I agree with the above comment. Congrats on your log home!

Dark Browns to caramel colors will work. But bring a sample color with you to shop flooring or bring lots of samples home to get the right color. Probably not a grey, maybe a brown/charcoal mix though.

The rooms I leaned towards had a contrast between floor and walls. I'd really like to see your knotty pine to see color...

I think a slate floor is a natural with log homes.

slate: brilliant!

If it were my cabin, I would go a darker wood floor like the 2nd and 3rd photos miacometlady posted. Gorgeous.

No wood on the floors because it's just too much wood. A large format grey porcelain could work.

Florim AFRIKA porcelain tile Comes in all different sizes

I hope you go with stone for one main living space - and add floor heat mats underneath the tiles! Delicious.

Not grayish color for sure. Get a few samples but the brownish hues will be better. The slate works really well also and is easy to keep looking good.

I had a log home with medium brown logs. The floor was a yellowish knotty pine. It was a LOT of wood. But people buying log cabins usually like wood!

I did three things to address the wood overload:

1. Lots of attractive lighting fixtures. The wood just soaks up light, and people always commented on the higher-end lighting we used.

2. All interior walls were sheet-rocked, not paneled. This is not any less authentic. In a "real" log cabin, the structural walls are stacked log. But there is no reason interior walls need to mimic that. Mine were painted an off white that coordinated with the chinking.

3. I put Stark red wood wall to wall with a sort of striated coloration in the entire second floor. We were in a clay soil area, and that carpet will last a decade. I know a lot of people look down on wall to wall, but in that setting it did not look dated at all.

I also love the look of slate with tile, but agree with those who point out the issues with coldness and hardness. I developed plantar fasciitis from running in my early 40's, and could. It walk on tile floor without shoes at all, for over a year.

Another thing - some log homes are constructed so that the wood flooring on the second story is structural. Tiling over it is basically paying for your floor twice. Less expensive subfloor I g is. It used, because the upstairs finished flooring is the same boards as the downstairs finished ceiling.


Finally, those big slabs of slate are not tile - they are rocks! The floor needs to be engineered to support them. They look great in larger spaces, but regular slate tile in uniform shapes may not.

Above should read "less expensive subfloors get is not used"

So if you want to keep the wood floors or you are adding new wood flooring (I'm not sure based on your post) maybe go with reclaimed plank flooring (wide) and color it like a pumpkin pine color. Nice rustic look without a too drastic contrast?

My suggestion is ... if the walls are busy, you could go with a more plain wood flooring, lighter or darker, but in the same color hue of the walls whether brownish, tanish, redish or grayish. If the walls are not too busy, you could consider a busier floor. My overall consideration would be contrast rather than matching walls and flooring ... Jack@LogHomesByJack.com

We have ash floors which was a challenge since there was a shortage. The ash has more of a reddish tone to it than the pine floors in our master bedroom and 2nd floor. There are very few knots in the ash flooring, but the pine is another story altogether. Rugs also work well but the floors will develop "shadows" over time where the rugs and furniture sit. I've been moving all mine around and removing some altogether..

I'd be concerned about the movement of the house during the seasons and the tiles. I know our house moves and I'd be concerned about cracking mortar/grout or tiles coming up.

I lived in a home that had ceramic tile on half of the first floor and had foot and knee pain when in the kitchen a lot and ended up wearing shoes in the house during the 12 years.

Someday when we refinish our floors I think I'd have them stained darker. We just used clear sealer on ours.

Would you consider Slate flooring? I did it in my log cabin basement. The varied thickness of the slate helped balance out an uneven floor (tricks the eyes) and the varying color was a great contrast to the wood walls. Home Depot $1.49/sq ft