Has anyone mentioned to you the hazards of selecting colors from a computer screen?

Yes, I know but I'm not sure what else to do since the house isn't built yet and I won't be able to get in there to test paints

I have looked at dozens of Luxury Vinyl flooring samples over the last month or so. The Luxury vinyl tile look so fake I strongly advise against them. The Luxury Vinyl if proper quality with good “wear layer” in wood looks are fine. For Florida, and your love of turquoise, I would look at ones that are light wood, beachy looks. I would avoid gray tones. I would use base paint for walls. It is slightly tinted white from all brands. You cannot pick paint colors long distance. Now there are some basic ones you could try once you select flooring. You can get flooring samples sent to you, then get paint samples and select a neutral but you won’t know what a color will do in your light conditions.

Sorry, I was typing when Diana was posting but we are in agreement. Diana is brilliant! Haha. She is good and always has great input!

Did you walk through the model home, to experience that house's paint color? Hard almost to believe they can't allow 2 colors, etc. Maybe if you chose their standard color, they'd say, yes, add on just one more [upstairs or wherever]...

Thanks, Flo, you are so kind!

Let me tell you that when we built our vacation home (semi-custom) many years ago, and were deciding on paint we did it all one color white. The builder said if the painter had to clean or change his brush/roller, because we wanted different colors, it was an upgrade. Not wanting to add costs unnecessarily, we stayed with one color. It's a home by the ocean, and white is perfect. All our color comes from the décor.

We had SW Sea Salt in our last beach house and it was gorgeous! Everyone complimented it.

I would go with the wood floors, and SW Sea Salt. It's a really pretty color, and is light enough to work as a whole house neutral.

I love SW Sea Salt but it isn’t as light a color as you might want. Pick your flooring, then get chips of colors you like, then buy 12x12 samples from samplize.com. These will give you much better idea of colors. I will look up the color DNA on several colors for you but flooring is next choice
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Our entire house is one colour. It is all BM Grey Owl. It is awesome.

Our builder allows us to pick one paint color for the whole house.

Clarify exactly what that means. Often a builder wants to come in and spray all surfaces so not only walls, but ceilings. No matter if you find a muted green/blue/gray that you love, you won't want it on your ceilings, right? Follow the advice, go with white/off white and add color later. It will be a better surface to paint on anyway after the initial paint coats from the builder then add the color(s) you love later with what will likely be a better painter than your builder.

Sea salt is very nice night and day - one of the colors I was tempted to repeat

Here is the DNA on SW Sea Salt. It has an LRV (light reflective value, or how much light does it absorb or reflect.) of 65 so 100 is most reflective. 65 makes it not very reflective, kind of mid range. It has a Hue Family (what is the main color that is most likely to show thru) of Green/Yellow (cool segment) and it has a moderate Chroma which means it has enough black to "gray it down" and helps define how much "color" is in the paint. This one has a fair amount of Chroma, so it is pretty "colorful". So, if you want a more "quiet" backdrop, look to the "off-whites". Some to get samples of and compare are SW Chantilly Lace (pretty white); SW Extra White (not quite as bright but still white); SW Cotton Balls, SW Pure White is nice too. Then you can get some of the more colorful choices like SW Sea Salt, SW Agreeable Gray, SW Accessible Beige, SW Alabaster (more yellow Hue Family) or SW Worldly Gray which has much more color but fairly neutral tending to gray tones. Worldly Gray has an LRV of 57, so it is mid-range light reflective. Not as reflective as SW Sea Salt for example at 65. LRV is measured from 0-100. The closer to 100 the more reflective; the closer to 0 the less reflective and more absorbing of light.

We used to spend winters in florida...whenever i saw a house with “wood” floors it never felt right ...but any pale color of blue or aqua.. on the walls ....always felt right..

Also if there is lots of natural light.... the pale aqua blues look great on the ceilings...another sort of reference to the sunny blue skies in Fla....oh and one possible exception for “wood” floors working may be the sort of pale yellow/ grayish driftwood floors..they seem to fit in that climate if you really want wood...the stone is on the other hand is much more “expected” and therefore maybe not as interesting....as the driftwood...really depends on if you are into the current “more expected”...or a little more unexpected home...

Also remember that Florida light is much warmer than you're used to up north. So your blue color may wind up looking a bit muddy here. Wait to choose an actual color

I agree with Diana that you should for now paint everything white.

We used to spend winters in florida...whenever i saw a house with “wood” floors it never felt right ...but any pale color of blue or aqua.. on the walls ....always felt right..

I live in FL and have wood floors and they look great. The majority of new homes being built in my area have wood floors. And the houses from the 1920's here have wood floors.

Blues do look wonderful down here but again, wait until here to choose the best one.

I had wood floors in Florida and loved , loved, loved them. The quality of the light in Florida is unlike the light in Wisconsin or New Jersey or even sunny Southern California. Wait to pick blues, greens, etc until you are living there. All my walls were BM Lancaster Whitewash and every room looked different based on the amount of sunlight that particular room received.