Does wide plank flooring work for a small room?

When it comes to a small room in your home, the last thing you want to do is make that room feel even smaller. It’s common to explore different paint colors, furniture placement, and wall and flooring treatments to make that space feel bigger, instead of smaller. If this is something you are currently exploring, then you’ve come to the right place.

In this article below, we’ll take you through a home update you can make to make your small place feel anything but small. Keep reading to learn how wide plank flooring can work in any room of your home.

What is wide plank flooring? 

If you aren’t a flooring expert, you may not know the difference between wide plank and regular plank, or wood flooring, and that’s okay! The hardwood flooring you commonly see is 2 ¼” or 3 ¼” so wide plank flooring will be wider than that.

Most wide plank hardwood floors come in at 6-10”, with some even being as wide as 12-24”. In between wide plank and hardwood flooring is strip flooring which tends to be 4-5”. 

While you may be wondering how wide plank flooring can make a room look larger when you can’t have many planks fit in a room, it does work in a smaller space. That’s because this flooring has fewer seams which makes your room feel less busy and allows you to showcase the natural look of the wood and its graining.

How to use wide plank flooring in your small space? 

Just like with any design decision, you can’t magically just put down this type of flooring and have your room feel larger. Thoughtful decisions need to be made to maximize this flooring’s design power. 

Below we’ve included 5 tips on how you can use this flooring in your small space.

1. Choose a light-colored wood

Darker colors make rooms feel more enclosed. Choosing a lighter wood color will change the size perception of your room, opening the space up. As a result, your room will feel larger.

1. Be consistent with your flooring

While it may be tempting to put down an area rug or alternate different floorings in different rooms, choosing the same floor throughout will help make your room feel larger. This is due to it having a seamless effect where each room feels like it flows into the next room.

1. Place the flooring in a parallel pattern

Being intentional with the direction you install your flooring, will make a big difference. Installing your wide plank flooring wall to wall will automatically make your room feel more spacious than it is. If parallel flooring isn’t your thing, that’s fine too. Installing your flooring diagonally can have the same effect because your eyes will believe the space is larger than it actually is.

1. Let the wide plank flooring shine

While we touched on this before, by just installing wide plank flooring, your room will instantly feel larger. That’s because this flooring feels less busy since there are fewer visible seams on the floor.

1. Make your flooring the focal point

It is often tempting to crowd a room with unnecessary furniture and knick-knacks to take up space, but in a small room, you want to avoid doing this. Instead, let your floors be the focal point. When you avoid the urge to clutter your room, your floors can do what you wanted them to do and make your space feel larger.

Wrapping Up

While everyone may have told you that wide plank flooring will make a small space appear smaller, the exact opposite is actually true. Ultimately this type of flooring tricks your eye into thinking your room is more spacious, all the while adding a unique, unexpected, visual touch to your room. By making the switch to installing this type of flooring you can wow guests with how large your small room is.

When it comes time to install new floors in your home, House Repair Pro [insert company link] can help. It’s easier to come up with a design decision than to execute that decision, so leave the hard work to us. 

We’ll help you choose the wide plank flooring option that best suits your room’s needs and we’ll handle all the installation from start to finish.  

With House Repair Pro, we’re a company you can always trust. If you’re ready to get started all you need to do is get in touch [link to contact page] with a member of our team today to schedule a consultation!