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Is Matching Shades and Flooring a Good Idea?

There isn’t a right answer to the question of “is matching shades and flooring a good idea?” This is because it really depends on your interior design aesthetic and personal tastes. The cohesive matching of flooring and shades can also be influenced by other objects in the room, like furniture and wall treatments, so taking a broader big picture look at matching shades and flooring is needed for an overall look that’s well balanced.

Heritance® Hardwood Shutters Kahului, Hawaii (HI) matching shades to hardwood floors with color, style, and texture

Take for example matching shades and wood floors. Wood floors have long been a popular flooring style in residential homes because of their durability and aesthetic appeal. Wood floors are authoritative and classic, so compatible with traditional interior designs, and yet wood floors are also organic and warm, and so in-line with many styles of modern interior design as well. Read on to learn more about matching shades and wood floors using different styles of hard and soft window treatments.

Wood Floors with Wooden Shutters

Wood floors and wood shutters are a classic pairing as both their material and color palette match. Using matching colors for hardwood shutters and wood floors give the two a cohesive feel within the room, which has a more substantial effect on design. For example, matching hardwood floors and shutters in a dark hue could better counterbalance light colored walls or ground a large, overstuffed sofa more effectively. And the color of the flooring and shutters don’t have to match exactly for the effect to work, just so long as the two are painted or stained in a similar hue, shade, or tone. Hunter Douglas makes Heritance® Hardwood Shutters that come in a range of hues and can also be crafted in customized color so you can easily coordinate wood shutters with an array of different wood floorings.

Wood Floors with Drapery

The opposite of matching wood floors and hardwood shutters is matching wood floors with rich, dramatic drapery. The lush folds of high-quality fabrics and the array of colors and patterns that drapery is available in presents the polar opposite of the design scale to the hard lines and firm feel of wood floors paired with hardwood shutters. In this manner, drapery is matched to wood floors not through exactly matching coordination, but rather though complimentary coordination of colors and styles. For instance, the carob-colored stem in a bold floral print might match the hue in your hardwood floor thus connecting the drapes to the wood floor with a subtle color match and also extending the organic style by creating a connection between natural elements in the room.

Wood Floors with Woven Wood Shades

One interesting way of matching shades with hardwood floors that is becoming popular in modern interior design styles is matching woven wooden shades that have the same color palette and material as hardwood floors but a very different textural aesthetics. This miss-matching style has come to the forefront of design thanks to the recently renewed interest in using natural elements, like wood, in modern interior design. They allow homeowners the versatility of matching shades to hardwood floors in a number of aesthetically unique ways.

If you’re curious about learning more style tips for matching shades and hardwood floors, contact the interior style experts at Abbey Carpet & Floor. With a range of Hunter Douglas products in house they can help you coordinate with color, style, or material with woven wood shades, full drapery, and hardwood shutters in stock today. Abbey Carpet & Floor serves Kihei, Lahaina, Pukalani, Wailuku, Wailea, and Kahului, Hawaii, from their central location near Kahului, HI. Contact Abbey Carpet & Floor online by requesting a consultation or visit their showroom today.

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