Exposed wood in your Dover home can make it the best on the block. Natural wood floors, cherry wood furniture, or exposed beam work are standard in a handcrafted, luxurious home. And to take it even further, you should accentuate the wood in your interior design with the highest quality Dover wood shutters. Let’s find out how.

How to Incorporate Different Wood Types in Your Home

A misconception about using natural wood in home fashion is that you need to exactly match the wood types across your home. That’s not a great idea for a few reasons. The first is because it can be tricky to exactly match 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 runs together and it doesn’t look very interesting.

What’s more important is to match the tone and the grain of the wood in your furnishings. That’s what will give your space a great sense of direction without it getting too “samey”.

Coordinating Wood Grains In Your Home

Matching wood grains is fairly straightforward. If your wood flooring is smooth, go with a smooth finish for your wood shutters to match. If your wood floor has texture to it, whether it’s wire-brushed or hand-scraped, a similar finish to your wood shutters keeps that natural style flowing across your home.

Coordinating Wood Tones In Your Home

Attempting to match wood tones is a little harder. When deciding on the color stain of your wood shutters, keep these things in mind:

• Try to keep within the same “family” - but you don’t have to perfectly match the species of wood, think about which wood types are more formal or casual. Mahogany and cherry tend to be more formal, while pine and basswood are closer to casual.

• Walls are natural buffers – matching wood furniture to wood flooring is hard since they sit right next to each other. Your wall offers a natural break between the floor and your shutters, giving you more room to play with differing styles.

• Stay Warm or Stay Cool - Most wood species will be naturally warm or cool in tone. Choose wood shutters that match the mood of the room in addition to the texture.

Choose Your Woods in Person

All of this discussion about coordinating styles and grains may seem complicated, but it all comes together when you see it in person. Get a free in-home consultation with your Dover shutter experts today by calling301-835-1611 and we’ll walk you through the steps from start to finish.