How to mix different wooden tones like an interior designer – 'It makes spaces feel more collected'

Three rooms that mix wooden tones.

'I like to mix woods, but it can be scary for some people,' says the interior designer Gabriela Eisenhart, founder and lead of the Atlanta-based design agency Silo Studios. 'You just can't get that warmth, and that extra dimension, from decorating in any other way.'

She's right, of course. Mixing wood tones does seem a bit scary for the uninitiated. It goes against everything we've been taught, every rule we think exists in the design world (spoiler: there are, really, no hard and fast decor rules).