Thank you all so much for responding. I like the idea of green. We have large french doors looking into the garden and I think this might reflect and compliment the outside and so detract somewhat from the floor. It was properly sealed with Lithofin which was the recommended product and we have had it cleaned by a specialist company using diamond floor pads. We've been told it's just the natural composition of the stone manifesting itself! The upshot is instead of it being a lovely off white all over its streaked with brown giving an overall beigey/light brown appearance. It was a basement renovation so floor was previously concrete. It's such a large area that it makes quite an impact.

Hi Darin, You have a fantastic space and a well dressed room. I would suggest a neutral wall colour possibly in an off-white or cream to compliment your furnishings. I can see you have a great gallery wall which is a good focal point for your room. If you would like any help finding some artwork for your walls, please let me know. I look forward to seeing how you get on. Summer FineArtSeen

Thank you both very much. We originally went for cornflower white as it appeared to just have a very tiny hint of grey-blue, and we were trying to continue the theme from our lounge which has just been decorated in 'sea mist' by johnstones (grey-duck egg colour, brilliant white woodwork with calico/dirty cream furnishings, and F&B elephants breath coloured linen style curtains). Evidently this attempt hasn't worked though! We didn't find any warm whites that didn't look too yellow when we were doing our (very limited) research, so I'll have to have another hunt around. Thanks vansoire14, I've looked up F&B pointing, however as always on the Internet the shade appears quite varied in appearance so I'll dig out my F&B colourchart and see if I can get a tester. Our aim with the room is to create a calm space with hints towards vintage/retro and -accessories in natural colours/textures. We also don't want the room to look too sparse or bright in the morning (it's south facing with a large window so is flooded with light all morning. We did have brilliant white in there for a little while as a base after plastering but that seemed too clinical and stark compared to the rich wood veneer kitchen and dappled tiles. Our kitchen although from the 80s, has intergrated stainless steel handles and looks a bit like the some of the German brand kitchens. I like vintage anyway, hence why we're keeping the kitchen and tiles. Thanks again for the advice, please keep the ideas coming.

It's perfectly classic to put blue-grey and terracotta together. (Quite literally in the case of half-glazed pottery). How about staying with the blue but, for the 'cosiness' you want, accentuating one wall in a terracotta that blends with the suite colour? You'd get a 'tone on tone' effect for at least one of the sofas, which would soften the repetitive 'X-piece suite-'ness of them whilst celebrating their colour and drawing attention to their rather lovely form. (I mean, in the case of a sofa set against a wall of almost the same colour, you 'read' the shape more than the colour). Then it's a case of using your accessories to tip the balance more towards the 'cold' blue or the 'warm' terracotta. Colefax and Fowler had some lovely copper-brown and grey-blue contemporary geometric fabrics last time I looked - maybe you could splash out on enough for a few scatter cushions...