In a new build, or even after opting for a renovation project for your home, it’s essential that the decoration is completely changed, but how can you make this step a success, taking into account the color of your parquet flooring?
You’ve opted for a dark-colored parquet floor, and don’t know how to match a specific decoration?
Don’t worry, this kind of inconvenience won’t even be a worry for you when we present you with the different ideas and colors to add to your home to brighten it up, and give it a more modern design.
Decorating with dark parquet: an essential element
Whether you’re entertaining guests, planning a special event at home, or simply looking for a sense of comfort and well-being on a daily basis, redecorating your home can be a real therapy for you and your loved ones.
For this reason, the essential point to address is how you are going to highlight your parquet floor, if it’s dark in color, the choice and design of the elements to be placed in the various nooks and crannies of your home must be taken seriously, and chosen with care, because, as trivial as it may seem, it’s a key element of what your home is going to look like when you’ve finished decorating.
The main reasons why it’s imperative to take this detail into account are :
- Match your decor to the color of the floor to give your home a style;
- Illuminate and brighten up the appearance of different rooms in the house;
- Highlight your parquet floor with sober decoration;
- Make you feel better in your new home;
- An opportunity to change furniture and items you don’t like.
However, the choice of furniture to highlight your parquet floor is very important, because if you make the wrong choice, it will give an impression of clutter in your home, and set an atmosphere that won’t be very warm.
So, if you don’t have a clear idea, take the advice of a decorating and interior design expert, or continue reading our article.
How would you decorate with dark parquet?
A dark parquet floor is trendy and presents a modern image of the perfect home, however, it’s very common for you to be lost with all the choice you can have when it comes to wall decor, or even choosing your furniture.
You can start, for example, by imagining wooden furniture to match the parquet if it’s dark wood, or by opting for a leather lounge in light tones to break up the too-dark effect, and highlight your living room.
For decoration and wall paint, you have a wide choice of light colors to brighten up your rooms with beige, powder pink, or even with more originality by opting for warmer colors to match the parquet floor. Another idea would be to choose wallpaper with floral motifs for a medieval style, provided the flowers are small and in light colors so as not to darken the room.
Where to choose decor to match a dark parquet floor?
To choose a decoration to match your dark parquet floor, you can go to a decorating store, and they’ll usually have a ready-made decoration on their premises.
This will give you more ideas about what you’d like to copy in your home, with the possibility of home delivery of furniture and items, and even on-site advisers to give you an opinion on the style you’d like to opt for.
African decor, give your home a style
The first thing to do to enhance a dark-colored parquet floor is to opt for African-style wood decor to match the warm, dark colors of the parquet. This will create an ethnic, exotic atmosphere.
In fact, African materials are derived from a highly vegetalized and wooded environment, resulting in original, natural and often dark decorations. You can play with different materials such as wood, rush, rattan, bamboo, jute and hemp.
What’s more, African objects have the particularity of being handcrafted, and are often one-of-a-kind, which means that they can be sculpted, decorated with shimmering colors or, on the contrary, monochrome. A wide choice is available to personalize your home like no other.
Carved statuettes or wood murals can enhance a darkly hued ambience without overpowering the darker look, but on the contrary, they can be used in a variety of colors.
Wood is a noble and pleasing material, easy to work with to encourage creativity and aestheticism, a true expression of African culture and tradition.
The addition of colorful fabrics, on the other hand, can cut through this aspect to brighten up an already warm ambience.
Variety and originality will undoubtedly add an unmistakable touch of charm to your exotic interior design.
But where to get these decorations? There are several options:
- Specialist stores
- Go to annual trade fairs in major cities with specialized international pavilions to meet international vendors with stands displaying African products.
- Sunday flea markets are full of unsuspected treasures.
- Turn to an antique dealer
- Surf the online African decoration boutiques
