Thank you all, for commenting! You've given me some valuable things to think about! I think I've settled on a few points to help me make some decisions: 1) I can't decorate the room based on one piece of furniture, specifically, the table because it will eventually have to be refinished. (We plan on using it as an everyday table/harvest table.) 2) I have to be careful of making the room too dark. I've spent some time thinking about this and I think, in the end, what I really want when I'm done is walnut cupboards. I think I'm going to start with that point and look at some floor colours and counter top which will compliment walnut cupboards. So, although I'm back to the drawing board to choose some colours, I'm going to try a different approach. Trying to match/compliment the table only resulted in me having to possibly not have some colours that I really wanted to begin with. This is a huge reno for us for many reasons, so I'm trying to take my time and make sure that I get the look I really want. We plan on living with out choices for 10-20 years (minus paint!), so I need to be 100% sure!! :)

What ??? If I understand tile is on the main floor and this questio is for the seconf floor where the bedrooms are.I think it will depend on the color of the tile on the lower floor as you will be having the 2 floors meet at the bottom of the stairs. Some pictures would be abig help BTW. Maybe look a vinyl plank and do the stirs in a tile to match the lower floor I awys thin stairs look best done to match the lower level and then the floor cange change at the top of the stairs. We need pictures of the furniture too.

tried to grab some in different lighting and with fiff wall paint. i swear its even less orange in real life- or even in my camera reel before it posts here

@eam44, yes, we have tile now. The builder has to tear up our floors to repair our foundation. There will not be any tile once they're done with the repair. My daughter has a permanent dent in her forehead from falling from a standing position onto the tile floor. It's tile over a slab. This house has a huge straight staircase that scares me to death. This pic doesn't show how high it is but the house has high ceilings and it's a straight drop down to the tile. I've fallen down steps onto carpet and I've been injured. If my daughter fell down these steps onto the tile, the same tile that left a permanent dent in her head, it could kill her. So I want something more forgiving than tile. I know I could put a rug down but I still prefer a softer surface.