Choosing a Wall Color to Complement a Wood Wall Treatment

A wooden wall treatment can add character to any style of home. You can use the treatment to accent certain parts of the room, cover an entire wall, and even carry the wood treatment to the ceiling. How you use wood wall treatment in your home comes down to personal preference and style.

Once you’ve decided how you’re going to use your wood treatment, it’s time to decide what other colors that will work well. Primarily, what wall colors complement a wood wall treatment?

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Cedar Smooth Gray Treatment

The Tones in Your Wood Wall Treatment

Looking at the color and the tones of your wall treatment will help you find the right palette for the entire room. However, you want to be careful that you don’t get too matchy-matchy. The trick is to find the paint color that will complement and highlight the wood. You want to balance out the tones in the wood, but you don’t want the colors to blend so perfectly that everything becomes too monochromatic.

Balancing Warm and Cool Tones

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Alder Wood Treatment

The tones of your wall treatment will depend on the type of wood that you choose to work with, as well as the stain and finish of the treatment.

Using a reclaimed wood with distinct patterns, grains, and hues from plank to plan can make a dramatic statement in a room.

Letting the natural characteristics of the wood wall treatment shine is going to add warmth. Therefore, using a wall color with cooler tones will balance the warmer tones in the wood.

Cool Contrast

Each piece of wood will have a rainbow of colors and shades. When you choose a color for your walls, find one of the lightest shades in the wood treatment and match that to your walls. This will add a beautiful cool contrast to the darkest and warmest colors in the treatment.

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Cedar Rustic Treatment

Wood Wall Treatment in Colorado

At T&G, we’ve got three professional wood treatments. All are of the best professional quality and can be used for a wide range of home designs:

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Chris Keale

Owner & Operator of Tongue & Groove Flooring
Wood Flooring 101 Course Creator

Chris Keale is the owner of Tongue & Groove and the creator of the Wood Floors 101 course, an educational resource that helps homeowners and design professionals make confident flooring decisions.

With a career that began in global technology and consulting, Chris traded boardrooms for floorboards, bringing his leadership skills and love of craftsmanship into the hardwood flooring industry. Since 2007, he has grown Tongue & Groove into one of Colorado’s most trusted flooring companies—built on a foundation of integrity, education and precision. 

Known for his sharp insight, dry humor and genuine commitment to his clients, Chris has helped homeowners, builders and designers through the complexities of choosing and installing hardwood floors. Whether teaching in the showroom, on a jobsite or through his Wood Floors 101, his mission remains the same: to simplify a complicated industry and deliver floors that stand the test of time.

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