DMA Floors: Design Tips

Color

Adding color is one of the best ways to personalize your home or office.
You will want to choose a color that unites the pieces in your room and you may want to consider pulling a color from the design of the upholstery on your sofa or draperies for your floors.
Warm colors can brighten a room that lacks light, while cool greens and blues have a calming effect. Lighter colors tend to make a room seem more spacious; darker colors provide coziness.
By varying your colors for a room using light, medium and dark hues in light and cool tones this will also create a spacious feeling.
Choosing strong colors for your walls and floors will help to make a room feel cozy.
Stain and soil resistant treatments makes today's lighter color carpet much easier to clean, allowing more decorating options. Medium and darker colors, tweeds, patterns and textures will all help disguise common soil in your home's high traffic areas.
Having your floor color a little darker than your walls and ceiling will help to ground the room.
Whether you choose a floor that is lighter or darker than your walls, select a wall color that contrasts with your floors to add variation and definition to the space.

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There are many factors involved when designing a space. Below are some basics to consider when selecting new floor covering.

Think about what the area will be used for and how much foot traffic it will get to help you to select a floor that will give you the best performance to fit your lifestyle.
Decide on the type of mood you want your space to have and whether it will be formal or casual.
Bring samples and color swatches home to see them in the lighting condition that they will be in and also look at them at different times of the day to see how they appear in the natural lighting conditions.
It’s also helpful to have your paint and fabric swatches on hand when you are out shopping. Texture
Heavy, soft textures add warmth to a room.
Smoother surfaces tend to reflect more light and make a room feel larger, so if you are looking to open an area up avoid heavy textured flooring.

Find your decorating statement piece first for a room and then design around that, such as a patterned area rug or carpet. This piece will act as a focal point for the room.
Patterns help to bring together colors in a room. Whether the pattern is found on a vase, the sofa, or from a painting, choose three colors from that pattern, a light, a medium and a dark hue, to use in the room as the base colors for your decorating scheme. When selecting patterned carpets, be sure that the room is large enough to accommodate at least eight to ten repetitions of the patterned motif.