The black-stained table and seats are an impulse purchase, heirlooms, or the dining room or living room of your dreams. Now you have to arrange them on hardwood flooring which should show off that furniture to advantage. You have as many options as there are decor styles — but you should avoid the nondescript and the bland in favor of a contrast. Black furniture creates a strong statement and requires an equally assertive floor.
Warm-Scale Wood
The sloping wood dining room set is stained ebony and gleams from the warm tones of a red oak or cherry hardwood flooring. Wide plank flooring in red woods complement rural and primitive decor. Thinner boards are less theatrical but work well in Historic American and standard dining rooms. Adhere to warm tones for the rest of the color in the room, even if drapes and walls are impartial. Antique cream or turmeric walls rather than icy or grayish whites, and apricot rather than teal paint, ties the red floor using the dark furniture. A light gray wall color, in the warm as opposed to the trendy selection, is sophisticated with shiny pewter raw silk drapes.
Shades of Pale
The contrast between black furniture and an extremely light floor showcases the furniture whilst reflecting light in the room. Whitewashing and pickling are two ways to lighten a hardwood flooring without completely covering it from opaque colour. Whitewashed wood has a dilute application of white paint over a sanded surface; the texture of the wood shows through, but the color is nearly bleached away. Pickled flooring are bleached first, which empties the timber of much of its colour and increases the timber grain. After sanding the raised grain, a pickling solution adds slight pigment that emphasizes the pores and crevices from the boards. Both finishes, whitewashing and pickling, should be sealed using a non-yellowing protective clear coat. Black furniture against a white floor works with contemporary, industrial and eclectic decor.
Black and More Black
Black-on-black is stunning in a room with light or white ceiling and walls. The living room or dining room furniture, stained exactly the same rich ebony as the flooring, requires a contrasting rug to cover some of the floor and highlight the transition from black boards to black furniture. Use just an area rug to avoid covering the stunning floor boards. Select a handwoven ethnic rug using an unbleached fiber backdrop and bare, irregular patterns of bright colour in a room with modern and folk art furnishings. Go to the bold patterns of a modern carpet in a dining room with black-stained seats and also a black table base surrounded with a hefty slab of clear glass. Protect those ebony flooring with the tough gloss of many coats of clear polyurethane or durable marine varnish.
Blond at Midnight
A naturally light wood, such as ash, maple or birch, should be completed to preserve its light colour in a room using a black-stained table and seats. The contrast between the inky timber of the furniture and the raw wood color of the light lumber creates a room that’s anything but boring. A antique Chinese cinnabar bowl on a dining table adds a gallery vibe into the room. Keep it rather spare with linen walls and a single red-lacquered Ming cabinet; diners and the menu provide the only other colour in the room. Black lacquered antique furniture in the living room requires a beautifully old, somewhat or seriously faded oriental rug over the blond floors to mix the dark and light wood tones jointly without dominating the room.