Dark floors: an original touch in the interior

The choice of flooring is very important for the integrity and perfection of the final result. In the interior, the first main focus may be on the walls and furniture, but the floor always remains the background framework that affects perception. The main criteria are not only color, but also the material.

If you don’t want the traditional, seeming boring and banal, but want a spectacular, luxurious apartment design, then the dark floor in the interior of any room can easily do this. Impressive photos of the interiors will undoubtedly inspire inspiration, and recommendations will help greatly save time on specific decisions.

Obvious advantages

Choosing such a performance for rooms with different functionalities, you can not worry about the following points:

• The style. Fits into any style, and is able to conditionally "add price" to the final result.
• The psychological aspect. Choosing a dark gamut is a natural solution. The basis of the room is subconsciously stable, reliable.

• Saving. A spectacular floor can become the basis of the interior: it allows the rest of the surface to be trimmed with neutral, more budget materials.
• Contrast. Fashionable black and white interiors.
• Expressiveness. Combines with a wallpaper pattern. Excessive color is reduced by a light ceiling, neutral finish, upholstery of the main furniture.

• The design of the accent wall, without which the interior is rarely dispensed with, can change the configuration of the room. Actual for a long narrow room.
• Trendy gradient solutions (when using one primary color with varying degrees of saturation).

A vertical dark ornament will visually raise the ceiling.

Overcoming obstacles

Before you enjoy the dark floor visually, you should consider the practical side of the issue - leaving and maintaining the pristine condition. Yes: dust, crumbs, pet hair, other annoying little things can spoil any interior and in the dark they are more pronounced. Another point is wear resistance, because scuffs are also more noticeable. Therefore, it is important to choose the optimal material that will help solve specific problems.

• Parquet is a favorite of expensive interiors, with proven quality. Now it is used not only in classic, but also in popular eco-directions, for example, dark bog oak. Like any natural wood coating, it requires a rather careful attitude, but will last a long time with timely care.
• Laminate. His choice should be approached as biased as possible, because there are representatives who are not distinguished by high strength: as a rule, joints suffer.
• Bung. Quite a new look, but with its own merits. For the same price, with a high-quality laminate, you can benefit in comfort, and the wonders of photo printing will create not just a dark coating, but an exclusive one.

• From the point of view of wear resistance and durability, the tile probably has no equal. But linoleum should not be discounted. Even budget representatives will provide 5-8 years of trouble-free service.
• Bulk floor. A fairly popular solution for various rooms. It is worth considering that a glossy, with a mirror effect, uniform coating will create an interior less permanent and more illusory than planned. Undoubtedly, it will give dynamics for an ultramodern design. Suitable for courageous, loving innovative moments, both in technology and furniture. It is important here not to lose comfort, not to cross the line between the home interior and the impersonal.

• Carpeting cannot be ignored for use in such a “soft” room as a bedroom. The textures and colors of the modern representatives of this material are so diverse that you can create a particularly chic look of the room. The bedroom, from the point of view of tough exploitation of the floor covering, is at the end of the list. It can withstand from 5 years in pristine condition without problems. This is a place of rest, relaxation: the issue of increasing space is not as acute as, for example, in the hall, kitchen. You can enable the drawing, combined with the rest of the design.

Shades of dark

Choosing a dark floor as the final part of the interior, many owners are tormented with the choice of a suitable shade. If everything is pretty clear with black, then choosing between chocolate and wenge can be difficult.

There are completely working rules based on the perception of the color scheme as a whole, its interaction with the main components - walls, furniture:

• to give a boudoir, luxurious look to any room - deep saturated violet, blue, anthracite-gray shades that seem black, but they are not. One or two dark walls will enhance the effect.
• For a white interior, the color of the floor is a decisive factor. Sometimes a chocolate floor and wicker furniture are enough to set the tone. The general view becomes warm, cozy, despite the walls, the ceiling is snow-white.

• For silvery, pale pink walls, a dark gray floor is chosen as a more sophisticated companion.
• A game of dullness and gloss. On a dark brown glossy parquet (laminate), corrugated upholstery of a soft group, fluffy carpets looks spectacular.

Any heterogeneity in the form of light veins, interspersed with the flooring will reduce the degree of contrast, and the disadvantages of care will not be noticeable.

Ode to the dark floor

To get a catchy design, you don't have to come up with complicated moves. The dark floor should definitely be rhymed with any element in the interior, a noticeable accessory. Designers recommend using decor items that are not in contact with the lower plane for this purpose.

A great option for the living room: vases, large gizmos, standing, placed on open shelves, section surfaces, chests of drawers, fireplace. They can be only 2-3, but they must have a character, express a general idea, while they may not be monophonic, but simply contain a noticeable amount of color of the floor covering.

For rooms with different functionalities, it is worth choosing win-win combinations of elements, segments, accessories, consonant with the dark floor.

Caution: too gloomy

Cozier than the combination of dark flooring and light walls for the living room, it's hard to imagine. But do not combine with all the basic items of furniture. Upholstered furniture can be lemon yellow, pale olive.

If you do not want a duet with a calm light beige, but want brightness, dynamics - the accent color looks very catchy in contrast to the dark surface: red, turquoise, fashionable neon. Furniture can be as colorful and non-standard as your imagination allows.

Only through long combinations will it be possible to create an interior that is successful from the point of view of perception completely in dark colors, when artful aesthetics defeats gloom. But the result, like bohemian chic, is exactly original.

Doors, conspicuous architectural components, should not enter into dissonance with a horizontal plane, but even one tone is inappropriate. They are chosen consonant with the walls, especially for calm styles (Scandinavian).

As for partial duplication with ceiling execution, it all depends on the height. Close to the black floor and ceiling, along with a white side background - will expand the space, but reduce the height.

If the purpose of the room is an office, a library, possibly a living room, then entourage techniques like a coffered ceiling (plain or combined) are appropriate. Performing in tune with the dark floor is a bold decision that immediately adds status and respectability. For country, some authentic variations are beams on a white background.

Special places

As a rule, the smallest in area, however, the bath and the corridor are very significant places for a holistic perception of the house. You should not be afraid of gloom here. If you make small spaces evenly dark throughout the volume, you get the effect of blurring borders. The effect of crowding, stiffness is eliminated by a sufficient amount of lighting, large mirrors, which is typical for these areas.

For these areas, a dark warm floor is the optimal solution. It will create a lot of stylistic variations. The fashionable loft shows up as an accent brick white wall. It is in perfect harmony with the extremely dark underfoot. Result: street chic for the hall, stylish urban “wet zone”.

The latest bathroom news:

• spa - in the company with numerous wood surfaces, white fluffy towels,
• mosaic performance for originality, originality, strengthening of ethnic moments,
• two monochroms (black horizontal, white vertical) plus a mirror ceiling, accessories made of yellow metal - radiant glamor, a female version of the dream bath.

Attention! You should take into account the risk of leaving prints, traces of water stains, especially on gloss.

Kitchen and Docking Features

A kitchen, especially combined with other areas (living room, dining room) is a place whose functionality affects the choice of flooring. You can not do without combining tiles with alternative wooden material (parquet board, laminate).

A few aesthetic design recommendations that can be noted for other cases:

• Choosing the perfect combination in terms of perception is quite problematic - these are two different opposing materials, even in the same color they will look different.
• Use a calm contrast, for example, non-aggressive black with vanilla, light gray.
• Add to the dark in a pair of color companion: cold green shades (mint, turquoise).
• First, patterned tiles with ornament or stone look are selected. Already to her - a wooden dark surface to the color of the veins of stone, elements of the picture.
• For modern minimalism, form is the basis of the interior. The dark stone floor, "flowing" into the bar, countertop, apron, against a snow-white background is a bold design move.

Consider combining different floor coverings for different rooms or areas. For example, black tile is a similar sill. Or use invisible narrow docking profiles.

In order for the border contact between the two materials to succeed, you have to invest financially in a perfect floor leveling. Then at the junction there will be no noticeable seam, which is very convenient when cleaning.

All examples of interiors with a dark floor encourage not to be afraid of experiments. But only taking into account the specific points of use, not just aesthetic appeal, but also the practical load, you can create the perfect design. As expected of the best of all possible, successful solutions, this option should accompany the owner in a year, delighting every day.

Features

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

Dark floors look very solid. You can choose such floor coverings for different styles. Grayish is great for a loft, brown surfaces for an English classic.

Dark

Combine dark doors and dark flooring as carefully 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 pick up the same flooring if the carpet and various products in the room are light.
• A door of a dark gray hue will go well with a brown, grayish flooring and light, white wallpaper.
• If the doors are similar in color to dark chocolate, the dark brown floor and beige walls will suit them well. You can choose any floor covering to light brown doors.
• 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.

Bright

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

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

Bright

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

The following options are possible:

• Blue doors can be combined with gray or brownish flooring.
• Green doors blend in with dark brown, black flooring and beige, reddish walls.
• Ruby, burgundy, red doors can be purchased for a room with black flooring and light beige walls.

Walls

On the walls there can be either stucco or simple wallpapers, but in color they must be in harmony with the floor.

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

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

Baseboard

The color of the skirting board should be in harmony with the floor and walls. It can be one color with a floor covering, 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 in color is combined with flooring and other interior elements.

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

Furniture Items

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

Options:

• Bright. Standard light furniture can be combined with any floor coverings. If the floor is dark brown, you should opt for white pieces of furniture. For a room with a graphite, brown or gray shade floor, it is better to choose products in the color of light wood, pale pink, beige tones.
• Dark Bluish or gray furniture can be selected for rooms with brown flooring. If it is black, the colors are wenge, brownish, graphite. A dark gray floor will blend in nicely with dark red or black furniture.

Floor color

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

• The black. You can choose this floor if you want to make the interior of the bedroom and living room more solid. Black “dilute” the interior, decorated in white, it will make it more interesting. This floor is suitable for colored walls, beige, brown, golden wallpaper. With black flooring, light doors, skirting boards in white or black are well combined.

• Grey. This is a fairly neutral shade for the floor. You can choose the ceiling of the same color. Such flooring is suitable for loft, country, marine style.
• Brown. This color creates comfort in the room. Most often it is chosen for living rooms, bedrooms, but it can be suitable for any room. This is an ideal option for a rustic style chalet.
• Blue. This color is soothing. Such floors are quite common. The blue flooring is suitable for rooms with a black or white door.
• Green. Grass-like flooring is an accent, it attracts the eye. For this reason, it is better to arrange a room with a green floor covering with rather neutral furniture, which will not draw attention to itself.

Styles

Dark flooring is particularly suitable for a number of specific styles.

It can help create the necessary atmosphere:

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

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

Bathroom

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.

The corridor

In the hallways there is usually not enough natural light, in addition, they are often polluted. For such a room, you can purchase porcelain tile, laminate, which is resistant to moisture. The ceiling and walls should be bright.

Children

This room is a small "kingdom" of the child, it should be distinguished by maximum convenience, comfort, security. For such a room, you should choose a moisture resistant, fairly soft floor covering. The floor should not be slippery, because children are usually very mobile - they can accelerate and fall. A wooden floor and a carpet on it, as well as a carpet, a laminate, which is resistant to liquid, is suitable. It is better to choose a brown color.

Bedroom

It is worth choosing colors that are in harmony with the furniture and various decorative elements in the room. Options can be very different, it all depends on your artistic flair.

In the living rooms, carpet, laminate surfaces, and parquet board look good. If the room is small, it is better not to do the black floor.

Interesting examples

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

An example of how a dark floor remarkably “dilutes” a light interior.

The space in the studio apartment can be zoned using various floor and wall coverings. The tiles in the kitchen area blend very well with the dark floor in the living room. A very interesting option for a room decorated in a loft style.

The dark floor is ideal for English classics. The fireplace gives the room a special cosiness.

About how to design an interior using a dark floor, see the next video.

1. Looking for a balance

A win-win option is to balance the dark floor with light vertical surfaces. White walls are designed for minimalistic design, and pastel yellow or blue tones will help to create an interior in a classic style.

True, this combination of colors looks quite strict, so designers recommend adding several contrasting shades to the color scheme due to the decor. Another noteworthy option is to combine a dark wood floor with coffee walls. The combination with gray walls also looks interesting, however, in this case, it is worth making a choice in favor of warm shades of surfaces.

Light furniture

Light furniture is combined with any floor in the interior. White furniture will create the lightness of classic and Scandinavian style in the interior, along with a dark brown floor. Beige, pastel pink, light wood color furniture suitable for gray, brown, graphite floor.

Dark furniture

Furniture should be lighter than the floor or have a shade of dark color. Gray, dark blue furniture will fit the brown floor. To the black floor you need to pick up graphite, brown furniture, a wenge-colored set. The dark gray flooring in the interior fits black, dark red furniture.

In the photo, the leather bed almost merges with the dark color of the floor, the bedroom has white walls and textiles, which adds light to the interior.

Dark floor colors

The black floor is suitable for creating a solid interior of a living room, a cozy bedroom. Black color warms a cool white interior, suitable for golden wallpapers, combined with brown, beige, colored walls. Universal color, combined with black and white skirting boards, light doors.

Dark green

It looks unusual, such a carpet resembles grass, a hard coating will become an independent accent and it is better to combine it with neutral furniture.

The photo shows a dark green floor in the interior of the living room in a classic style.

Classical

The classic style is distinguished by sophistication and the use of natural materials for decoration. The flooring is most often made of a laminate or parquet board the color of wenge or stained oak, which is combined with pale red, beige, white walls, burgundy or emerald tapestry. Skirting boards and doors are best chosen for furniture or walls. For the bathroom, plain matte tiles with ornaments or wood-like tiles are used.

Country

In a rustic style, it implies a floor from a rough board or laminate; in an apartment, it can be dark wood parquet. This floor is combined with a leather sofa, shabby furniture, a wooden table made of pine or pear.

In the loft style, it manifests itself in special negligence and the presence of only the necessary furniture. Comfort is valued above all, so the floor should be made of wood, black, gray, dark brown laminate are suitable. The floor can be made of concrete to simulate an unfinished screed, but then you need to insulate it.

In the photo there is a studio apartment in the loft interior and a combination of tiles in the kitchen area with dark parquet in the living area.

Living room

For the hall it is better to use a parquet board, laminate, carpet. Warm material, a fireplace, soft upholstered furniture will set up for a pleasant conversation. In a small living room, it is better not to use black flooring.

Hallway

How often a room is contaminated and poorly lit by daylight, it must combine light walls and flooring with a dark moisture-resistant laminate or porcelain tile. A plain glossy tile with a decorative frieze carpet in the middle of the hallway will do.

In the photo, the interior of the entrance hall with graphite flooring, blue walls and white interior doors, additional lighting and white surfaces add a sense of space.

Photo gallery

The dark floor makes the interior presentable, warmer, stone or oak finish evokes an association with luxury and coziness. It is best combined with pastel and light colors, high-quality textiles and furniture. Below are photos of examples of using flooring in dark shades in rooms for various functional purposes.

Advantages and disadvantages

Like any other finishing materials, dark flooring has its own advantages and disadvantages. To get started, you should familiarize yourself with a list of the advantages of such finishing options:

• First of all, it is worth noting the unsurpassed design of dark flooring. Today, many designers turn to such materials, since with their help you can radically change the situation in the room and make it more thoughtful.
• Dark coatings are often addressed in order to slightly update the interior and add notes of aristocracy and luxury to it.

• Having dark floors in the room, you can effectively play with contrasts, forming original ensembles. For example, against the background of dark chocolate laminate, modern furniture on a chrome frame with snow-white upholstery will effectively stand out. Such contrasts never go unnoticed and look very interesting.
• Laminate of dark tones is not easily soiled. Yes, traces of dust are more noticeable on it, but more serious dirty traces on such coatings are rarely evident. That is why the dark floor is appropriate not only in the living room and bedroom, but also in the kitchen, in the corridor or hallway.
• Most dark shades can easily be combined with many colors. This indicates the undemanding dark sex. Each owner will be able to put contrasting light furniture and decorative details on it.

Unfortunately, dark flooring has its drawbacks. These include:

• Visual reduction in space. A similar effect does not always occur, but much depends on the direct footage of the room and the rest of its decoration. For example, in a miniature room painted with muted colors, the dark floor will not look very harmonious and cozy.
• The dark floor should not be used in rooms where there are already many dark colors. For example, it may be a gloomy wall and ceiling decoration. If you add dark flooring to such design decisions, the situation will more resemble a gloomy attic or closet.

• On most dark floor materials, not only dusty traces, but also fingerprints easily remain. This is especially true for glossy or matte laminate, as well as parquet boards. With these finishes, you should be prepared for regular cleaning with a vacuum cleaner and a slightly damp cloth.
• Any damage to the dark coating will be more noticeable. Even small scratches and cracks on such surfaces cannot be hidden.

Combination with doors

In an interior with a dark flooring, all the details should be thought out. And this applies not only to wall decoration and furniture, but also to elements such as doors and windows.

Consider a few successful combinations of "gloomy" floor and door leafs:

• The most successful is the combination of dark floor trim and a snow-white door. At the same time, the walls in the room can be decorated with wallpaper or paint in beige, soft cream or ivory.
• Discreet beige door designs will fit the dark floor. They are more practical and less easily soiled than the classic white options. Such instances are recommended to be combined with floor coverings of dark brown scales.

• If you like interesting and fashionable combinations, then you will definitely like the combination of a dark floor and a light gray door. For such ensembles, it is recommended to buy more neutral wallpapers of warm or saturated tones in order to dispel the light boredom of discreet colors.
• Do not think that in rooms with a dark floor you can not use dark door leafs. For example, popular wenge shade designs that have noticeable brownish streaks will fit perfectly with a similar floor. However, for such tandems, it is worth choosing wall decoration and furniture of lighter shades.
• Dark ash constructions will also look good. Such products in combination with dark flooring are recommended to be diluted with white walls.

• Do you like black color? Then you can purchase beautiful and original doors in this design. You can use these canvases in both classical and modern stylistic directions. However, you should avoid a complete repetition of the shade of both the door and the floor, otherwise they simply merge with each other and cease to be attractive.
• A room with a dark floor can also use brighter and more colorful doors. For example, it can be contrasting scarlet, green, blue, pink, yellow or turquoise canvases. Often these decisions look bold and no less original.

Combination with the walls

The dark floor must be suitable for the decoration of the walls in the room. To do this, you can use absolutely any material, from paper wallpaper to expensive textured plaster.

Let's take a closer look at several beautiful and fashionable combinations of wall and floor finishes:

• In a room with a dark floor covering, you can use light wall decoration. It can be classic white, beige, pale yellow and even delicate pastel colors. It is acceptable to use paintings with contrasting patterns and matching prints.

• It is not forbidden to decorate walls with dark materials in such ensembles. For example, if you are looking for suitable wallpapers in dense and deep tones, then interesting options with large black ornaments are quite suitable for you. As for plain canvases, their color can be ashen, brown or cobalt. In such interiors, it is recommended to use accent light walls and baseboards.

Classic

For a classic interior, it is worth choosing flooring made of natural wood, and it is advisable to choose options from valuable species. Most often, these ensembles install high-quality dark laminate of high class, aristocratic parquet or expensive massive boards.

These materials may have a unique shade of wenge or solid bog oak. Such options will look great in a room with light beige or pale brown walls surrounded by quality furniture made of natural wood.

English

This style is both rich and vintage, as it is most often present in it. many aged luxurious items demonstrating social status and the great taste of the homeowners.

In such ensembles, it is recommended to use flooring made of natural mahogany in dark tones. An addition in the form of a luxurious jacquard carpet will not be superfluous.

High tech

In this modern stylistic direction, dark floors look just fine. It can be a black laminate, and a dark brown parquet, and a dark gray carpet, and even black glossy tiles.

As a rule, in such interiors there is furniture with elements of glass and metal, as well as monophonic details of classic tones (white, black, gray). Such items will look very organic against a dark flooring.

Minimalism

This is another modern direction, which is rightfully recognized as the most standard and concise. The fact is that the minimalist style does not allow the use of a large number of decorative details in the interior, intricate prints and ornate furniture elements.

This also applies to flooring. It is advisable to use solid dark materials in such ensembles, in which there are no contrasting inserts or any patterns, even if they are hardly distinguishable.

Beautiful interiors

The dark floor looks impressive in many interiors. The main thing is not to spread it in a room in which there is already a large number of gloomy colors. It is desirable that the walls and furniture contrast with such a coating.

For example, it can be woven soft sofas with wooden legs and armrests, snow-white walls and living plants in milk pots. True, in such ensembles one can still put one dark element. For example, it could be a coffee table or a table lamp.

Against the background of a chic seamless semi-gloss floor of a black-brown hue, upholstered furniture made of soft cream leather will stand out stunningly. Similar details should surround white walls with niches with dark edging and large wall paintings. Opposite the cream furniture, a small brown table will find its place.

Such a floor can be easily and effectively beaten not only with light wall trim, but also with the usual fluffy carpet in the apartment. For example, next to a velvety soft brown sofa, a soft rectangular carpet of a pale gray shade will find its place. It should be put on a black glass table. The set may seem very simple, but it will look great, especially if it is surrounded by snow-white and accent chocolate walls.

Large dark blue tiles with snow-white lines of joints will be the perfect solution for a modern kitchen. In such a room, a light, concise set with regular angular shapes will find its place, a bar counter with dark side details and black glossy chairs, as well as a table and chairs in cream colors.

Of course, such an ensemble can be safely attributed to the modern style, so it is better not to add carved elements and other similar components to it.

In the living room with a dark chocolate laminate and rich reddish-brown walls, a black leather sofa will be interesting. This combination may seem too gloomy, so it should be diluted with red wall lamps in a modern style and living plants in glass vases of a chocolate hue.

It will be nice if the sofa has metal chrome parts, for example, armrests or legs.