Transition from Brazilian Cherry to.... Dark Grey?

6 years ago

Hi!

My wife and I have been talking about redoing a room in the house for months. I'm wondering if the Houzz community can help us seal the deal finally and make some decisions.

We're looking to theme this room and make sure it blends in with the rest of the house (this is our struggle). The paint colors are decided on and are here to stay. Currently the room looks like this:

The wall colors are Sherwin WIlliams Temperate Toupe. It's a little faded in the current lighting in the photo. But during the day it looks pretty nice. It's like a very lightweight tan color, with a purplish tint to it maybe? The furniture will all go away and be replaced, so ignore that. The light fixture will be replaced with a ceiling fan and LED.

But what we can't make a decision on is the window treatments and flooring.

For the window treatments, what would you recommend? The sun pours through the large window and blinds us in the mornings. So we prefer roller shades or roman shades. However we can't seem to find what we're looking for. I'm not sure if we are being too picky or not looking in the right places or need to rethink it. We're focused on fairly plain, modern looking roller or roman shades in purple or gray. Should we stick to that? Perhaps consider something else?

The furniture we're planning to put in would be a couch (ideally purple but this may be hard to find) and a desk (grey or white).

The other piece of this is the floor. We're not looking for carpet. I am thinking tile would be ridiculous. But hardwood or luxury vinyl might work pretty well. We're a little concerned about blending the room properly into the adjoining foyer though. The foyer has Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor. If we put in a dark gray wood floor in this room, could it potentially look weird?

We picked up some samples from local stores. I think we are mostly considering the 2nd from the right - a deep dark gray with some similar pattern to the Brazilian Cherry. Whatever floor we would choose, which direction should be chosen? Should the planks be placed perpendicular to the transition? Should the planks be placed perpendicular to the foyer planks?

This ended up being a long discussion topic, so I appreciate those that made it this far...

Thanks for any help you can give!

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Fori

6 years ago

The wood floor appears to be oak, so if you want to match the grain, look at oak. I think it would be best to go completely different, though. I'd do it all the same, but it's okay that you want to do something different! :)

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Bunny
6 years ago
I think it's oak.
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User
6 years ago
Definitely not Braz Cherry! Also gray toned floors are nearing the end of their popularity run I think so I would just use the oak so it all flows.

Hardwood flooring is placed perpendicular to the joists so unless you are adding another layer of 3/4 inch subfloor, the direction is determined by your framing.
Susie .
6 years ago
Looks like oak, which is good because it would be easy to find similar and either stain it to match or refinish it all in a different stain. Don’t do a wood look alike next to wood. It will look odd and you probably won’t like it. One of the best ways to create flow from room to room is have the same flooring. As far as the Roman shades, think about color as you furnish the room. If you’re going to have purple furniture, by all means have purple shades, but put together a plan and make sure that everything will work together.
jay06
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
I agree with others that your current flooring is not Brazilian cherry. I don't think going to a dark grey flooring would flow very well, going from a very warm brown to a cool grey, especially if you're keeping the warm tan on the walls. If you're determined to do a different wood look, I'd consider a much lighter flooring than the foyer, maybe a whitewashed white oak or a light ash.
picnichome
Original Author
6 years ago
You all are right, it is Oak. I'm not sure where I got Brazilian Cherry from. I thought I had read this on the old box of hardwood leftovers.

What we can't budget for yet is refinishing all the hardwood to match the same color. I don't think we considered putting in the SAME wood floor - I think we assumed it wouldn't match or we wouldn't be able to find the match. But it is a good idea we hadn't entertained yet. It would probably look good if the wood was set perpendicular to the foyer to help with the separation of spaces.

I think our thoughts were the same as yours Jay06. Though we were leaning for it to not pop out so much. I believe the sample on the far right in the picture is actually light ash or white ash.
SJ McCarthy
6 years ago
I would feel comfortable throwing in a wood floor that is identical in species (which oak???something tells me that is red oak...) cut and width. Once it is in, you can then throw on the finish of choice. In the future, you can always sand/refinish everything in the same finish to get the flow BACK into the home.

Oh...and before you do that, make sure the original floor CAN BE refinished. There is nothing worse than finding out LATER that your plan for "refinish at a later date" won't work....'cause the wood is engineered and does not have a thick enough wear layer.

Just something to keep your eye on.
Fori
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Maybe "Brazillian cherry" was the stain. It's got a nice rich color. If you hire a professional hardwood company to do a site-finished floor, they can match that without having to refinish the old.

And if you still have that old box around, see what brand it is and if they still offer that stain. And drag a sample shopping to see if any prefinished floors match. (And see if the old floor is solid or engineered.)
picnichome
Original Author
6 years ago
yep, you're right. we've got an old box of the original wood floor lying around. we were able to identify it. stain is just "cherry" and the wood is solid hardwood.

The original product number can't easily be found anymore, but very, very similar products are available. We're debating whether to throw in the same floor (same wood and stain), or to go with a dark, dark gray color wood, or a light Ash color. We can't decide!