Color Matching Hardwood

While mixing wood tones is perfectly acceptable and in fact encouraged it always helps to pick a dominant wood tone as a starting point to help you choose other pieces to bring in the room.

Color matching hardwood.

Even if the same wood species is selected for installation achieving that seamless match in hues will require staining the wood and some good old fashioned elbow grease. Due to the fact that wood colors naturally as it ages it is unlikely that you will get an exact match between your old wood flooring and your new wood flooring. Choose whichever sample is closest in color to the existing floor. Also if your wood floors have been stained or waxed over the years this can alter the color.

On a basic level hardwood floors usually are all brown with black or white painted hardwood being exceptions to the norm. With birch wood stains in the wood tend to take on a gray color. If you have wood floors this would be your dominant wood tone. Especially if a custom stain blend was used it can make it harder to recreate the exact color.

It s important to look at height type species grade width color and direction of wood. Gather samples with different intensities of the same color then pair them with the existing faded floor. Otherwise pick the largest furniture piece in the room.