What is the natural lighting like what is your furniture like? Flooring is chosen to work with both of those things

Both are nice shades. I’d base decision on furniture choices, any stone, or beams, etc

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Even having an easterly exposure, you may experience fading with a darker flooring. Obviously, this will depend upon the size of your windows/doors and the angle/ hours of sunlight in your area.

I really love both choices. natural lighting is the most important to me, so I vote to go for the light floors. it's more forgiving when it comes to pet hair and stuff too, it will be a little less noticeable.

Maureen I love that inspiration pic! gorgeous.

Lis - hey! I would go with the lighter floors for the most light (so light bounces off of them as well). We went with black concrete floors in our house and we joke it's where light comes to die :) even though we have a ton of windows and glass doors.

With everything else being so light, if you get a decent amount of natural light and appropriately light the space with fixtures, lamps, etc. you really can go either way. Just consider that you’ll want the whole of the spaces to have light, med and dark elements for contrast and dimension, so incorporate your furniture choices into your floor selection process. Easier to swap out a chair or rug if room feels too dark or light vs changing flooring.

That light sample reads too yellow for me. We're using a more ashy light tone in our renovation of an old Alpine stone house in a ski resort. You can always "tone down" a light floor with colourful carpets, but it's hard to lighten up a darker floor. Also, as someone said, in a previous house we've seen dark wood floors bleach horribly where furniture and carpets sit. Plus we have a south-facing bank of windows looking out at 320 degrees of snowy mountains, so the light is blinding.

Sample on the right looks too yellow . I like the sample on the left

The darker sample is not "dark" and looks much more neutral than the yellowish light sample. I would not want yellow floors.

You can definitely lighten up dark floors with lighter colored rugs, but I don't think that would be necessary in this case.

I believe that floors should be darker than the walls, and the walls should be darker than the ceiling, and this makes the room look bigger, as darker floors recede more than lighter ones.

It is much more important to have light bouncing off of ceilings than off of floors.