We've been looking at a few places and my partner really likes one with wood floors.
I myself have always preferred light coloured carpet as I feel it "lifts" the room. Your eye isn't drawn downward due to darker floor colouring and lighter walls, you know?
And I was thinking to myself, there ARE some wood flooring looks I like a lot, but they tend to always be slightly lighter more warm / honey coloured wood, and they're also in places that are quite luxurious in terms of the furnishings...AND the size of the rooms is big so the darker floor doesn't shrink the room...AND they have downlights so you get bursts of light on the floor, again "lifting" it...
And then I also realised that the walls tend to be WHITE. Not cream or a really noticeable off white, but actual WHITE WHITE. Or if not completely bright white, COOL variation of white. Not warm variations.
And in any place we ever buy that happens to have wood floors, we won't be able to afford downlights, we'll have no say over the size of the room, our furniture is quite nice as it is, but what we COULD do is change the wall colour.
Do you agree that totally white walls suit darker wood floors better than cream walls?
Here are some pics...
This one is a room I really like. It's got quite a lot of furniture but it's light and bright with variations of white...
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And here's a link to a place that I like also cause it's bright and white...CRISP...just the first / main picture on the screen is my example.
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-a ... price-desc
But then there's this one...if you click on the pic on the top right of the 2 rows of pics, the walls probably are white, but they appear to have a slight yellowy tinge, which to me really makes the whole room look quite BLAH.
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-u ... price-desc
And this one here...it's got cream and neutral coloured walls, which I like, but not with the wood floors...it's all NICE, but I just don't like it. I think the fact the room is small doesn't help my feelings though either.
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Anyone agree? That wood floors go best with bright cool crisp white?