Welcome to our gallery featuring a large selection of living rooms featuring beautiful dark hardwood flooring.
There is a long-standing argument between supporters of carpet and hardwood. Carpet is by far cheaper than hardwood to install, but doesn’t last as long and is prone to holding pet stains and dander. For allergy sufferers, hardwood is often the best way to relieve indoor symptoms.
While hardwood is certainly beautiful and durable, one of the main complaints against it is that in the winter hardwood can be very cold to walk on. This is true, and the reason why in many of the following designs you’ll see area rugs of varying sizes, colors, and styles.
This gallery features dark hardwood flooring, which is typically associated with contemporary and traditionally styled homes and favored for the contrast with a neutral color palette. Even the darkest floors have a warm undertone that complements more colorful accents.
In the above dual-sided living room, the dark hardwood floors allow the two rooms to flow together while still maintaining distinct seating areas marked by area rugs. As you peruse this living room gallery, watch for the different styles of hardwood floors.
Some will have very thin planks, while others will embrace a much more contemporary wide plank. Some of the floors will not vary at all in tone, like in the above living room, while others will range from planks in a much lighter tone to planks in wood so dark it looks black–all within the same floor!
We hope you’ll love this varied gallery of large and small living rooms as much as we do!
1. Exposed Beams Aesthetically Connected with Flooring
An ornate Southwestern-style archway leads from the dining room into the living room. The way the exposed beams and hardwood floors flow into the room makes the space feel larger and aesthetically connected.
2. Rich Red Tone Distinguishes Space
These dark hardwood floors have a rich red tone that pulls a rich wine color out of the thick fringed curtains on either side of each window. The dark wood is continued throughout the furniture.
3. Feather-Like Grain in Flooring
While many dark wood floors tend to have little variation in color, these have an almost gray and featherlike wood grain.
4. Bamboo Flooring with Thin Planks
Bamboo flooring is considered a hardwood floor, although bamboo is technically a grass. This gorgeous example shows the varying tones and thin planks that pick up each tone in the cowhide rug.
5. Multi-Tonal Flooring in Open-Concept Space
This open-concept living area that flows into the dining room and a galley kitchen is another great example of multi-tonal floors. These have a more dusky tone that complements the modern furniture.
6. Rustic Hardwood Flooring Adds to Natural Feel
A more traditional solid hardwood floor goes perfectly with the exposed wooden ceiling and columns of this rustic great room. Light variation in tone and beautiful wood grain adds to the natural feel.
7. Hardwood Floor Contrasts with Wainscoting in Formal Living Room
The soaring ceiling panels are painted a golden brown that picks up some of the varying tones of the hardwood floor far below. Perhaps the most stunning part of this formal living room is the contrast between the dark flooring and the pristine wainscoting on the walls. Molding details are abundant throughout this elegant room.
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8. Diagonal Planks Add Visual Interest
The rich red tones of this dark floor warm up the cream linen sofas and the light stacked stone of the enclosed fireplace. The planks are laid on a diagonal, which adds another dimension of visual interest.
9. Dark Hardwood Grounds Design in Double-Height Great Room
These ultra-dark wood floors are almost black and contrast beautifully with the white ceilings, built-ins, and fireplace. To bridge the gap between the two colors are shades of silver and gray in the richly textured furniture.
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10. Rich Hardwood Flooring Complements Living Room Color Scheme
These rich dark wood floors vary very little in tone and complement the button-tufted leather sofa against the stately windows. A light cream marble table sits on a white and beige cowhide rug.
11. Wide-Plank Flooring Laid Diagonally
This much more modern living room has wide-plank wood floors stained nearly black laid on a diagonal. Small natural accents, like the stump side tables, add a bit of life to the interior design.
- Source: Zillow Digs
12. Rich Red Tone Flooring Works Well with Wood Furnishings
These smooth, polished red-toned wood floors are a more traditional width and go perfectly with the varied, curved wooden furnishings.
13. Rustic Room Luxuriates in High-End Wood Craftsmanship
This rustic dark wood living room has two large seating areas and fantastic exposed beams across the wide, tall ceilings.
- See more of this home here. Designed by Locati Architects. Photography by Roger Wade Studio.
14. Natural Fiber Area Rug Spread Over Hardwood Floor
The dark wood floors of this modestly sized but comfortable living room are covered by a natural fiber area rug that lends a nautical feel to the blue and white color pallet.
15. Flooring Contrasts and Picks Up Other Colors in Living Space
This gorgeous modern living room features dark hardwood flooring that simultaneously contrasts and picks up some of the more orange tones of the wood of the entertainment center and the wall-mounted television cabinet.
- See more of this home here. Designed by KUBE Architecture.
16. Dark Hardwood Grounds Eclectic Style
This more eclectic-styled living room features dark wood floors with little variation in tone, which allows patterns in the furniture to be more varied and still not compete.
17. Herringbone Patterns Adds Unique Flair
This widely varying dark wood floor is laid in a herringbone pattern, which adds a bit of contemporary flair to this simply decorated living room.
18. Floor Pattern Creates Focal Point for Living Space
The intense variation of these wood floors means that they need to be the focal point of the room. Cream sofas and other solids keep all attention on the floor’s pattern.
19. Dark Wood Brings Solid Undertone to Space
This contemporary living room features a stone tile fireplace and layered patterns. The dark wood flooring adds a solid undertone to the space.
- See more of this home here. Designed by Pohl Rosa Pohl.
20. Formal Living Room Features Subtle Style
This utterly contemporary living room features a few decorative elements that add subtle style to the room. The most unique feature is certainly the built-in sink on one side of the fireplace and the bar area on the other.
21. Hardwood Flows Between Rooms
The beautiful dark wood flooring continues all throughout the main floor of this home, allowing the various seating areas to flow into one another through the wide archways.
22. Wide-Plank Floors in Rich, Dark Stain
This open, spacious living room has wide-plank hardwood floors in a rich black stain that matches the minimalist cabinetry and dark furniture.
- See more of this home here. Designed by Forma Design.
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