Matching Your Bakersfield Wood Shutters With Your Existing Wood
Exposed wood in your Bakersfield home could make it the best on the block. Hardwood flooring, mahogany furniture, or visible wood beams are trademarks of a handcrafted, luxurious home. And if you want to take it a step further, you could match the wood in your interior design with the highest quality Bakersfield wood shutters. Sunburst will teach you how.
The Best Way to Incorporate Different Wood Types in Your Home
A commonly held belief about hardwood in decorating is that you need to match the wood species across all parts of your home. That’s not the best idea for a few reasons. The first is because it can be tricky to match the exact wood types: your engineered wood floor, mahogany furniture, and teak wood shutters are going to naturally vary in tone. The second reason is that if you match all the wood in your home, everything kind of runs together and it doesn’t look very interesting.
The more important thing is to try to coordinate the tone and the grain of the wood in your interior. That’s what will give your home a great sense of flow without it being boring or plain.
Coordinating Wood Grains In Your Home
Matching wood grains is fairly easy. If your wood flooring is smooth, choose a smooth finish for your wood shutters to match. If your wood floor is textured, a similar finish to your wood shutters keeps that exposed rustic style flowing all through your space.
Coordinating Wood Tones In Your Home
Attempting to match wood tones is a little harder. When picking the finish of your wood shutters, keep a few things in mind:
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Stick to the same “family” - though you don’t have to match the wood species exactly, remember which wood types are more formal or casual. Cherry and oak are more formal, while pine, maple, and basswood are closer to casual.
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The wall is your natural buffer – matching wood furniture to a wood floor is a little tricky because one is directly on top of the other. Your wall is a natural buffer between wood shutters and the rest of your decor, giving you more room to experiment with differing styles.
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Stay Warm or Stay Cool - Most wood species naturally carry either a warm or cool tone. Make sure your shutter stain choice complements the tone of the room as well as the texture.
