Color Matching Hardwood

Choose whichever sample is closest in color to the existing floor.

Color matching hardwood.

With birch wood stains in the wood tend to take on a gray color. Even if the same wood species is selected for installation achieving that seamless match in hues will require staining the wood and some good old fashioned elbow grease. As we already mentioned the specific shade of your hardwood flooring can make a big difference in the best paint colors for your walls. It s important to look at height type species grade width color and direction of wood.

Especially if a custom stain blend was used it can make it harder to recreate the exact color. While mixing wood tones is perfectly acceptable and in fact encouraged it always helps to pick a dominant wood tone as a starting point to help you choose other pieces to bring in the room. Gather samples with different intensities of the same color then pair them with the existing faded floor. Due to the fact that wood colors naturally as it ages it is unlikely that you will get an exact match between your old wood flooring and your new wood flooring.

If you have wood floors this would be your dominant wood tone. On a basic level hardwood floors usually are all brown with black or white painted hardwood being exceptions to the norm. When laminate or engineered flooring is involved try and match the faded tones of the existing floor to new products being installed.