The Furniture Trend Saving Wood-Drenched Spaces

There are lots of reasons to choose beautiful wood furniture. It offers a warm aesthetic that brings comfort into your home. Its durability and appearance make it a long-lasting investment. Additionally, wood furniture can be crafted in a wide variety of styles, making it versatile enough to match both traditional and modern interiors. Too much wood in a room, though, can give it a monotonous, heavy feel, especially if the wood is all similar in tone. Without contrast or balance from other materials and colors, the space can lack depth and feel overly rustic or dated. Fortunately, there is a furniture trend that can provide visual relief for your wood-drenched living area: metal furniture. Metal furniture, such as wrought iron and aluminum, has long been reserved for patios and other outdoor spaces, but giving it a coat of colorful paint and bringing it into your home might be the cure for a room that's too wood-heavy.

This is such an easy way to change the feel of your living space. When you've selected the furniture you want to replace with metal, all you need to do is sand, prime, and paint. Adding a metal furniture piece to your living space can also be a great patio furniture upcycling project. For this, be sure to clean the pieces well and use a wire brush and sandpaper to remove any rust. Whether you use old furniture or buy something new, metal furniture is sure to upgrade the look of your space.

The first step when bringing metal furniture into your home is to choose which wood furniture pieces you are going to replace, if needed. If you're going for a light and airy look in your living space, you may want to replace a dark wood furniture piece. Don't get rid of every dark-stained wood piece, though, since multiple wood tones can help a space look textured and interesting. Likewise, if the space could benefit from a more sophisticated and serious look, consider keeping most of the dark wood items and replacing a light-colored wood furniture piece with a metal one. It's also possible to sand and stain the wood in the space in order to get the tone balance you want.

The next thing you need to do is choose which color you want to paint your metal furniture. When selecting the color, you should consider the color scheme of the room's existing decor, as well as the tone of the majority of the wood in the room. Light blues and greens offer an eye-catching contrast to dark wood tones. If you have lots of lighter colored wood pieces, bold and dark colors are good choices for your metal furniture. You can also use the undertones of the wood in the room to help you select a good color of paint. If you need help choosing a wood stain and paint color combination, an interior design color wheel can be a big help.