Matching Your Riverside Wood Shutters With The Wood In Your Home
Natural wood in your Riverside home could make it the envy of all your neighbors. Hardwood floors, classic oak furniture, or exposed beam work are trademarks of a handcrafted, luxurious homestead. And to take it even further, you could complement the wood in your home with the highest quality Riverside wood shutters. Sunburst will teach you how.
How to Weave Different Wood Types in Your Home
A commonly held belief about using natural wood in decorating is that you need to use the same type of wood in every part of your home. That’s not a great idea for a few reasons. The first is because it can be hard to exactly match wood types: your engineered wood floor, mahogany furniture, and teak wood shutters are going to naturally vary in tone. The second reason is that if you match all the wood in your home, everything kind of runs together and it doesn’t look very interesting.
What’s more important is to try to coordinate the tone and the grain of the wood in your furnishings. Doing that will give your place a great sense of flow without it getting boring or plain.
Matching Wood Grains In Your Design
Matching the grain is fairly simple. If your hardwood floors are smooth, choose a smooth finish for your wood shutters to match. If your wood floor has texture to it, whether it’s wire-brushed or hand-scraped, a similar grain to your wood shutters keeps that natural style flowing all through your space.
Matching Wood Tones In Your Design
Being able to match wood tones is a little trickier. When picking the finish of your wood shutters, keep a few things in mind:
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Try to keep within the same “family” - though you don’t need to perfectly match the species of wood, keep in mind which species of wood are more formal or casual. Mahogany and cherry tend to be a bit more formal, while maple and pine are a little more casual.
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Walls are natural buffers – matching wood furnishings to wood flooring is a little tricky since they sit right next to each other. Your wall offers a natural break between wood shutters and the rest of your decor, giving you more room to experiment with various styles.
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Stay Warm or Stay Cool - Most wood species naturally carry either a warm or cool tone. Choose wood shutters that match the tone of the room as well as the texture.
