It’s time for a new dining room table, but what color table will look best with your dark wood floors?
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We’ve scouted around to see what designers are suggesting for this home interior combination. Here’s what we found out:
Some of the best color dining tables to go with dark wood floors are:
- Dark Brown
- Off-White
- Antique Woods
- Light Butcher BlockÂ
- White and Gray
- Antiqued Gray
Keep reading for more details and tips on choosing the perfect table for your space!
The Best Color Dining Tables For Dark Wood Floors
Dark wood floors add rich elegance to your home, but they need careful balancing with other design elements.
To avoid a space that’s too dark, consider these dining table options that look fantastic with dark wood floors.
Dark Brown Wooden Dining Table
Rich, dark hardwoods run through this beautiful open-concept kitchen and dining area. The white kitchen, light walls, and natural light make room for a darker dining table.
A deep wood tone matching the floor makes the table stand out, while the light rug prevents it from blending into the floor.
Off-White French Provincial Table
This breezy and elegant dining room features stunning hickory gray flooring. The wood’s cool mid-dark tone invites out-of-the-box design choices.
Here, an antique French Provincial-style table painted in a patinaed eggshell stands out against the flooring and the gorgeous green walls, perfect for a classic home or apartment.
Antique Oak Table With Upholstered Creme Chairs
Dark wood floors are often found in more traditional or transitional decor styles.
In this transitional dining room, the designer mixed an antique oak dining table with slightly darker walnut-toned floors.
The table is surrounded by a lighter-colored rug, and the chairs are upholstered in creme-colored fabric. This keeps the room’s overall feel from being too overbearing.
Light Butcher Block Dining Table With Metal Legs And Colorful Chairs
The wood floors in this fun eat-in kitchen are a deep, dark color. The rest of the room is light and playful, creating an effect that is warm and inviting but not overpowering.
Here, a butcher block in light maple has been combined with light metal legs. This table picks up on the industrial yet warm feel of the flooring.
In addition, the mismatched chairs in white and red give a joyous bit of punctuation to the space.
White And Gray Looks Great With These Dark Floors
Here’s another beautiful dining room. The dark floors have gray tones that the designer has incorporated into the furnishings.
A contemporary laminate-topped table with steel legs is paired with gray leather bucket chairs. Like some of our other rooms, light curtains, walls, and rugs keep things from getting too dark.
Antiqued Gray Wooden Table
Sometimes, simplicity is the best solution. Gray hardwood floors are matched with a simple gray wooden table in this beautiful dining and kitchen area.
No rug is used, which leaves the area feeling very clean and minimal, even with classic design touches.
How Do You Match A Table To The Floor?
When matching a table to your floor, your thought process should go broad. Is your floor super dark? What about your walls?
If the answer is yes to both, then you’ll want to pick out a table that is slightly lighter than both, or you may end up with a suffocating space.
So, instead of matching the table to the floor, think of working the table into your overall decor.
In this subtle space, a black round dining table is set against an extremely dark floor.
However, the bright white walls, abundant natural light, and modern white chairs make this work. In another setting, the table might be too dark for the floor.
Should Furniture Be Darker Or Lighter Than The Floor?
“Should” is one of those tricky words when it comes to home interiors. There are so many variables within each design.
Perhaps we should reframe the concept to reflect the best contrast between furniture and flooring.
For many people, going lighter when you have darker floors or darker when you have lighter floors is a good rule of thumb.
But as you’ve seen in some of the images we’ve presented here, a tone-on-tone approach is possible. Both can look great.
This room exemplifies the light furniture on the light floors approach. The difference between white and gray is subtle, but there is still a contrast.
This comfortable living room is a solid example of choosing lighter furniture pieces and rugs when you have dark hardwood floors.
In this room, choosing dark furniture pieces would really darken up the interior as the natural light is subdued.
What Is The Best Color For A Dining Table?
The simple answer is that there is no best color for a dining table. However, there may be the best color for your design.
Again, think of the overall mood you want for your dining space. Is it going to be elegant, comfortable, or playful? Your answer to that question may affect your decision.
A homey oak table like this works for more casual dining spaces. The warmth of the wood and the addition of the bench seating give it a timeless farmhouse feel.
This glass-topped table with contemporary chairs is perfect for a casual kitchen with modern, fun designs.
Though this is a set, you could even find a glass table like this and pair it with mismatched chairs in bright colors or upholstery.
What Color Furniture Goes With Dark Wood Floors?
If we’re thinking beyond the dining room table to other pieces of furniture, let’s turn to our family and living rooms. Are their colors that work better with dark wood floors?
As mentioned, it comes down to many other factors. Do you have an abundance of natural light? Are your walls also painted dark? What is the overall design mood you’re trying to achieve?
Each answer will impact your choices in furniture colors.
Typically, lighter furniture pairs well with dark floors.
In this light-filled loft, dark floors are complemented by neutral, medium to light-toned furniture. Only the lighting fixture and ceramic planter match the floor’s darkness.
That being said, some folks choose dark furniture with darker floors. The dark-on-dark tones may work for your design if you want to convey elegance and coziness.
Choose What You Love And What Works With Your Design
Ultimately, the dining table you choose should be one you love. From the silhouette to the color to the material, furnishings uniquely make our style and home our own.Â
We hope this post has been helpful to you, and if you enjoyed it, please check out a few of our others below:
The Ideal Dining Table Height (And how to match the height of chairs)
Should The Dining Table Match The Floors?
