Light colored walls increase the visual size of a room and contrast with dark floors.
Wall small living room with dark wood floors.
Walls can complement or contrast with a floor just as easily based purely upon your color selection.
There are a bunch of styles of living rooms that go well with the dark wood floor.
This gorgeous modern living room features dark hardwood flooring that simultaneously contrasts and picks up some of the more orange tones of the wood of the entertainment.
It means that this wood floor probably has to be refinished less frequently than the light one.
It is so often used in living room interiors that it could easily get boring.
This living room is small but the cool toned light hardwood floors and matching furniture make it look spacious.
The dark wood floors of this modestly sized but comfortable living room are covered by a natural fiber area rug that lends a nautical feel to the blue and white color pallet.
Marble white bronze and wood dark wood floors in the kitchen can be very chic.
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The dark wood floor would be less susceptible to fade than the light one.
Here is a classic hardwood floor with a twist it is laid diagonally and has a nice decorative effect.
Keep the overall effect elegant and light by balancing the dark floors with white cabinetry and walls warm bronze metals and wood accents just a few shades lighter than the floors.