Designing Bedrooms with Wood Floors (Types to Use)
Welcome to our design gallery of beautiful bedrooms with wood floors. The rich, warm look of wood flooring is highly sought after for use in luxury interior designs. Wooden flooring increases a home’s resale value and can help cut down on airborne particles often shed by carpets. Below, you’ll find a variety of bedrooms with wood floors to give you ideas for designing your perfect retreat.
There are many different options for flooring, ranging from hard, cool tile surfaces to the rich, seamless feel of carpet and even to the retro, economical feel of vinyl. There is no better and more popular floor material than wood. This is because it is good at absorbing heat and sound yet comes in a variation of rich colors, tones, and grains, with some species being readily available locally and others being top-of-the-line luxury items. [toc]
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Wood Flooring Types
In the image above, natural elements come together with this contemporary bedroom’s clean, cool tones. Grey bed sheets and a mid-century modern sofa in white upholstery accent the rough stone wall behind the headboard. Hickory hardwood floor planks continue directly to the outside patio, which features luxe outdoor furniture.
When using wood, one important but often overlooked aspect is checking if the materials used are locally available. Aside from being cheaper and more environmentally friendly in terms of harvest and transport, choosing a local wood ensures that the species is familiar with the particular climate and weather conditions of the region you want to build in.
Some lumber can warp more than others when exposed to elements, and others have better cold absorption properties, so besides choosing a type because of its look and grain, how your wood floor can serve your home better is a good thing to know. Check out this page for our types of wood floors gallery with pictures.
Here are a few common wood species used as flooring:
Oak – There are so many different types of Oak that it is one of the most commonly used varieties despite its large variation in look and texture. Oak is a great choice, as almost every continent has its own oak species that are native to it, so this fine-grained hardwood will always be a classic option for flooring.
Hickory – Because of its rough grain, Hickory is well known for its durability and resistance to heat, sound, and static charge. Just like Oak, Hickory comes in a variety of shades, from a wispy whitish finish to a darker coffee brown. Hickory’s advantage over Oak is that it is cheaper; however, it is pretty high maintenance and does not thrive well in areas with high foot traffic.
Cherry – Known for its rich, warm tone, this material is also known to evolve and turn a darker, richer shade as it ages. Because of this, Cherry is often treated to bring out a high polished finish, which brings out its fine, straight grains.
Walnut – Also often used for large, heavy wooden furniture because of its beautiful ribbon grain, Walnut is also prized because of the natural color tone variation that can occur in a single board or plank. Usually of a richer brown tone, the natural Walnut grain is wavy and can come out in concentric knots. This type is perfect for contemporary bedrooms that want to bring in a more Classic or Vintage feel.
Pine – Known for its yellowish tone and lightweight work-ability, Pine also features a lot of brown knots, giving it a rustic, cottage-style appeal. Its biggest weakness, however, is that it is a softwood and is highly susceptible to scratching and even denting.
This type is becoming more popular again due to the revival of Scandinavian-style interiors, with pine planks being bleached or sanded further to give it a more whitish or faded brown look. Known for its light color marred by large dark knots, pine is a good option for more cottage-style setups and can lend a rich country vibe to any bedroom.
Exotic woods – Many exotic wood species have very interesting tones and patterns. Tigerwood, with its rich stripes, is also naturally resistant to mold and fungus as rot and decay. Known for its unique grain and deep red-orange hues, Tigerwood is a durable, albeit highly exotic, choice for flooring. In a simple room setting, the rich grain of the plank flooring gives drama in a room with plain dark stained drawers, a bed frame, and a side table.
Another exotic favorite known for its black and white striations is Zebra wood, which is resistant to insects but could prove difficult to plane or surface largely due to its finely interlocking grain. One of the most popular yet hard-to-work exotic woods is Ebony, with a very fine grain and very deep black tone which can be polished to a high luster.
Bedroom Wood Flooring Ideas
This Master bedroom suite starts with a decadent lounge area with a grey velvet Lawson sofa fronting a central Ottoman above a rattan weave rug. A pair of white pillars supporting a linear architrave separates the lounge from the main suite, which features a massive bed with chevron pattern side tables on a diamond pattern rug. The bedroom culminates with a sloped cove ceiling and a gold lampshade candelabra at the very center. The whole master suite features continuous wooden flooring using pale brown-grey Scandinavian lumber.
Oak Floors
Dark oak floorboards run horizontally all along this gigantic beach house suite, contrasting beautifully with the white stone tile flooring on the open-air balcony. The ornate ceiling cove echoes this bedroom’s old classic luxury feel, as does the bed with its rusticated design and tufted white bed sheets. Floor-to-ceiling picture windows all around the room bring in magnificent ocean views.
Light yellowish wood floor planks are a good choice for a bedroom with cooler tones. With light blue-grey walls, a white bead board ceiling, and white linen sheets, the yellowish oak gives this room design more vibrancy. As the centerpiece of the room, the black stone tile fireplace mixed with red brick is highlighted by its white-painted wood mantel and stainless steel wall sconces. The hexagonal bulkhead to the side features double hung windows with a suburban view best enjoyed from the pair of slump armchairs and vibrant blue coffee table.
This very hip Manhattan style bedroom is surrounded by floor to ceiling black metal framed windows along its perimeter, complemented by its dark oak floor planks. To balance out the use of dark metal and wood, white was used for the walls and ceilings, with off-white shades for the bed, area rug, and divan. Gold accent coffee tables beside the divan break up the room’s black and white monotony nicely.
This minimalistic beach style cottage features floors that reflect the ceiling, using warm oak floor planks and ceiling strips. The warmth of the lumber and its rich grainy texture contrasts well with the light grey walls, seamless picture windows, and grey ocean views. A dark grey stone tile accent wall showcases the warm wooden headboard, bed frame, and sofa set.
Red Oak
Warm red oak strip flooring brings brightness to a rustic style cottage room featuring exposed timber roof framing. All white walls and ceilings matched with white bed sheets bring out the natural wood grain of the flooring, timber framing, and wooden built-in cabinet. A fireplace with a mantel and low bench adds classic ornamentation, while a wrought iron chandelier anchors the large bed placed atop a brown area rug.
Red Oak flooring gives this traditional style bedroom a warmer, more energetic feel, matching well with the darker stain used for the elaborately carved four poster bed, side tables, and lounge seat. Traditional bed sheets, lamp shades, and curtains are accented by pops of yellow in the throw pillows.
Tigerwood Floors
Known for its unique grain and deep red-orange hues, Tigerwood is a durable, albeit highly exotic, choice for flooring. In this simple room setting, the rich grain of the plank flooring gives drama alongside plain dark-stained drawers, a bed frame, and a side table. The walls, bed sheets, and lamp shades are kept to a light beige, while the blinds are simple rattan. A light blue geometric area rug towards the foot of the bed gives the setup a more Contemporary feel.
Pine Floors
Known for its light color marred by large dark knots, pine is a good option for more cottage-style setups and can lend a rich country vibe to any bedroom. In this Classic style design, the knotty pine goes well with the old-style Persian carpet, low-hanging chandelier, and plump bed and duvet combination. The white sliding doors, along with the mismatched Classic style lamp shades and wall sconces, give this room a slightly eclectic feel.
Maple Floors
This classically luxurious bedroom features dark Maple floors matched with lighter off-white elements. The large black and white Persian carpet is the perfect base for white tufted upholstery and bed sheets set on heavy black-painted wood furniture. A central black iron chandelier and a large window behind the bed’s headboard give this room a slightly vintage feel. Area rugs like this are also a great way to match the decor and color palette of the room for a cohesive design.
This primary suite uses a lighter shade of maple hardwood for its flooring that complements the jute shades and wood accents on the furniture pieces. Beautiful French doors and a lovely shiplap ceiling help lighten up the overall space and keep the design bright and airy.
Brazilian Cherry Floors
Industrial-style concrete walls and ceiling give this master bedroom an inner city vibe, going with the Modern landscape outside of the large metal framed picture windows. Dark Cherry is used for the bed frame, side tables, and lounging chair, while white accents the leather upholstery and lamp shades. To tie the whole look together, Brazilian cherry wood was used for the floor boards — perfect for its warm tone and fine grained surface.
Walnut Floors
Walnut wood comes in several different variations, but American walnut promises a light surface striated by heavy dark grain lines. Using this on the floor creates an immediately rustic look — here matched with white painted exposed roof framing, tan-colored walls, and door-height recessed wall panels. Vintage pieces including rose-colored bed sheets, black velvet armchairs, an ottoman, and silver ring chandeliers complete the Contemporary vintage aesthetic.
This traditional Plantation style bedroom features a light grey base color for its walls and ceiling, accented by the white painted carved wooden four-poster bed frame, chaise lounge, and door and window trims. Luxurious white linen is used for the bed sheets and upholstery of the chaise lounge and reclining armchair. To balance the room’s lightness, dark fine-grained Walnut was used for the floorboards. An orbital style black iron and crystal chandelier illuminates the whole room.
Light grey walls match well with the white sloping ceiling and a solitary hanging chandelier over a rich brown upholstered bed with pristine white sheets, guarded by a pair of tufted Ottoman chairs. A yellow and white geometric area rug cuts across the bed and stands out against the dark Walnut flooring — giving the room a Minimal Eclectic feel through its use of geometric profiles in lighter neutral colors.
Hickory Floors
This Classic style master suite features wide planks of Hickory flooring — known for its light brown tone and mild striations with a few deep black knots. The rustic look of the wood goes well with the white walls and ceiling, as well as the white wood-framed French doors leading to the outdoor balcony. A traditional bed headboard and side tables match the large armchair with footrest, while the geometric grey and white rug gives the room a more contemporary feel.
Hickory hardwood floors provide a warm yet heavy textured grain for this old-style cottage bedroom suite. The rich color and grain of the floor goes well with the heavy wood furniture — including the carved bedside tables, sleigh bed, and chaise lounge. The intricately carved wooden pieces are matched by a heavy brass chandelier over the bed and a hanging pendant light by the bay window.
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