Color Matching Hardwood

With birch wood stains in the wood tend to take on a gray color.

Color matching hardwood.

On a basic level hardwood floors usually are all brown with black or white painted hardwood being exceptions to the norm. Also if your wood floors have been stained or waxed over the years this can alter the color. Especially if a custom stain blend was used it can make it harder to recreate the exact color. 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.

When laminate or engineered flooring is involved try and match the faded tones of the existing floor to new products being installed. As we already mentioned the specific shade of your hardwood flooring can make a big difference in the best paint colors for your walls. 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. 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.

If you have wood floors this would be your dominant wood tone. Otherwise pick the largest furniture piece in the room. It s important to look at height type species grade width color and direction of wood.