New floors slightly too red; change wall colors??

11 years ago

We just had our floors finished in an upper floor bedroom. They used the same wood as throughout that floor and we asked them to match the floors...well, the floors upstairs match what is downstairs but not the surrounding bedrooms/hall because apparently we have slightly different colors upstairs and down!! They are now completely finished because I stupidly did not check the stain halfway through. This is an addition and switching to wood (rather than carpet) was supposed to make it blend in...now it's worse! To top it off we painted a wall color that looks peculiar with the floor. We are going to ask the contractor tomorrow but I think this is our fault since we did not specify what to match the floor to... If we have to live with it can I tone "down" the red??
I like lavenders and blues, we just spent the weekend painting "beach plum" by BM and I think I hate it. Our downstairs (also "reddish" floors) is all yellows and I had never noticed that the floors are reddish. But I want cool colors upstairs. Dislike beige... Our house is a 1930s home. Plan to get a dark wood (black) canopy bed for this bedroom.

What do you think? Attached is floor pic of all upstairs rooms (yellowish), the new room (reddish) and the wall color...

I'm hating it and stressing about it...please help!!

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Backyard Biosphere
11 years ago
Our floors became a bit too yellow, and we decided to repaint to tone down the yellow wall. We actually went with beige (Maison Blanche, Sherwin Williams) with a jade/sage green for accents. It took a LLONG TIME to find a color that would keep the space light and bright, but give more pigment than white, and Not be yellow in anyway. You might have to do samples till you figure it out, we did a bunch--the light is so important!! Good luck!
veryanya
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11 years ago
Thanks backyard...I'm glad to hear it can be done. Ugh I spent about a month looking at paint samples to pick this plum color I now hate! I just went back in the room and now I think part f the red tint is definitely the purple wall reflection...
I hope to get suggestions for colors and then we will bu sample paint to do on large sections of wall this time.
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Backyard Biosphere
11 years ago
What I have been trying to do is unify my color scheme from the front to the back of the house, maybe if you were to use colors from or co-ordinating with the adjoining rooms it would help--I actually love picking colors, but you must use a large enough space and several spots to see how a color will look in YOUR space. I love blues, too, so I made the powder-room an intense, metallic blue, but that's it for the house. Where are you picking your paint from? Maybe you could get some of the reccomended palettes and start to pick from a pre-sorted selection--it does make things easier once you have narrowed down what you like and what works.

A green could look very nice with this floor.
veryanya
Original Author
11 years ago
Thanks... Our second bedroom is actually a pretty blue that I like. This one is the master. I thought it might be strange to do all green but maybe not... I'm going to look at the BM colors again at ace this weekend and start slowly again.

In the light the floor looks less red now, but a tinge pink. Now I'm thinking it is just the walls reflecting causing most of it.

If I got green, wondering if it would reflect on the floor and make it less link/red, or if the contrast wold make the red stand out more?? I really have no idea.
veryanya
Original Author
11 years ago
By pretty blue I meant pretty green there are 3 br upstairs, one we are keeping green, third one we need to repaint and the master we just mispainted plum. The bathroom I just painted a light mint.

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