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wooden floor paint colour dilemma

2 years ago

Cottage landing walls and woodwork in F&B Green Smoke ....leading to a bedroom in F&B Setting Plaster and Inchyra woodwork .....another bedroom in a light neutral . What colour should I paint the wooden floors leading from the landing into all the bedrooms ? Thanks for any ideas

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Ellen Utley Interiors
2 years ago
How practical would you like it? White is fresh and shows when it needs cleaning, goes with all colours. A light grey would be more practical yet more masculine. If you would like to go crazy a bright colour would be pretty practical too. Need to know more about your brief but my advice is that a medium colour is more practical on the floor yet I went for white to brighten the space and feel clean
ahmbdiryh
Original Author
2 years ago
Thank you very much for your advice . I painted the floors Little Green Slaked Lime 105 ....a nice white but still wonder if it’s right . I’ve attached some photos of the landing leading into a bedroom . It’s a small Victorian cottage . Thanks again for your thoughts
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2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
It is a bit dark and ofcourse the effect is different by photograph but colours look wonderful to me. If you are not quite sure the answer may lie in the other elements of design:

Space, Objects, Form, Texture, Lighting, Furniture, Colour.

E.g. the pictures on the walls may be better balanced placed closer together in line with the headboard, you may want to see where you are going better with ambient lighting, the shapes of furniture and objects may need to tie more... I would not know without doing the research and the work but hope that helps.
ahmbdiryh
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2 years ago
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my dilemma. Your thoughts are very inspiring and I will look to adding and balancing the pictures closer together and reflecting on the other elements . Very much appreciated x

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