Continue the pine flooring. It may be a custom order.

With your wood cabinets and amazing wood floor I would not want to do another wood or vinyl, I would go with porcelain tile or stone. If the red were not in it I would be pitching to keep the slate. I wonder if a skilled tilelayer could replace just the red? Yes, they'd hate you.

This could be such a great space.

What catches my eye as dated are the planks behind the fireplace, the "stone " around the fireplace, the faux brick wall and the Michelin Man sofas.

The existing floor is quite suited to the pine floor in the living room, it's the bleached lap siding and brick wall that are out of touch.

for me, a paint over, both the brick wall and the fireplace wall siding to unify the whole house (living area) .

Your area rug is too small for the room. some window coverings to cozy up.

Paint is less expensive than replacing floor tile.

If those brick walls stay, then gray porcelain tile would be a good floor for the space. 12 x 24 size.

I think the darker tile makes a better statement in the space.

Too bad you don't like them. Even with the red, I love those floors. I would get someone in to give them a good cleaning, fresh grout and sealer. That wall of brick doesn't look great to me - wrong color. And the bleached shiplap by the fireplace doesn't seem to go with the rest of the wood.

The wide pine planks are awesome, but that is a softer wood so I am sure they might be worn out. Beverly's floor ideas look nice - just get a warm gray.

Bring home lots of samples to see against your cabinets and in your light before deciding.

Good luck

IMO the slate is perfect in that house but the white brick not so much for me the slate is awesome and a bit unusual in a good way. Pine is not the best choice for flooring and I honeslty do not like tile everywhere no rest for backs and knees ever .

Thanks everyone! The furniture is not there to stay! also, what color do you recommend for the brick wall, and white shiplap? also, the brick isn’t fake! @Debbi Washburn @Lyn Nielson

The brick looks like it doesn’t go corner to corner or even to the ceiling- so fake? If so pull it down, it adds nothing but visual clutter. You have enough textures.

Interesting- we had a mason out to do the fireplace and he confirmed it was real brick @HALLETT & Co.

You've got plenty of light for a color drench. the fireplace would be the feature and your leather furniture comfortable. the rug is great, just put at least the front legs of your furniture ON the rug. I would love to see the rest of the space, is the kitchen open to the living room?

I would paint the living room SW Mineral Gray a gret compliment to the beams and floor.

kmul77 - I think what people are saying is that the wall in the kitchen is not a real brick wall - not that there aren't actual bricks (vs. faux bricks) applied to the wall.

It's clearly not a real brick wall since the brick does not go to the ceiling or from corner to corner (as stated in HALLETT & Co.'s comment). It's drywall that has had a brick veneer attached - not a structural brick wall that people uncover in older homes.

I think it’s a cool house but this brick wall is obviously fake (it’s built from real brick but not used in an authentic way)

I like the slate floors. I would remove or cover the white brick wall.

I think the plank wall around the fireplace should match the color of the rest of the walls. There is a lot happening in that space - different wood stains, beams, the brick on the fireplace and the textured ceiling.

For the brick wall, the color is out of place for me and it looks really busy. The wood beams in that area seam very different from the wood beams in the living room. Not sure if they can be stained a different color. I think I would paint it the same color as the walls including the grout so it tones it down a bit. It is too bad the wood trimming the brick doesn't stick out a little farther than the brick to make it look more like a brick wall with timbers.

Actually if I were spending money, I would leave the slate floors as is and cover over that swirly ceiling in the LR and remove the brick (or cover) and remove the horizontal plank wall. Those are the distracting and odd out of place things in your house, trendy or not.

I wonder if you could do a penetrating stain to make those red tiles be more charcoal? If you have any loose ones / attic stock you could do some tests.

^agree - simplifying everything will bring the space together I think

@HALLETT & Co.

Do you think removing and replacing individual red slate tiles and fitting new gauged slate tiles in their place would actually be the less expensive option? In my area I am not sure it would be: if replacing the entire floor was the plan there would be a couple of big unskilled laborers in there with sledge hammers and the whole thing would be gone in a couple hours. ( I had an entire mud bedded bathroom in a dumpster in 25 minutes with a contractor I used in an earlier place.). My tile setter would be there for days on end carefully cutting out and refitting individual tiles without damaging anything else.

I am not being disagreeable, I am just wondering if something like this has been cheaper in your experience.

You own something that is crazy expensive because it is such a rare and limited. The unfading red was up to 7 times more expensive than gray or black because the only mines with this unfading red color are the mines on the New York/Vermont border. The purple and green are also rare colors. I don't remember the cost I was quoted for enough purple slate to cover a small space, but I believe it was around $30 per square ft, and that was 10 years ago.