Styling floors with wall panels is like spreading butter on warm toast – it’s effortless, satisfying and hard to get wrong!
Several interior design trends can come together with wall panels to bring a feeling of luxury, exclusiveness, and immortal glamor to your home.
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What Type of Flooring Looks Good With Paneled Walls? 8 Hottest Trends & Popular Floors
See our 8 favorite style trends for wall panels, and shop our top picks of the best flooring with wood paneling.
1. Herringbone Patterns
Wall paneling possesses a distinctively clean, smooth look, and pairing this with the craftsmanship and uniformity of herringbone patterns brings a sense of continuity and timeless elegance to your home.
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2 Dark, Rustic Hardwood
Rustic hardwood is defined by its natural beauty and unique sense of character. Pairing dark wood floors with wall paneling offers depth, contrast, and a feeling of warmth to a room.
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3. Distressed Natural Wood
Blending distressed wood with light wall panels combines rustic charm with modern appeal. Possessing the grandeur of a stately home, this look is rooted in history, helping a space feel grounded, regal, and undoubtedly luxurious.
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4. Light Brown Laminate
Laminate offers a smooth, clean finish and texture. Blending this simplicity with equally minimalist wall panels brings a modern, authentic sense of calm and coziness to your space.
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5. Wide Plank Herringbone
Herringbone typically features narrow strips of wood, but a more modern take uses longer, wider planks of flooring. This variation brings an unrivaled sense of space and expansiveness. Paired with wall paneling, it creates a look of effortless luxury and architectural flair.
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6. Narrow Planks
Thinner planks appear both classic and casual, and pairing this fresh textual impact with the timeless beauty of wall panels elongates a room, adds linearity, and creates a refined sense of spaciousness.
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7. Flooring With Prominent Knotholes
Oozing natural character, some hardwood floor species (like maple and hickory) are rich in knots, grain patterns, and organic mineral streaks. This earthy look promotes raw, unfiltered beauty, and it pairs well with the structured aesthetic of wall panels in a space.
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8. High Variation Wood
As a natural product, real wood flooring boasts distinction in every plank. Flooring with high variation encapsulates this natural effect. Even when opting for a bold color or wood-effect wall panel, it creates dynamism and a focal point that gives your room soul.
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FAQs
What Looks Good With Wood Paneling?
Wood flooring, whether it’s solid hardwood, smooth laminate, or textured luxury vinyl, pairs exceptionally with wood paneling.
As a traditional design element, wall panels also pair well with soft, warm lighting and natural decorative accents (think woven baskets and terracotta pottery).
These elements keep your room aligned with the classical feel that wall panels offer to a space, while adding modern luxury and elegance.
What Flooring Looks Good Next to Wood?
Whether you’re styling wood furnishings with new flooring, or choosing a floor for a room that borders wooden floors, here’s a quick guide to what colors, styles, and themes pair well together:
- Smooth wood: Creates a clean, minimalist aesthetic, where the smoothness of the wood blends seamlessly with the surrounding wood furnishings
- Distressed wood: Offers character, depth, and a natural touch to a room, pairing well with wood features (like oak and hickory cabinets)
- Solid wood: Hardwood floors are considered a premium product with distinctive natural charm, and its use in a home with wood wall panels or furnishings looks both minimalist and organically charming
- Neutral colors: Any neutral color pairs well with wood, as it can soften the space or induce a feeling of warmth and coziness, including beiges, creams, grays, and pastel colors
- Tiles/concrete: Creates a contrast to the wood-effect, and offers variation (you can use luxury vinyl tiles or concrete-effect LVT for ease of installation, softness, and added warmth)
What Color Flooring to Use With Dark Paneling?
Dark paneling is versatile. Like a blank canvas, you can style any color flooring with dark walls and it’ll look well-blended and contemporary.
To create a balanced, contemporary interior, opt for lighter colored floors, like brown wood, greige, or travertine-effect LVT (luxury vinyl tiles).
For depth and warmth, choose darker colored floors, like dark brown wood, pine wood, burnt orange wood, dark gray, or black flooring.
For inspiration, consider styling dark paneling with floor colors of:
- Navy blue: Pairs well with light brown wood, griege, gray, distressed wood, and dark brown wood floors
- British racing green: Goes well with medium brown wood, light floor colors, rustic wood flooring, and concrete-effect floors
- Deep red, purple, and burnt orange: Classic wood, pine wood, dark brown wood, cherry wood, and medium brown wood
- Black or brown: Wood, dark brown, light brown, medium brown, light gray, greige, gloss-effect hardwood, and distressed wood
Shop the Look – Find Your Dream Flooring Today
Wood flooring is like a fine wine – years may pass, but it never loses its appeal. Wall panels aren’t new to interior design, and their pairings with wood floors – in modern homes to rustic farmhouses – create warmth, beauty, and a timeless natural allure.
As a family-owned wood flooring store in Ohio delivering across the US, we stock only the best quality flooring, including hardwood, engineered wood, laminate, and luxury vinyl.
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