Snowbound is darker and more neutral/less colorful than Cheviot.

I will say with most colors it's hard to assess what they look like in an empty room but with these two, it's especially challenging.

Cheviot *always* feels too yellow until contents of the room are loaded in.

Snowbound *always* feels too gray, too dull, too meh on its own.

Cheviot is technically a color of white - but just barely. A smidge more chroma and it would be an off-white, not white. Which explains why many do describe Cheviot as a creamy off-white.

Whereas Snowbound is factually a color of white and actually shows up looking white.

thank you @Lori A. Sawaya this was very helpful. when you look at the wood for the floors in this pic... would you opt for a greyish tone like snowbound? or the warmer off white of cheviot? after sitting in my space with these colors... i def notice that alot of the whites i have tried pull green. snowbound and cheviot tend to retain there look the most.

@Lori A. Sawaya a part of me (as a total novice) wonders if the snowbound would help to calm the yellow in the floor? we are mostly an east facing house for the common areas and west for bedrooms

Honestly when picking white to use throughout - so much more info is needed. Like - what color rugs and furnishings do you have? Will your cabinets be the same white or ??? Countertops?

Not taking those things into consideration you run the risk of the space looking like primer was slapped up and no thought at all given to the whole.

@thinkdesignlive the cabinets are gonna be tuxedo style w/ factory white :-/ (didnt get many choices there) on top and an oak (sllightly darker than the floors) for the bottom. you can see the 1 board that stands alone in the pic -thats the color for the bottom of the cabintes. The piece of the white cabinet shown is actually off white - we changed and went with real white b/c that became "dingy". Everything else in the house will be brand new as we do not have furnishings yet. we dont even have countertops yet. contractor is rushing us to paint before the floor goes in next week.

With builder white cabinets I suggest you get a perfect match to it for all your trim. And then go a shade deeper like a bone white so there is some distinction from the trim/cabinets. OR you perfectly match your builder white cabinets if you are dead set on ‘white’ walls. Any mixing of whites otherwise just looks like a miss. Good classic off whites are options like SW Shoji white, Ivory Lace, Pearly white and maybe Snowbound - but Snowbound leans rather pink so that’s when you need to start knowing your furnishings/rugs etc in order to get the right wall color throughout. Really important for you to know your countertops before you settle on your wall color.

@Lori A. Sawaya a part of me (as a total novice) wonders if the snowbound would help to calm the yellow in the floor?

Both Cheviot and Snowbound belong to the yellow hue family. Color online is not accurate but between what you say about the floor and what I see, I think all 3 are in the same hue family zone.

Snowbound and Cheviot are very close in terms of hue. Which is the beginning of the Yellow hue family, close to the end of the Yellow-Red hue family.

The reason why Snowbound might have moments and be perceived as peachy-pink is because it is over near the end of the yellow-red hue family -AND- its low chroma. It literally contains less of its yellow hue parent.

Cheviot has more. Which is why it looks more yellow.

Neither one will amplify the yellowness in the floor - because they are all in the same hue family range.

Snowbound is looking more like the winner probably because its low chroma-ness is aligning nicely with the low chroma areas in the woodgrain of the floor.

It'd be nice if you had the counter tops to help inform the decision, but you don't.

Snowbound relates well to the floor. You like the color. That's enough reason to make the decision for Snowbound.

A well harmonized walls and floor color relationship creates a flexible, neutral envelope. An adaptable strategy for gradually adding more stuff to the space.

Thank you for everyone’s feedback!! The painter held off till after the floors went in.. anyone able to look at these floors in Eastern evening light, able to tell me what off white would
Look nice here? My warm colors seemed to look a little off. I’m almost wondering if it’s the slight pink undertone in the floor

Anything with a yellow undertone, just looks “off”. But also with these fussy floors, I’m dealing w “smoked” (slightly grey) and pink

My husband picked the floors.

Here's three to check out.

Not your situation but kinda similar. This is an expanded list, typical colors that work with Red Oak floors. Again, not the same as yours but might be helpful.

You are spot on when you say that you are feeling like yellows are feeling off.

Your flooring does have a fair dose of pink.

Some of the whites and light neutrals that lean toward the pinker tones and will work nicely with your floor are below, along with close reference colors in your flooring.

The last 3 can sometimes pull a bit too pink, but you need to look at the colors next to your flooring and next to your cabinet color to determine which are too pink, too gray, too light or too dark.

I know it is tempting to compare one to the next, but really try to go through and look at one sample at a time with just the colors that will be staying and not introduce other whites or colors till you get down to two or three that work.

I like to look at samples in natural daylight - outside around 2:00 in the afternoon on a clear day is perfect. Every undertone comes to life under the sunlight and you see the undertones.

I also recommend either buying samples from Samplize or making your own samples, but painting them on separate boards - not all on one board where you can't isolate the color and cannot pair it directly next to the flooring and cabinet color. 2 feet away with a blue white background isn't going to give you a true feeling for the color.