains to the floor using the ceiling cornice, such a decision will make the room visually taller.

Important. With dark walls and a dark floor, the furniture is better to choose light colors, and decor elements are bright. Such tricks will add volume. If you want to "push" the room visually, then sofa or bed set across.

Dark floor combined with dark walls and bright ceiling

When using different shades of the same color scheme, any room will look harmonious and traditional. For fans of a monotonous lifestyle or classic to their liking, colors are suitable dark chocolate for the floor, cocoa for walls and milk for the ceiling. A soft stretch from dark to light will bring harmony and peace and it is worth emphasizing that such a combination is suitable for any room, whether it be a bedroom, a guest room or a corridor. This range can be supplemented with contrasting skirting boards, doors, cornices in white, dark brown or black. Furniture and accessories are chosen at personal discretion and preference, but based on the warm saturation of the walls and ceiling.

Dark flooring combined with light walls and a light ceiling

When choosing dark flooring for small low ceiling rooms Do not be afraid that this combination will reduce the height. You can just use light shades for walls, ceilings, curtains, as well as additional elements - skirting boards, platbands, cornices. Regarding furniture, it is not recommended to clutter up large quantities with rich texture and color. On the floor you can lay a light small matand interior items choose a laconic form with elegant lines.

Dark flooring combined with light walls and a dark ceiling

This color scheme, oddly enough, is suitable for rooms with high ceilings and low. Main rule thing is the color of the floor and ceiling should be the opposite of the color of the walls and remember that cold shades can visually alienate, and warm shades bring objects and surfaces closer. If a room with low ceilings need to be constructed two level ceiling, paint the base level in a dark cool color, and make the suspended level light. This option will visually raise and deepen the low ceiling, and light walls will expand the space.

Variants of visualization of rooms using shade comparisons:

• Dark floor with pale walls and ceiling. will expand the room.
• Dark floor with dark ceiling will expand the room and reduce the height of the ceiling.
• Dark walls with bright floors and ceilings. emphasizes the horizontal lines of the room.
• Bright floor, ceiling and one wall (rear): the room will become deeper, higher and narrower.
• Dark back wall and light side on the contrary reduce the depth of the room.
• A light ceiling, dark floor and dark walls will create basement effectwhen the light will be only on you.
• A light floor, a light back wall, dark side walls and a dark ceiling will create tunnel effect
• The room is dark in color will lose its shape.
• Light floors and light walls create space effectbut a large amount of light tone will make the room cold and faceless.

How to add space

Many are faced with such a problem as the small size of the rooms, in order to visually increase the space you can use lighter and colder shades for the floor and walls, due to this the room will become larger than it actually is. But the dark and warm shades will make the room smaller, but more comfortable. When choosing flooring such as parquet board and laminate it is worth paying attention to the collections in which V-bevels. This will create a room depth effect, and to enhance the effect laying such flooring worth producing along the propagation of light. Another important point is skirting board color selection. Increase floor area A skirting board of the same color as the floor covering itself will help. But the opposite is also true, if the baseboard matches the color of the walls, then the floor area will seem smaller.

Sex color and personality type

Scientifically proven that color affects the psychological state of a person. This is important because we spend most of our lives indoors.

• Red color able to cause anxiety and becomes the cause of heart palpitations. Under the influence of red, a person can become aggressive. This color is not recommended in bedrooms, children's rooms and kitchens, but in living rooms it will look great, but not in large quantities.
• Floor yellow shades will charge with active energy without anxiety and aggression, it stimulates brain activity. Ideal for the office and in the nurseries.
• In limited quantities purple and blue, with a long stay in a room with a color of this category can cause depression.
• Friendly color is considered green. It should be made basic in the design of the room and depending on the shade, then choose the floor color.

It is always necessary to strive to have color balance, and gender plays an important role in it, but do not forget about human psychology. It is worth paying attention to the recommendations of doctors as people have different temperaments, each type perceives a particular color differently:

• Choleric pay attention to the orange colors, but for phlegmatic such a choice will be depressing; green tones will suit them.
• Sanguine shades of light green or yellow are suitable for walls in combination with a light floor, and melancholy recommend light blue walls and brown floors.

 

Floor color depending on the style of design

It is important to understand how to choose the right floor color for wall decoration or furniture and doors, you need to think through all possible combinations and make the choice in favor of the most spectacular of them. It is worth familiarizing yourself with the trends of a particular style, this will help to make the right choice and put knowledge into practice.

Decide on the design for your interior should be at the preparatory stage of the repair. This will help to greatly simplify the task and choose the color of the floor finish in accordance with the style groups.

National style

• Mediterranean style light and simple, without elements of luxury, floors are not catchy colors, you can use light wood tones, such as bleached oak, ivory oak, ash wood.
  
• Scandinavian style - This is naturalness, restraint using natural materials, exclusively wooden floors in neutral colors.
  
• English style attractive classic forms, aristocracy with the use of expensive wood species such as wenge, rosewood, birch, in combination with wooden cornices and panels in dark colors.
  
• French - provincial style, olive, yellow, lavender colors of the walls and terracotta, sand flooring or natural unprocessed solid board are preferred.
  
• African style brightness of details, exotic shapes, dark shades of floors and a rough texture.
• Japanese style - discreet, floors are light or dark colors.

Historical style

This stylization of a certain direction: Empire, baroque, byzantine, gothic, classicism, renaissance, rococo, etc. When interior decoration in any of the selected areas involves the use of expensive elements, including the finish of the floor should be made of expensive wood or ceramic tiles. Floor color and of doors it is desirable to choose in one color scheme, light colors are preferred. For example, in antique style, marble tiles or mosaic, and in the Renaissance style several colors are used at once, which traditionally include gold, red, burgundy, green.

Contemporary style

• Minimalism – these are direct geometric shapes, the predominant colors are white, black, gray in combination with low furniture and smooth monophonic floor.
• Style loft combines large spaces with the use of industrial interior details, the floors in this case can be any in color and texture.
• Kitsch - bright, flashy colors, floors in this style can be unpredictable in color and from any material.
• Art deco Is a style for refined furniture and decorative elements. The walls and floor are unobtrusive pastel, soft colors.

The combination of flooring with interior elements

Combination of floor with door

There are no clear boundaries, but the best option would be door color selection a few tones lighter or darker than the floor.

There are several options for combining floor and door.

• Similarity of colors. The most profitable option, which will create the illusion of a unification of space. For example, if you chose bright doors and a floor, this way a small room will visually become more spacious. In this option, you can experiment with possible textures.

• "Game" of one color. This option will create a sense of harmony and is considered simple, but at the same time refined. When combining the main color and its shades, you can get both dark and light, pastel combinations.

• Complementary combination. When combining different colors, the selected elements become catchy and give the interior a dynamic atmosphere. It is worth recalling that dark shades can create the effect of reducing space, for premises with a small area it is better not to use, in this case it is better to pay attention to calm tones, for example peach and blue.

• Dark doors in conjunction with the floor is a few tones lighter can look contrasting, wearying your eyes, with the help of a skirting board in tone with the doors can visually smooth out the flaw.

• Light doors and dark the floor looks particularly elegant, in this combination the interior looks stylish and respectable. Bright doors add spaciousness and lightness, and dark floors give a feeling of strength and reliability.

• Dark doors and bright floorA strict and elegant combination. In this case, the dark door becomes the main element, it is the door that forms the effect of that very elegance and makes the atmosphere of the room unique and cozy.

• White doors and pastel shades of the floor fill the space with warm emotions, tenderness and a cozy atmosphere.

• White doors gray floor, harmonious and monochromatic combination, fits any interior and shows itself from the best side.If the windows in the room face north, it will be appropriate to use milk, cream, cream shades.
• White doors and brown floor, festive, elegant combination of white and brown will bring an orderly and light appearance to the room.

The combination of floor and furniture

According to the recommendations of professionals, several room design options can be distinguished:

• White floor - dark furniture;
• Natural wood flooring – light furniture or chocolate. Bright colors are better not to choose;
• Dark color flooring - pastel color furniture.
• maybe a combination of dark floor and dark furniturebut they will look very unusual.

Important. Furniture should not have more than three colors, otherwise the room will turn into a children's playroom.

The combination of floor with walls and ceiling

The general perception of the design of the room depends on well-chosen combinations of floor and walls. In rooms like kitchen-living room, you can use different finishes that combine space.

• White walls and white floor. Such an interior reflects calm and is good in that when changing textiles and accessories you can radically change the style of the interiorhis mood. If for someone such an interior seems boring, it can easily be revived with bright details. This combination of walls and floor can be called universal, under them you can choose furniture, both light and dark, the accents can be any - red, yellow, green, etc. but still do not forget the important rule of no more than three colors.

• Light colored walls and white floors. You can add to the white floor colored wallpaperNow it’s fashionable to focus on one wall, highlighting it with color saturation or a contrasting pattern.

• Dark walls with white floor. Use this combination carefully. The walls are gray black, brown tones in the interior are interesting, but to be among them is "hard." This option is better to use in spacious, bright rooms, in standard apartments it is better not to use. In order to relieve the furniture and doors, choose light colors.

• Bright colored wallpaper or paint. Such a combination will make any room bright and cheerful. For bright walls, you can choose shades of blue, green, red or any other as desired. This option would be ideal for children's rooms, living rooms, the kitchen and for bath also suitable. But so as not to get too colorful textile and furniture it is advisable to choose restrained tones. It is worth adding more pastel, neutral shades, the main thing is not to go too far with the flowers.
  
  

  
• Gray floor. Achromatic gray color serves as a good background for any colors and shades. But it is worth knowing that gray also has midtones; it can be warm and cold, neutral. If you have not decided on the details of the interior, furniture, walls, but you have definitely decided that there will be gray accents, then it is better to choose a neutral gray. Goes well gray with light tones of pink and pastel, yellow shades. If you choose gray with blue, then you can "dilute" such a cool option by adding accessories and furniture in warm colors. The gray floor and green walls should be selected carefully, it is difficult to choose the perfect option, but possible.

• Dark floors. To the dark floors can be attributed black, gray, brown, so as not to create a gloomy atmosphere walls are better to make white, and exclusively white without various shades. The black floor will look good in a modern design in combination with laconic shapes, interesting furniture unusual lights. Dark floors are suitable for rooms with large windows, plenty of light from natural sources. Black and white interior it may turn out to be “overweight” it will be good to add bright colors, for example, a black floor, white walls, red impregnations in furniture. Can use bright paintings on the walls, accessories tailored to the style of the interior, but do not get too carried away and limit a large number of additions.
• Brown floors - one of the most popular representative is parquet in wenge colors, brown gives the interior stability, solidity, looks good in classic style, modern, Art Deco. Brown goes well with many colors, but the walls are in beige tones, the color of baked milk, and if choose the right lighting and furniture, the rooms will look spacious and comfortable.

• Bright colors on the floor. Juicy shades will look good in the kitchen. In living rooms it is still better to choose traditional options. To green or blue it is difficult to choose a decor, furniture. One more minus bright floors we can attribute the fact that with a long stay in the room, the nervous system will begin to react too sharply even to innocent stimuli, which is unacceptable for rest rooms.

• Floors in natural wood. Can expressively look and wood floors yellow and orange shades. Regarding the walls, it is better to arrange them in beige tones, baked milk or pastel.

Floor color by type of room

Hallway floor color

Hallway - This is a full room, part of a house or apartment and one of the most loaded rooms. Color selection gender in the hallway it also plays an important role in solving complex specific problems.

Many professionals recommend dark color scheme, the argument is simple - pollution and minor damage are less noticeable on such a surface. But there are general patterns of color influence in the design of the hallway. Since the entrance hall is most often a small room, and as we already know in this case, it is better to choose a floor of light shades. You can complement the interior with dark elements, for example, lay a track near the entrance of a dark color. In the spacious hallways it is possible to realize many ideas with various shades. Bright floors make the hallway spacious, dark hide flaws, the choice is yours. You can choose a dark floor with white walls, bright colors will do in combination with plain light the walls. When choosing a color in the hallway, the quantity plays an important role, type and placement of light sources. If the hallway provides furniturethen it should be darker than the flooring.

Kitchen floor color

Kitchen - the room not only where they work, but also a place where they relax, spend a lot of time, such features require attention when choosing a color gender. Walls, furniture and floors should be combined and complemented as much as possible. Color should not be annoying and cause only positive emotions. Do not forget that with the help of color design You can visually increase the area of ​​the room. It is recommended to consider the option divide the room into several zonese.g. laminate and tile. Laminate creates comfort, tiles are more practical in the work area. The main condition for such a combination is that both materials should have a harmonious combination if zone y slabs dark, the rest of the area is lighter. When creating contrasting solutions, dark-colored floors are used, but in such cases a sufficient amount is necessary lighting.

Hall floor color

The best choice for the hall will become parquet, laminate, carpet light shades combined with dark or bright the furniture. Hall - a room where guests often gather, therefore the floor should set up for a good pastime and communication, but at the same time and be practical, non-marking. Classic restrained tones are just right: beige, shades of natural wood, light gray can also be considered, but dark noble colors will also fit perfectly: chocolate shades, mahogany, wenge.

Floor color for bedroom

Bedroom - a relaxation room, so you should give preference to calm tones. Light floor combined with skirting board in one tone or dark brown plus pastel wallpaper and easy tulle add to the overall picture of comfort and tranquility. But you can take a chance and make floor catchy, dark colors, diluting the overall light palette. From materials suitable laminate and parquet. In the nursery gender is also better to choose calm shades or vice versa highlight with bright colors. It is worth paying attention to blue, peach, sand, light pink, such shades improve mood and stimulate brain activity.

Floor color for bathroom and toilet

For bathrooms no special restrictions on the choice of design and color sexes, it can be either plain light, or radically black or innovative bulk floors with 3D effect. The best solutions are the floors of blue, light green, lavender color. Color the walls and the ceiling can match the color of the floor, in spacious bathrooms you can experiment and combine different colors. For lovers of bright colors, you can pay attention to yellow, pink, blue.

Conclusion

The choice of floor color should be taken responsibly, the coating should look harmonious and complement the interior. You should successfully choose a combination with other elements that will be present in the interior and then it will turn out stylish and cozy. Summing up when choosing the floor color, the following are taken into account: the location of the rooms, the presence of natural light or the density of artificial, the purpose of the room, the combination of walls and ceiling, furniture and doors, the perception of colors, and most importantly the personal preferences and tastes of residents.