Tips for Choosing a New Floor Color

In addition to browsing through attractive flooring textures, finishes, patterns, and species, you will also need to land on a gorgeous color when selecting new floors! As you look to achieve design harmony within your rooms, your new flooring color should balance visual elements like wall paint colors, cabinetry, furniture, drapery, rugs, pillows, and other furnishings. With modern flooring products offering a tremendous number of choices and variations to design with, at times the process can begin to feel slightly daunting!

However, there’s no need to be overwhelmed: Choosing a new floor color isn’t necessarily as easy as picking out your favorite shade on a color wheel, but there are plenty of savvy considerations you can take to make an excellent choice. To enjoy your flooring investment as much and as long as possible, try these helpful tips for choosing a floor color:

Using Natural Light to Choose a Floor Color

Whether you have a large room or a tight space, plenty of bright natural light or need more artificial light to illuminate your interiors, your ideal flooring color will use the available light to set the perfect mood. Smaller spaces will feel larger and more spacious when you use natural light to work with lighter flooring shades like white, cream, blonde, light greys, greige, beige, and light brown. Light colors will reflect natural light for an illusion of open space and help to minimize the horizon line in the room with lighter wall colors.

If your floorplan receives plenty of natural light and doesn’t feel dim, dark, or confined, now you are open to using a completely wide range of colors. The darker the flooring shade that you want to use, it becomes even more important to balance the floors with lighter-colored furnishings and drapes to prevent a cave-like feel.

Use Flooring Samples to Choose a Floor Color

After using our helpful room visualizer to see different flooring colors in your rooms, now it’s extremely important to get flooring samples to truly assess how different products will actually appear. As much as you may love a style online, colors can appear very differently in your hand than they do on the screen. You will be able to view how different swatches will appear in specific rooms, especially if your space receiving new floors extends across more than one room. Natural lighting will change throughout the course of the day and flooring samples will allow you to get a better feel of how your floors will look at all hours.

Use Flooring Color to Match an Aesthetic

If you are selecting a new floor to enhance a preferred design aesthetic, there are already some common queues for each style that can serve as valuable starting points:

• Coastal Design: Cool, lighter tones will always bring in the breezy, airy vibe indoors.
• Traditional Design: A wide range of flooring tones from light shades, greys, medium browns, to even rich, darker shades that will emphasize classic colors.
• Farmhouse Rustic: Any flooring color that displays natural character, gorgeous characteristics, reclaimed visuals, or distressed markings.
• Modern & Contemporary Design: Look for white, gray, graphite, and deep, dark-stained flooring tones for minimalism or interiors that emphasize clean lines.
• Bohemian Design: Eye-catching mixed-shade floors with plank variation are a perfect match.

Use Design Inspiration to Choose a Floor Color

In these modern times, it’s never been easier to find design inspiration at your fingertips. In addition to using all of the resources on the Dolphin Carpet & Tile website, such as the Tile Trends & Ideas page or the Carpet Trends & Ideas page, you can find your creative spark with room scenes on Pinterest, Facebook, or Instagram. You can also try taking a fun online quiz that will offer flooring color suggestions that match your preferences and personality. There’s no exact science to becoming inspired but it always helps to look at other amazing flooring examples.

Once you have narrowed your favorite flooring colors, it’s time to get flooring samples in hand so that you can compare them against the walls, furniture, and lighting in your home. Reach out to our flooring experts for any product suggestions and visit one of our ten locations to finalize your new flooring selection!