How to style your home with mixed solid wood
Mixed-material furniture adds personality and style to your room. The luxurious feel and resilience from a combination of oak, walnut, cherry, painted wood, marble, and metal can lead to a timeless look that is so peculiar. This kind of furniture has an extraordinary allure, where it determines the warmth of wood against marble coolness or metal coolness. Whether your furniture is intended for the dining area, living room or bedroom, mixed-material is simply about freedom for maximum creativity while featuring classics quality and style.
Dining Room: Combine Light and Dark Wood Color for Better Contrast
Both light and dark woods should be used on the dining room to ensure that it looks good. This in turn permits a manipulation of color and texture to contrast with what transmits a good and balanced appearance. This can be illustrated by the perfect example: Having a light coloured wooden dining table and chairs with a dark walnut sideboard. The contrast will play the interest and at the same time maintain the warmth in the house not forgetting to make it classy.
These are seen in our Kotala, Seattle, and Nest Walnut Round dining tables as in combination between the cold marble and the wood grain is epitomical of how one can have genuinely elegant dining in space. This battle of the surfaces of smooth modern looking marble against the natural grain of walnut wood is a sheer luxury albeit subtle. The ambiance and appeal this setting gives out-poignantly caught between tradition and modernity-speak volumes to fulfill the needs of this space, from everyday meals taken to special occasions.
To add some style to it, one can also arrange dining chairs with upholsteries of fabric or leather in complementing shades. Mixing textures such as fabric, wood, and marble offers a layering effect to add depth and warmth to the space and elevate the feel of the dining area.
Living Room: Use Bold Colors with Metallic Accents
The living room is one of those spaces where bold design choices can really shine, and mixed material furniture is an excellent tool for pulling off this feat. One surefire way to add some real oomph to your space is to introduce pops of vibrant color via your sofa or accent chairs. Whether it be a bold fabric sofa in jewel tones like emerald green or a rich leather sofa in deep burgundy or mustard yellow, colorful furniture serves as the room's centerpiece and brings life into a room. Add energy with it, personality, and style.
Balance out bold color usage in seating with metallic accents via your coffee table, side tables, or shelving units. Brass, copper, or brushed gold accents in metal provide a sleek modern touch that counters the warmth of the wood amazingly. For instance, a coffee table with metal legs and a wooden top will bring style and an industrial vibe into the living room without allowing it to be cold. Wooden shelves with a metal frame bring in this beautiful mixed material style to your living room, where function meets form.
Bedroom: Get the Natural Feel with the Use of Solid Wood Furniture
The next place where mixed-material furniture can give a tranquil yet stylistic atmosphere is the bedroom. Solid hardwood furniture forms the base of a bedroom with cohesive and natural design elements. A solid hardwood bed frame can be composed of warm-finish oak, matched with wooden bedside tables and a dresser for a balanced look. This concoction brings into the room not only calmness and serenity but also shows the nature that is embedded in the grain of the wood.
You can add a little contrast and some depth by adding in some darker-wood furniture, such as a walnut wardrobe, or introduce an accent chair with metal legs or fabric upholstery. Mixing wood tones-like light oak with dark walnut-provides visual variety without overwhelming the space. A darker piece of wood, like a wardrobe or chest of drawers, becomes a bold statement while keeping the natural feel of the room.
However, neutral bedding and rugs can provide a softer touch to the strong presence of the wood furniture. Neutral tones in textiles let the grain of the wood be noticed while making it peaceful and inviting. You may throw some comfort and warmth in with the addition of textured cushions or throws to balance out the natural hardness of the wood with soft tactile materials.
Infusing mixed-material furniture into the design of a home adds a depth and style that speaks personality into any room. Whether mixing marble, metal, and wood in the dining room; bold colors with metallic accents in the living room; or using solid wood pieces to create a natural, serene bedroom-mixed material furniture serves up countless possibilities for stylish and functional design. Head to the Oak Furniture Store website to browse the full ranges, you can create a timeless look that is modern yet inviting by thoughtfully combining materials and textures.
- OFS Team
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