Inspiration: Dark Walls, Light Floors

This look is the flipside of the trend towards dark floors and white walls. It's a way to create unexpected contrast in a space, and the pairing of richly colored walls with a fluffy white rug can add a little luxury to a room...

The rooms above all incorporate white or beige carpets and rugs to lighten up the floors, while deep grays and purples bring a sense of drama. Dark colors range from accent walls, to wall-to-wall tones, to a pattern of gradated stripes. Light-colored upholstery and textiles anchor furnishings to the floors, while dark pieces seem to float.

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• 2 Jen of Made by Girl's Vintage Chic Home
• 3 Nina's Elegant Modern Pre-War
• 4 The Fahden's Clearly Clean and Simple
• 5 Jen and Rob's Gothic Bungalow

Photos: Lane, Jen, Jill Slater, Allison Vallant, Sarah Rainwater

Comments (9)

I am a fan of dark walls, but some people fear that they can make the room look smaller. I disagree especially if the floor is light, because it allows your eye to expand the space to its fullest visual potential. The dark walls are like looking into space, they go on and on and the light floor does expand the perception of the room boarders.

Cheers!

Yep yep. I love my dark walls and light floors. Delicious.

love it, but white carpet? Clearly no shoes or pets allowed.

Agreed - I'm in love w my So-Brown-It's-Almost-Black walls and white flokati...
...it's really no biggie maintaining the white wool rug - it goes to the cleaners every summer.

Like delicious dark, dark chocolate.
i love dark walls as they are so handsome, rich and opulent... but that second space (bedroom) looks unfinished to me.

I LOVE these rooms! The greys here are saturated, beautiful, non-jarring and easy on the eyes. Paired with cream textiles - awesome!

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I love this look - especially with so much natural light. So pretty!

I have dark grey in my bedroom and does feel any smaller then when it was white.

Ohhh great way to make a large room look much smaller. Specially with the light floors. Attracts the eye down to the floor and gives the impression of the room being smaller.