Establishing texture throughout your home can make it a warmer, more inviting –and more intriguing –environment. While using loud colors can be an easy way to add dimension to your space, colorful floors are not always an ideal choice, as they’re typically a lifelong investment. We’re here to tell you that it’s possible to create a design that can withstand the years of trends, by using with neutral flooring solutions.
Off-White Alternating Patterned Carpet
One of the best ways to create texture in spaces like your living room and bedroom is by installing a luxe carpet in cream colors that brings with it a ribbed or textured pattern alternating throughout. Our Louis A. Dabbieri line of Lerwick style carpets is perfect for this in the Clay hue, as it seamlessly ties together a room with its off-white based-color. With an alternating striped texture, it can be dressed up for a more formal setting or dressed down with more contemporary furniture pieces. The other wonderful part of having a cream-colored carpet is that any color will pop on this carpet and it can match whatever color-scheme you might have in mind for the rest of the room.
Contrasting Neutrals in Large Prints
Another way to create texture in your space is through large printed neutral carpets that have fun patterns that could be repeated throughout the room. Adding two neutral colors to a space might even expand the colors available for the rest of the rooms décor and can ground the room in a cohesive composition. One such carpet is from our Dabbieri line of Statesville carpets in Gull Ivory. Tying together the shades of ivory white and a gray-blue allows this carpet to bring both cool and warm tones to the room.
Medium-Toned Hardwood in Fine Grain
Hardwood is always a timeless flooring option and for those looking to add the element of texture with their floors, steer towards a more fine-grained hardwood. Look for woods that have plenty of texture naturally within their planks and show off unique knots or other blemishes. For example, the Dabbieri collection carries a line of Le Havre hardwood and this particular hickory shrub hardwood has the characteristics of a lighter wood with its modern wide-planks but shows of the deep-grains of its medium-toned that has been carefully hand-sawn.
Wire-Brushed Luxury Vinyl
If you’re looking for a floor that brings dimension to your space through the texture of real hardwood but is also waterproof and stain-resistant enough to withstand your active lifestyle, wire-brushed luxury vinyl planks are the perfect choice for you. Look for collections that are inspired by woods with larger pores and coarser grains such as pine or oak. Our Dabbieri H2O LVT collection of Jones Point planks are a great example of elegant grain patterns. Choose a neutral, more medium-toned wood in tan to lay out a canvas that can work with endless design themes from traditional to contemporary.