Orange wood flooring help!!!
Moving into a new place which has original, orangey, hardwood flooring.
We are young and just starting out, so new flooring is out of the question (the house doesnt have A/C, needs to be fully painted, renovated kitchen with new backsplash, etc.). New flooring is a couple years away at least, so I'm trying to work with the existing flooring.
I went to BM and got two samples:
1. Gray owl 50% lightened
2. Stonington 50% lightened
I got them both lightened because the house is very, very, very small!!! It looks much bigger in the pictures than it really is.
I am personally leaning towards stonington, with its blue undertones. I will have warm lighting in every room that this colour will be in.
Will the blue undertones totally clash with the floor? Or will it help to counter/balance the bright orange of the floor?
I wanted to stay away from warm colors because i dont want it to pull out or enhance any of the floors colours. I also dont want the house to look dated with orange floors and beige-y walls. Hoping blue undertones will modernize it...
Am I completely off???
Should note that current house is gray floors and the current paint (moth gray?) Shows beige in evening lights. And revere pewter shows green at night as well. And I really want to avoid those undertones in our new house!!!
EDIT: here are some pictures of gray owl lightened 50% with similar-colored flooring. Only we have mature trees outside of our house (lots of green!), and as I said I want warm/soft white light to go into all of these rooms....
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Sel Bee
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5 years agoSel Bee
5 years agoAnnied75- the photot I referenced did not show up!! Here it is (I made a little collage comparing the flooring colors of my own flooring to that of pictures with gray owl lightened 50%)
The new house is in the middle. It is currently painted in greens and tan/khaki colors.Sel Bee
5 years agoPartim - Thanks! I have read this, and I like the gray in the kitchen (she says it is a cool blue-grey!) as well as the gray on the stairwell. I want to do something like the gray in the kitchen picture, only lighter. I should mention that the living room is small, and I have a giant jute area rug that will fill almost the whole room. I have another for the smaller bedroom as well. Still looking for something to go in the other room. Thinking white/gray geometric like in this picture:
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/807903620633031584/Only in a bedroom.
The orange floor will really only be seen in the perimeter and doorways of the rooms, and the small hallway, which is an L-shape and can be seen a little bit off of the living room.
I thought about going white (I love the color scheme in the picture above), but have opted to go for a gray and cut it way down. I am surprised how dark BM stonington is at 50%, and am even considering going 70%.
I have moth gray in our current househttps://www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/N200-1
It looks fine during the day, but it looks completely beige at night with warm lighting (picture below).
I worry that the orange in the floor will make any warm gray look...even warmer. Add in warm lighting and I fear it will be beige everywhere!!! You can see how warm/soft mini lights make it look kind of green compared to the second photo...
Do you think that blue-ish gray walls will look terrible with my orange floors? : (I don't want green or yellow or beige or purple or red or orange.....
I want the most neutral gray possible, and I thought by going to a cooler blue I could mitigate the effects of orange floor reflecting and warm lighting hitting the walls and making it even warmer...
Susan
4 years ago
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