January 25, 2024
Meet Our 6 Hardwood Flooring Families: Choosing the Best Tone For Your Home
by Lauren Jones
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Finding the perfect Stuga floor starts with a range of considerations. Aesthetic, finish, price range, width, and finally, the floor’s overall tone, are all factors our customers look at. But if you are deciding between a few floors with a similar tone, that’s when it may get tricky.
With many of our engineered hardwood floors falling on the lighter side, we know it can be hard to understand how they differ. To simplify the experience, we broke our range into six color families.
Through shopping by family, you can dive deeper into the tones that best fit your home. An even easier way to decide on the floor of your dreams? Yes, please! Here's what to know about our hardwood flooring families.
Blondes
Archipelago, Greta, Astrid, Fika, Little Square, Sisu
Our best-sellers, these floors feature boards with a range of hues from creamy off-white to light gold. Like natural blonde hair, each has dimension and movement. Any floor in this homeowner- and designer-favorite collection would help achieve a light and airy feel in your home and easily complement an array of design styles, from minimalist Scandinavian to coastal and traditional.
Neutrals
Shell, Fredrik, Drift
Like the Blondes, the Neutrals, which include Shell, Drift, and Fredrik, are for those that wish to add a natural, grounding element to their home. The rustic, textured charm of these floors is accompanied by both warm and neutral tones. Darker in color than our blonde floors due to their abundance of knots and brown graining, they are equally inviting and versatile.
Ambers
Happy Hour, Faye
Love a white oak, but looking for something with a richer tone? An amber floor may be right for you. Like our other European white oak floors, both Happy Hour and Faye capture the beauty and depth of natural oak with sandy, caramel, and hazel variations throughout each board, swirling grain patterns, and subtle knots, walking the line between rustic and modern.
Natural Oaks
Frida, Tivoli, Forest, Old Town
The true color and organic nature of European white oak comes to the forefront in our collection of natural, unstained oaks. Old World in tone, modern in look, a natural oak floor will never go out of style. Just think of it as the Goldilocks of floors — as it will complement your home’s design for years to come— no matter how often you change or rearrange your furniture. Each is universally appealing thanks to its warm undertones, which range from tan to light brown.
Rebels
High Five, Giddy Up, Cartwheel, Hang Ten, Kickflip, Half Pipe
Meet the anti-wood floor, wood floors. Waterproof, nontoxic, and 100 percent wood, these floors have it all. Superior scratch and dent resistance at a price point you’ll love, they’re the most durable hardwoods in the world.
Misfits
Pepper, Harbor, Zig Zag, Moonlight
Sometimes floors don’t fit in a category and why should they? From a chic, cool toned white oak in Moonlight to a heavily brushed oak with large cracks and knots in Pepper, these floors have a personality all their own.
