I vote for hardwood or engineered wood through the whole space, including the kitchen. Opening the wall would be nice, but I suspect your appliances are arrayed along that wall? I'd paint the wall the same pale color as the living space, and hang a really big mirror on the wall if you can't open it. Then you open the wall visually, and reflect the light from the sliders back into the space. (I know...me and mirrors. They are great manipulators of space, particularly when you commit to making them big!)

Keep in mind that the color will look different if it is sampled on a painted wall. You should be able to mix colors and have it color matched--although depending on the skill of the salesperson, the match may not be perfect. We have done colors at 50%--I think that also depends on the salesperson as to how they do it. For us, we had SW softer tan mixed at 50% and it was just lighter than the original shade. I had sooooo many paint samples up--I did large portions of the wall in the samples--but having the samples side by side and doing them on top of our existing yellow walls really affected how the color looked and made it hard to judge how the end result would look. I ended up picking my favorite and painting as much of the wall as the sample allowed to get the best idea of how it would look. The svelte sage and grassland were definitely way too gray in my house. If you do a search, there have been other posts on greens--I know it was helpful when I was trying pick a green. I think I even had a thread and someone suggested a nice Behr color or maybe a lowe's color--it didn't work in my space as I needed to coordinate it with a tan adjoining wall--but it was nice--I just can't remember the color.

Hi Dereck! I definitely don't think wood tiles will make your space look "cold", if done right--there are so many different tones and types available, but you can definitely fool people into thinking they're real wood! There will always be people who disagree, but ultimately it's your space and you should get what you want! I personally love the look of concrete flooring, however, some people shudder at the idea of it. I found these photos online of spaces with wood tiles--hopefully this helps. Best of luck with your project!

So we have We have an open living room and kitchen and now we need to pay it off of him trying to transpire everything for the house we have a beautiful room is done and then we have in the end of the house office that needs to be painted also and we just stumbling with the colors we have like a rustic Arizona feeling luck and we wanna pop in my living room area and we have a lot of windows and door so we don’t want to do like a accent wall I am just so overwhelmed bathroom is done like a spa with marble floor we are happy,now We need to come with transition from walking in into the living room dining room kitchen and office color scheme our floors is oak wood and the pool and kitchen cabinet are cherry wood please help thank you