Why Be Careful When Picking Laminate Flooring Colour?
By Derek Gardner, Fri Dec 9th

b>If you intend to buy laminate flooring for your housethere are a few things you should consider first. For example,what if you have natural maple cabinets/bookshelves/ etc. allthrough your house and now you want to put in laminate flooring.What would be best then; stay with the natural maple for theflooring or go with a cherry that has more contrast?

Most people have a tendency to recommend a contrast whenit comes to flooring. The white sap wood in American Cherrywould certainly be complimentary to the natural maple cabinets.It is a beautiful wood, but notes that it is very soft and tendsto ding and dent easily. Hickory is a fun wood if you like amore rustic look, and it is very hard and dense like maple. Itswhite sap wood contrasts with the deep, rich, reds and browns ofthe heart wood. Or, you can select the unparalleled most wantedoak with a warm stain for contrast.

Or you could consider going more

along the lines of adarker stain. Contrasting maple with a dark tone is striking andmay be the design statement you're looking for; i.e., Chestnut,Dark Walnut, and Ebony.

In addition to selecting a that will complimentyour cabinets/bookshelves, etc. also be thinking about how itwill work with the actual colours that you'll be using forupholstery, drapery, wall paint, etc. particularly if you'rethinking of using burgundy's, reds, rusts, browns, gold's, etc.the yellow and/or reddish tones in wood can get rather tricky.

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