Bold & beautiful | Dark wood flooring interior ideas

Nov 01, 2022

Bold & beautiful | Dark wood flooring interior ideas

Dark oak wood flooring is a bold choice and not for the faint-hearted. However, when paired with the correct decor, it can create a timeless, sophisticated, and confident interior.

With shades ranging from hints of mahogany to blackest black, Ecohardwood engineered dark oak flooring collection is sure to meet everyone's needs. For example, Tobacco >> is a deep, rich, natural solid shade. It looks great over Character >> grade oak boards. The use of Tobacco colour to cover cracks, and large or tiny knots, smooths contrast while maintaining a natural look. The Brown Coffee >> oak flooring will add that extra kick to many interiors. One of Ecohardwood's most popular engineered oak flooring colours is Walnut >>. It is lush, warm, and naturally beautiful.

These tips and hints, along with the interiors featuring Ecohardwood engineered oak flooring in dark shades, will give you some inspiration for your renovation project. 

Dark wood flooring in small spaces

The common belief is that dark wood shrinks rooms and makes them too dark, but when balanced with other interior choices, it has the opposite effect. When decorating a small room, dark floors add drama and intimacy and ground the space, making it look more sophisticated and giving it a more prominent appearance. A space can appear bigger when the dark wooden flooring is combined with a cooling, light wall colour.

Projects featuring dark wood floors

These projects feature Ecohardwood engineered oak flooring that is designed to create a stylish, refined space. Dark wood floors enhance golden tones and classic details. Consider pairing your dark wood floors with leather details for a masculine look.

Chevron >> or Herringbone >> patterned dark wood floors will look particularly elegant and luxurious.

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Ecohardwood Chevron 30 >> parquet oak flooring. Colour: Walnut / 3481 >>. Design by Mantas Lataitis, photo by Leonas Garbaciauskas.

Rustic wood flooring interior

Keeping things simple is always a good idea. Using the same colour for solid oak floors and doors creates harmony and aesthetics.

The Walnut colour highlights this rustic interior, and oil is used as a finishing touch. Walnut is one of Ecohardwood's most popular colours. It is lush, warm, and naturally beautiful. It looks great with rustic oak floorboards of a more branched character grade.

We can see the artistic works that nature has created right in front of us: textures and characters instead of a monotone or dull baseboard. The forest outside the window is extended onto the floor, connecting indoor and outdoor spaces.

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Ecohardwood engineered oak flooring. Colour: Walnut /3481 >>. Interior: Doviles Interjeras. Photo: Benas Sileika

Colourful wood flooring interiors

Because dark floors don't show graining as easily, they create a more uniform look and less colour variation. So furniture that is coloured or contrasts with the décor will stand out.

Black and white contrast

This project uses white kitchen cabinets with Ebony Chevron flooring.

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Ecohardwood Chevron engineered oak flooring. Colour: Ebony / 3490 >>. Architect Monika Noreikiene.

Combinations of black (or dark) and white are always stylish and classy.

Dark wood flooring decadence

A dramatic and decadent effect can be achieved by combining dark engineered oak flooring with dark interior pieces such as black kitchen cabinets and black furniture.

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Ecohardwood 2-layer engineered oak Herringbone parquet >>. Colour: Anthracite >>. Grade: Nature >>. Finish: Brushed >>. Width: 85mm x 14mm x 425mm >>. Interior designer: Sabname Salemohamed. Contractor: Platinum Contracts London. Photo: Jot Jot Design. Project in the UK, London, Cranbrook Road.

We recently purchased Ecohardwood engineered oak wood flooring in the Tobacco colour and we couldn’t be happier. The quality is excellent – well made, with a beautiful natural finish. We installed it throughout the whole house and it has completely changed the look and feel of the space, giving it a warm, modern and very natural feel. We did apply a premium hardwax oil, which enhanced the tone and added extra protection. We are extremely happy with our choice and would definitely recommend this floor to anyone looking for great quality and a timeless look.
I recently visited the Ecohardwood showroom in West London and was genuinely impressed. It's beautifully designed and the quality of the products really stands out. Everything is made from real, natural oak and you can see the attention to detail in the craftsmanship. The team were very friendly and knowledgeable. If you're looking for premium engineered wood flooring, made-to-measure oak doors or bespoke oak staircases, I'd definitely recommend visiting the showroom. It's well worth the trip and gives you a much better understanding of the products than looking online. Excellent service and beautiful quality throughout.
We chose Ecohardwood having seen their engineered oak floors (Tobacco) in a friend's house. We found Irmantas a pleasure to deal with. We love the look and finish of the product and chose it in part because it works well with our underfloor heating. There were a few spillages by our builders but the Ecohardwood team have been very helpful in helping our builders to remedy these mistakes. Irmantas has remained very reassuring and calm! We fully recommend the product having lived in our house now for a few months. If I did it again I might use Ecohardwood to do the installation.
We recently worked with Ecohardwood and Gode Interiors on a bespoke oak staircase project. Ecohardwood manufactured the staircase cladding and supplied high-quality oak components, which were beautifully crafted and delivered to a very high standard. The products were well prepared for installation, and the team was knowledgeable, responsive, and easy to work with throughout the project. We would be happy to recommend Ecohardwood to anyone looking for quality oak staircases, flooring, doors, and bespoke joinery.
I bought the floors for 1 of my project. They look amazing, worth every penny. The client is so happy with this flooring. Next projects will suggest to my clients to get this floor. Easy to install...One of the staff which I deal with ( name Renata ), was really helpful. Thank you Renata. Definitely recommend this flooring.
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