Matching Your Fort Lauderdale Wood Shutters With Your Existing Wood

How to Incorporate Multiple Wood Types in Your Home

A commonly held belief about hardwood in interior design is that you need to use the same type of wood in every part of your home. That’s not a great idea for a few reasons. The first is that it can be pretty difficult to match the exact wood types: your maple floor, mahogany furniture, and teak wood shutters will naturally look different. Another reason is that if you match all the wood in your home, it all kind of runs together and it doesn’t look very interesting.

What’s more important is to try to coordinate the tone and the grain of the wood in your furnishings. Doing that will give your space a great sense of style without it getting boring or plain.

Coordinating Wood Grains In Your Design

Matching the grain is fairly simple. If your wood flooring is smooth, choose a smooth finish in your wood shutters to match. If your wood floor is wire-brushed or hand-scraped, a similar grain to your wood shutters keeps that exposed rustic style flowing up the wall.

Coordinating Wood Tones In Your Design

Attempting to match wood tones is a little trickier. When choosing the stain of your wood shutters, keep a few things in mind:

• Stick to the same “family” - though you don’t need to perfectly match the species of wood, keep in mind which wood types are more formal or casual. Oak, cherry, and mahogany are all a bit more formal, whereas maple and pine are closer to casual.

• Walls are natural buffers – matching wood furniture to wood flooring is difficult because one is directly on top of the other. Your wall offers a natural buffer between wood shutters and the rest of your decor, giving you wiggle room to play with varying styles.

• Stay Warm or Stay Cool - Most woods naturally carry either a warm or cool tone. Choose wood shutters that match the tone of the room as well as the texture.

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