If they did not match the color as you asked, I would go back and get them to do so. Aside from that, you have got some seriously intense colors happening there. What is the wooden thing on the wall? Can you post a pic with the floors wiped so that we can see the finish, and also one that shows the rest of the room?

Yep, too much!

What's going where the plywood is ?

The only way I would keep the color is if you broke it up with a semi thick white or cream stripe w a thin red match floor color underlining it to bring it together

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What are your furnishings for this space ?

What a good color to match the floor?

LIKE Carolyn Albert Kinci Design's suggestion on Lt Grey or neutral walls...color can be brought out in other ways...pillows, chair covers, drapes, ceiling paint..etc.

What's a good color to match the floor

What neutral color might be appropriate, beige, ligt grey, white?

If you really want to match the floor then you can pick up paint chips at the paint store or take a sample of the floor with you to the paint store. Then when you think you've found the right color, make a sample board of that color just to be sure. I don't approve, but I'll happily eat my words if your room looks fab when you're done with it.

Ah, so you might be coming around to a more neutral viewpoint! A medium gray or light gray or white...any of those would get you off to a good start.

It's rather important that we know what furnishings are planned for the room, before suggesting greys, neutrals or any colour at all, for the walls, I would have thought ! We don't even know what style the poster is looking for, what his 'inspiration' room looks like, nor anything about the space, or its occupant at all .... On that basis ... who amongst us would, in the real world, even DREAM of offering colour (or any other) 'advice' ? I'd suggest, as HERE Design has, that more pics and more info would be the best place to start.

Agree with Carolyn Albert-K - liking the medium or light gray...creates more of an interest in the room.

Buy a few gallons of Linen white from Benjamin Moore and paint it all out...walls, moldings right down to the baseboards. Create a clean pallet and go from there. I love the red floor....

No offense intended , Carolyn, but, in the real world, if a client came to you saying that he had been inspired by a picture, to do an all red room, I'm pretty sure you'd ask for clarification on his original intent, and want to be way more informed, before suggesting that he should (with no consideration for whatever he sees as his own preferred style, nor for existing items which might need to be used in the space) opt for the ubiquitous greys and neutrals suggested so often on these pages .. thereby perhaps leading the entire room, not to mention the client in a direction he had no intention of going ?

But I am not being paid by this client and I was answering specific questions that he posed. It is not practical in this format to get all the info one would usually want from a real client.

"there is not a client in the world that should not pay you..," you are worth more. It's a trap...

Repaint the walls another color. Orange walls and red floors are like speedballin' and taking a shot at the same time. The combo is so ON. However before you do that you must have the furniture, the rug and the big accents picked out FIRST. Paint is the easy fix but change it after you have the other stuff down.

I like the idea of grey, but I feel it would make the room look smaller . I'm working with 12x 20 living room.

Gray will not make your room look smaller. What you put in the room might do so but not the gray walls. But I think that Cozy is right that we need to know how you're going to use the room, how many people will live in the house, any children, how about a TV, etc.

I agree, there is no way gray will make your room look smaller...myth. It's chic to paint rooms black these days and it looks divine. I know, scary, but remember it's only paint not a tattoo. Here are some great examples that won't go stale in a few months...

It's for a couple, NO children, I tv, surround sound, kitchen and dinning room right next to each other. I love the examples but, do you think it goes well with red floor?, if so then picking out the sofas would be a hard task, since I wanted to do different color pieces.

Of course I think it needs an area rug with the wall color and a taste of the floor color...

Beige, beige, beige...pop with pillows and artwork.

This is a picture of the tv wall

I could see a white sofa ,gray rug, charcoal chairs or even a red chair if it's on the rug.

So the window wall is also the TV wall? Where on the wall will the TV go?

I totally agree , here nobody is paid for their input and as a professional. you have no obligation whatsoever to offer your advice for free. But if, in reducing the 'dilemma' down to "What colour goes with red ?" and having nothing more than a red wall and floor to go by, surely what Jonathan really needs is a Colour Wheel and not what might appear to him to be the considered opinion of a pro. (especially since, as you pointed out yourself, you are not offering up the choice based on anything you would, in fact, be sure to first consider in a real world situation.)

Many colours might be "appropriate" (as Jonathan puts it) for his walls, but all of them should take into account aspects of the room currently invisible to us. So, my point was not really whether we should be withholding superfluous advice (that we prefer to be paid for) but whether we should be snatching a colour out of thin air and (perhaps) making him feel our free 'advice' is 'legitimate'. In such a scenario, where is the distinction between the advice of a pro and that of a totally untrained, inexperienced eye ?

Anyway, I feel I might have started on a discussion that has no place on Jonathan's thread. for which I apologize profusely. I hope, in the time it has taken me to respond, that he has posted more ipics and clarifiied his objectives somewhat.

"picking out the sofas would be a hard task, since I wanted to do different color pieces."

Precisely ! .. so you first need an idea of your proposed furnishings (any pics ?) and of your style preferences, as well as any existing pieces you need to use ... and THEN you decide what colour 'container' they might look best in.

In my opinion, grey, whenever I have least objected to it, is best used in very 'low energy' spaces, such as bedrooms and monochromatic, neutral or darkly mysterious spaces, ... where the occupants are not looking to be over stimulated . I would personally find it, painted on standard drywall in a conventionally proportioned room, with less than terrific architectural detailing, to be a poor choice for a room in which I wanted to make a statement with furnishings of a variety of other colours. .... And where I wished to have a distressed red floor !

I also feel (not that it would matter if you loved it) that grey has become way too much of a 'faddish' colour and, for that reason alone, unless the grey in question were part of the structural elements of my room ... concrete floors, walls, countertops, for example, I'd be wary of using it. I'd add that, in general (and again, in my opinion) that shades of grey are also very light absorbing and, other than when used with a play of shadows (created by fantastically well done lighting at night !) wreak havoc on the reflection of natural daylight in your room (which os what gives you the feeling the space is smaller. )

Many examples of this effect are to be found on these pages, where many a freshly painted'grey box' has left the homeowner with a dreary, lifeless space ... and not the sleek, professionally executed, fabulously edited space they had been expecting ... (having been offered up a hundred pics of just such spaces as 'examples'.)

cozy casita - whoa.. I like the different comments and suggestions and I am sure that Color Confusion will pick and choose what appeals to him.

Hi Jonathan, there are a lot of discussions here about what you could or should do but very little about what YOU where thinking of when you chose this color. The one constant in your comments is that of "matching the floor" which depending on what you had in mind could still work. "Jane Killpatrick" posted some beautiful grey neutral rooms with a monocromatic color scheme. Perhaps what you have in mind is having a monocromatic room??? Do give us a little more background on th space. Perhaps some more pictures. Also what you had in mind when you saw the color and you like it and why?
Here are some pictures of Orange spaces that have been pulled together. You mentioned grey so here is one with gray sofas in an orange room. Also check out the orange room with the bold black and white striped rug.. Perhaps seeing some spaces with the color you where originaly attracted to could help in making a decision on keeping the orange or changing it for an entirely different color.

Seibarb, ... I'm a big fan of diverse comments and suggestions too. It just gives me pause when someone who is 'confused' about his choice of colours is led directly to only one other colour choice .. and then assured that the effect HE feels it has/might have on his room is absolutely unfounded ! :-) ... Creating imaginary rooms here is great fun, I'm sure,especially when we're able to spend imaginary money on furnishings and fixtures and play with colours that we like, regardless of whether the person posting the 'dilemma' does. These threads take on a life of their own ... which, of course can often be the attraction of them, for the average reader. And, you're quite right, Color Confusion might well pick and choose what appeals to him and end up with the room of his dreams ..... I was simply interested to know what dream he started with ... before attempting to lead him up another path entirely. :-) ... and I happen to agree with him re the effects of grey paint. .... To each his own ! :-) I look forward to seeing the room in its entirety as well a the results of the Houzzers' decorating party. But if this couple are seriously looking for advice and opinion, I'd still suggest that they establish their preferences before asking for input from all of us (total strangers.)

BTW, What is the box under the window??

Bravo ! studio FORMA !!! :-)

Look forward to seeing this discussion develop. ;)

These are some pics to help you get an idea. I forgot to mention that I'm under construction so the place has collected a lot of dust

I have never before reached a point in a design dilemma where I have chosen to leave it because of caustic remarks, but in this one,I have indeed reached that limit . Best of luck, Jonathan.

Thanks

I likw the orange and think there is a certainly a place for bright colours. Don't forget that when the window is in the light will change the look of the room. I think having a cream skirting board would help break up the colour a bit, as well as light window treatments.

I I love it. If you keep all the other features in ivory or white (I like the skirting board idea), some sheer white curtains aand modern white furnishings, you could have purple, tuquoise or even metallic accents. Would be amazing.