Interior design - can I use light wood and dark wood together?

Jeremy

I live in a fairly new flat. Most of the furnishings are light wood (light beech) including all doors, kitchen cabinets, hallway flooring. I've recently bought dark wood (chocolate) blinds for the living room and tv cabinet. Can I mix the two colours in the living room? I don't want to overwhelm the living room with too many dark furniture pieces and I also want to try and tie it into the rest of the flat.

Is light wood mixed with dark wood a big no, no - or can I pull this off somehow? I was thinking of perhaps getting a beech coloured coffee table and a few beech shelves?

Advice appreciated!!

Answer
Yes, you can definitely mix both colors of wood. We often use both dark and light color wood combinations in custom flooring. They have to blend well or "match" each other, but other than that, have fun and let your creativity loose!

Please help me design my house?

Kiara

I want to make my house pretty :) on a tight budget :(
I will outline what furniture is in each of the rooms, and can you help me come up with a colour scheme, what to buy, picss etc?

Lounge: cream lounges, cream walls, cream carpet, cream blinds, blue shaggy rug, brown timber coffee table, brown timber wine rack, black TV cabinet, black frames on walls, blue lamp.

Dining room: white table, grey & white chairs, lace tablecloth, cream carpet, cream walls, house plant on table.

Master bedroom: black, blue & pink doona, dark brown timber furniture (bed, tallboy, bedside tables, dutchess).

Spare room: mattresss, heap of egyptian statues and frames on walls, white bedside table, and a lounge I need to recover. I need to buy a bed frame, doona, and recover a lounge. We were thinking gold and black to make an egyptian themed room?

Study: beech and charcoal office furniture (hutch, desk, side desk, filing cabinets, book case), black office chair, a lounge to recover, degree in a timber frame. Was thinking beech, charcoal, and aqua?

Then theres also the kitchen and just sort of an "area" where theres two couches to be recovered. I don't know what to recover them with....

Answer
Better to approach an interior designer to help your for that matter..

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