Hi! We used BM's Wedgewood Gray in our guest bedroom at the recommendation of my SIL and LOVE IT!! The room is also southwest facing. Our floors are Douglas Fir, but given the amount of light the room has received over the past 80+ years, the floors have a lot of orange/red in them that works really well with the color. The trim is White Dove. Also, bedding and drapery at PB with the Porcelain Blue color matches the paint color really well. Good luck!

I like White Oak better than Red. It works better with a certain color pallette and is less grainy when stained. I have natural color White Oak in my master bedroom. Traditionally flooring here was White Oak when stained, Red Oak when natural, but that's going quite a long way back. Two things to consider. 1) The floor in the pictures looks almost certain to be #1 Common grade. White Oak will have some substantial color variations, especially in a grade lower than Select. 2) $1.00 per square foot additional for staining sounds like a lot. We charge $0.30 per square foot to go from natural to a standard stain. It takes a bit more time to make sure you've sanded out the small scratches that typically wouldn't show up on a natural floor, but you're not adding an extra coat. You're simply applying stain instead of clear for the first coat. I could see if it was a small area and might require lots of samples but not 2000'. Maybe he's charging for the stain as a separate added operation and still applying the same number of surface coats. Or possibly he uses a better (ie more costly) crew to do the stain jobs. Or maybe I'm not charging enough!

Tons of natural light, 8’ ceilings, brown leather furniture...... Gray? Taupe? Tan? Green? Help!

In my last house, I used BM Cloud White throughout for trim and wainscoting. There was a lot of woodwork, and the color worked well with all of the various room colors. Not too stark, not yellow. I actually chose it to match the existing trim paint which was in good condition but had aged and mellowed a bit.