Too many different wood tones in my new house. Help!
Molly W
5 years ago
I just purchased a beautiful house, but there are so many different wood tones that I'm not sure what to do. There are beautiful maple wood floors, but the color is a bit too orange for me. Then there is gorgeous wide pine, but the color is totally different from the maple. On top of that, the interiors of the windows are different from the frames. (see pics). I was thinking of refinishing all of the wood floors (both the maple and the pine) to be the same color, but I think re-staining the window frames is going to be really expensive. What color could I do the floors that would work with the existing frames for the windows? (The pics are from the listing, so none of the furniture is ours. Also- I'm re-doing the stairs to be the same color as the floors and replacing the railings)
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