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SOS. Aligning paint with hardwood floors

9 years ago

We recently bought our first home, a bit of a fixer upper, and while we're very handy we're not very stylish when it comes to picking paint colors. The floors are original to the home and other than a good cleaning we're happy with the way they look. I've been reading so many articles about matching your wood undertones to paint etc. but I still cannot tell what they are and if I'm supposed to match them with similar tones or complimentary and have now just confused myself even more.


After stripping off antique wallpaper and the pink and peach paint and a few skim coats, we thought we'd like a light gray (we painted a sample of SW Repose and Mindful) but weren't sure that would quite fit and tried out a creamier color SW Natural Choice as well which we thought looked too yellow. Our kitchen and bathrooms have an off white tile so we'd want the paint to look cohesive with that as well along with a whiter trim throughout the home. We have darker taste and an affinity for neutrals when it comes to color and I love the idea of doing a few accented walls with a dark navy/midnight blue as well but don't know if there's a way to mesh all of those ideas together neatly. So should I scrap my dream of dark walls? Should we stick with a white similar to the original color?

Really any recommendations or help is welcome, even outside of our color choices. I just want it to look nice!

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