{"id":8117,"date":"2019-06-24T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T08:38:02","slug":"grey-floors-the-essence-of-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/grey-floors-the-essence-of-elegance\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Floors – The Essence of Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nColouring wooden floors <\/a>grey might not at first seem like an obvious choice, but grey floors are now very much taking center stage. White wood floors have been the rage for many a year but now it’s time for greys to steal the show. Not convinced? Let’s look into this further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White and grey paints and wood finishes used to create a study area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why colour wooden floors grey?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other than breaking away from the look of traditional wooden floors, grey works particularly well with layers of texture bringing this otherwise neutral colour to life. As with whites, greys are great at achieving a crisp, minimalistic yet inviting Scandinavian feel to home interiors. The additional benefit of grey tones is that they can help to create the illusion of space in small, confined rooms. Grey is also a great contrasting colour that can complement other vibrant colour shades such as blues, golds, oranges, pinks, reds, yellows, white and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many shades of grey are there?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is a tricky one to answer. Although the human eye is capable of detecting around 10 million unique colours give or take, it’s said that there are probably no more than several hundred shades of grey. Depending on what you read, the exact figure varies from between 200 to 450. Interestingly, scientists say that humans can only detect around 30 of these which all seems a bit odd and somewhat confusing. So for those that say they have seen ’50 shades of grey’, we say – “perhaps not” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking the perfect grey tone for floors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Grey can be as subtle or impactive as you like. The great news is that as a result of its growing popularity, a wide selection of ready-to-use grey floor paints, varnishes, stains and floor oils are all readily available. For the more adventurous where a standard shade will just not do, there’s always the option of combining black and white wood oils, wood stains or dyes to create your own unique grey floor finish, be it a dark slate grey or something more silver like. As with white paints, there’s also a demand for lightly tinted greys, such as grey with a hint of green, blue or bronze. These colour tinted greys can also be achieved by carefully experimenting with water or solvent-based wood stains, dyes and oils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help you through the process of picking the perfect grey tone for your wooden floors, we have compiled an infographic with some of the more popular grey colour shades that our customers are using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Popular grey tones for wooden floors<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Recommended products for a grey floor finish<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With a multitude of possibilities in terms of products and the grey tones they produce, it can be tricky picking the one that’s right for your floor project. To help, we’ve short listed some of the most popular products, as chosen by our customers to help you achieve grey floor perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n