I would not want the goldenrod in my bath as it will effect the color of your skin in a mirror. I have yellow undertones to start with, I don't need to accentuate it!

Why do you think something is wrong?

I agree with Pal and RN.

For me, I prefer a spa like feel in the bathroom.

what's most wrong is that you don't like it. Looks like if you bring down your ceiling paint to cover that wall all will be well. But you will need good priming and a couple of coats to completely get rid of the goldenrod. Make sure all the goldenrod has completely dried before your start over. Live with it for a while!

Neither color looks good with your floor. It seems a bit gaudy, which is why, I am thinking you dont like it. I would repaint and pick colors that go with the flooring and whatever countertop you have picked. Your flooring is brown, and that darker gray doesnt go, and the goldenrod is just too much, and doesnt go with anything.

I agree, you will need two coats of primer, to cover the goldenrod at least, otherwise, you will be putting many coats of paint on those walls.

First get a proper light bar not thta totally dated thing . Use LED bilbs 4000K is my preference and no to that yellow/ orange color inless you love to see yellow reflected on everything.I like light colors in small spaces unlees you are going really dark with fabulous lighting. Swich plates BTW are not decor itmes usually. I like a nice watery blue / green for bathooms often

Did you start with inspiration?
Do you have a picture of what you were looking to accomplish? A mood board?
Something made you choose those two colors.

Posting since this was in my inbox this morning. Do consider your floor color when choosing paint.

https://jennakateathome.com/bathroom-paint-colors/

Lighting is the first issue, as others noted--does this room have a window or is the fixture the only light? I also don't like the goldenrod with the floor--the gray might work with a different accent. Is the floor staying? If so, I'd figure out the lighting and then test some samples with the floor. If not, wait until your new floor is in to choose colors. I'd also replace the outlet and light switch with white since they are affecting how the colors look against the white trim, too.

I think part of the problem is there is nothing in there - you may have a different feeling when the vanity, toilet, towels , floor mats etc go in. I had a customer do a pretty gold color with

a bold tile in a small powder room and it looks great:

I think the grey is too dark. Maybe take one of the colors out of the floor so it is an easy tie in.

What are the other finishes going in there?

Agree with Debbi.

If you want drama, pull out some of the deep tones in the tile, and match that up with a medium or light value pulled from the tile.

I think the gold would work better by itself.

Notice though, what this color does: the millwork is white, I think the shutter is white, the toilet is white, and they all reflect varying amounts of the gold.

Notice that the other finishes are brown tones not grey tones

It works well as an accent with bright white:

Also this sort of color is not something that will automatically work with all neutrals. Often people chose bold colors and then nothing else particularly holds it own compared to it.

This photo was my inspiration. In fact, there are a plethora of gray and gold or yellow accessories.

In your inspiration photos, the gold is used in small doses, as in accessories. Not an accent wall. I think if you coordinate the wall paint with your flooring you can still get your gold in. In accessories.

Maybe we see what we want to see, right. I saw a bit of gray, a bit of cream, white maybe Med browns. I thought that would work.

I agree with Palimpsest, I just couldn’t put my figure on it. The colors are too intensity, too saturated.

Also, I am planned, to replace the light fixture, the light switch plate, etc.

The flooring is new, that has to stay but I can change the paint color. I would like to stay in the gray family, but lose the Golden color. Maybe, I could go with the new color Greige.

Artemis78: yes, I’m replacing the lighting. No, there is no window and yes, I planned to switch the light plate.

Everything else: the vanity, bathtub, toilet will be white.

Thank you all for your help and constructive criticism. Sometimes it’s difficult for people closest to you to be completely honest. 🙏🏾

Love your first inspirational pic, it’s lovely.

You cannot ignore your floors like they don’t exist! You chose them for a reason. What was it? It was not because they would go with a gold and gray scheme, because they don’t. You have to use the floors as your origination point. Find an indpiration picture that has some of those malted milk colors of the floor in it.

Your inspiration picture is beautiful, but the colors don't work well with your flooring and the colors you picked are much more saturated.

Go here and play with colors with your flooring

https://www.sherwin-williams.com/visualizer#/active

use this picture

Here are some examples, including one with similar colors to your inspiration picture and what you actually used and then a bunch with colors that may work better.

(Canoe and Playa Arenosa are close to the colors in your flooring, so I placed them on the top and bottom just for reference.)

The whole room can be painted one color and a second can be brought in as an accent.

Play with the colors till you find something you love. Then know that you still need to test before painting as computer monitors are not totally accurate, but it will get you close.

Jennifer Hogan: Thank you so much for all your help and suggestions! I’m over the moon at the amount of help I’ve received!

Well your floor has browns/pinky beiges - which clashes with the mustard yellow and the gray. None of the colors relate. If you have sample of the flooring take it to the paint store and find colors which match exactly. And THEN - use those colors to re-think a comprehensive color scheme. Yes, color scheme - cant choose colors in a vacuum, have to think thru entire scheme from the beginning.

This is not related specifically to this flooring choice only, but it's a dead horse that I beat periodically.

I think beige makes for a very poor neutral in interiors, because people select it because they think it goes with everything, but really it only goes with itself. It looks terrible with so many other actual colors and other neutrals. And there are so many variations of what beige is. These colors tend to only look good with variations of themselves.

Add to this the trend in flooring to have loads of variation. That creates an intense kind of patterning that people tend to ignore, but it's just as present as a patterned carpet which is something most people would not choose. I think this sort of flooring is going to be like the beige stone look porcelain tile of the 90s and early 2000s, which is also allegedly neutral but really does not look good with a lot of colors.

For whatever reason, probably the lighting the floor does look brown. However, it is called Fossil Gray. There some light beige but also cream, gray, taupe, too. I’m thinking change the gray &gold to a Greige color.

IMHO, beige is just fine,,, downright lovely in fact IF people are willing to embrace a color scheme that incorporates it/ harmonizes with it. Similar to how to work with grays (or any so-called neutrals, really) there needs to be some awareness of what color family the "neutral" is in - green, red, blue, purple, whatever - to choose other neutrals or other colors to combine with it. In this case OP didnt see that the steel gray and mustard wasnt jibing with his pinky-brownish-beige floors. Yellow + gray + white happens to be one of my fav color schemes - for this to work he would have had to choose a grayer/bluer gray..... instead of a beigey gray that leans slightly pinkish.

I think you may be stuck with the situation of too many ideas but they just don't connect.

Take a big step back. The floor stays. Great. Take the floor to the paint store and start looking at colors. Don't initially look for THE color because that never really works. The rest of the items you have are white - easy neutral to work with. If you like the idea of the gold, I say go for it - just not the gold you are showing - it is the wrong tone and wrong intensity. Just find the right one and get a sample of one or 2 or three! That way you can see what they will look like before you spend the time painting and then you don't like it.

The pics you posted did have a richer gold and darker gray, but that was in smaller amounts on a shower curtain. That won't necessarily translate to the walls. Maybe you could put in a chair rail and do a combination of white and the gold, then use the gray for towels and mats.

Good luck!

Beige is not a terrible color, neither is Greige, Taupe or Gray. They are simply different neutrals and they work or don't work together same as colors work or don't work together.

Because my family has lots of variety I often use our colors as an example of why all neutrals have their place.

Below are samples of colors that my sister, my sister-in-law and I have in our homes as colors in our art, décor and accents

Could we all use the same neutral wall color and have it look like the perfect backdrop for the colors we love or should we individualize or choices based on the colors we love?

Beige is fine if you treat it as an actual color, not something that goes with just about everything, like white.

Whites are just very light neutrals, each with it's own nuances.

When starting with a clean slate I always start with colors first, then find the appropriate neutrals that work with the colors, then choose the best white.

If you have flooring, cabinets, countertops . . . that have to stay you have to pay attention to those colors and figure out how to incorporate the colors you love and which neutrals will work with both, then I pick the white.

White is always the last color I pick.

Personally, I think the dark gold/ yellow wall is way to dark with all the white. Either paint the white a light shade of the gold yellow. Or paint it over in a softer color