how to mix wood furniture pieces

No more matching wood furniture sets. We're over complicating mixing different wood pieces into our homes. I promise you, it's simple. It's all about the undertone. And if you're a girl who dyes her hair, stick around because you're probably already a pro at this and you didn't even know it. We're looking at the undertone. And there are three different types of undertones in wood. There's warm, there's cool, and then there's neutral. The best part is that you can determine the undertone solely by sight. So girl, I want you to think about going and getting your hair dyed. Whatever color you end up going, blonde or brunette, there's a follow-up question to it. Do you want it warm? Honey or platinum? Are you seeing where I'm going with this? We're gonna use blonde as the example and regardless if you want honey blonde or platinum blonde, they're both yellow at the end of the day. But it's the undertone that makes all the difference. We're using that same line of thinking but with wood furniture. When you're looking at a piece of wood furniture, if you can describe the color as looking red, orange, yellowish, it's most likely a warm undertone. And if you're looking at warm blonde hair, you would describe it as golden, copper, honey, peach. Now, in the opposite, if you're looking at a piece of wood furniture and you describe the color as grayish, pale, bleached, ashy, smoky, it's gonna be a cool undertone. If you're looking at platinum blonde hair, you would describe it as icy, ashy, silver. Those are the undertones. When mixing wood furniture pieces in your space, the only rule is that they have to be from the same undertone. It doesn't matter how light or how dark the woods are. The lightest wood and the darkest wood can still pair together. They just have to be the same undertone. Now, the last category is nothing to stress over. Why? Because neutrals. Neutrals can mix with warms or with cools. You can tell if a wood is neutral if you look at it and it looks beige, taupe, or it leans orange, red, gray, or it leans yellow. It's neutral. It goes great with either the warms or the cools. PSA, any wood that is black also fits into a neutral. The thing that messes people the most is that they don't trust their own eyes. If you're looking at the piece and it looks like it has red in it, it looks like it has orange, it's warm. If you're looking at the piece and it looks like it has gray in it, it looks like it has blue in it, it's cool. If you can't tell, it's neutral. It goes great with either the warms or the cools. Any wood that is black also fits into a neutral. I've done a series called mixing woods 101 and I have a playlist on it. So if you want to go into more depth, you can look at those videos. But this is beginner's guide to trusting your eye, knowing the difference between a warm and a cool undertone. If you have any more questions, feel free to leave them in the comments. Much love.