Darker "dark" wood?

[coasterspaul]

On the Other Types of Stone thread, we starting discussing wood types, and I believe we came to the conclusion that having two tones per type of wood was okay as long as the types of wood contrasted enough.

@Atreyu

As far as different tones in furniture items go, I think there’d be enough variation in the tones of the wood to support it without being an issue. It would probably depend on the difference between the palettes more than anything - if the dark bits on the oak are as dark as mahogany, then it starts to look wrong, so as long as there’s enough difference between the dark parts of one material, and the light parts of the next, it should be fine.