Gray is the new white to me. It has enough color to add something to the room, matches practically every color and it doesn't overpower decor pieces or furniture. The next apartment I move to is getting gray walls.

This is what I have in my house. I used "Silver Traditions" by BEHR. It looks very clean and sophisticated. The entire house is the light grey but then I painted an accent wall in some of the rooms. Seems that everything looks great with grey. Go for it.

I've just put different grays throughout my new house and I have oak floors, too. I love it! I've got Benjamin Moore Gray Husky in the living room, Silhouette in the Dining Room and Revere Pewter in my bedroom. I'm currently house rich and cash poor, so I hardly have any furniture--lots of floor is visible.

We have pale grey walls with teak floors done in a warm-toned finish. Both are a perfect foil for decorating since both read as neutral (in terms of interior design). Once you've placed your furniture, etc, the difference in colour won't be as noticeable.

This picture is actually really close to the color scheme (wood floors, wall color, and the white molding) I have in my apartment--in my living room and a main hallway. I love it. I think the gray is a very versatile color, allowing me to mix modern furniture and bright colors.

I choose gray, because I wanted a color on my walls, but I wanted something relatively neutral that wouldn't overshadow any other decor--and something I wouldn't tire of easily.

LOL, I concede the vote, gray wins. Go for it!

The mix of cool gray and natural oak floors will be a wonderful contrast! We have the same colors in our house, and it's a perfect combination of warm and inviting (floors) and sophisticated (grey walls). Also, as other commenters have mentioned, they are both neutrals. You can add in pops of color--pretty much any hue will look great.

I think its fine. If it was honey-oak it might be a problem. But the natural oak is actually fairly neutral.

I literally just did exactly what you're asking about last weekend. My new apartment has warm hardwood floors and had a nasty pale yellow on the walls of what we turned into our home office. With our Ikea black and white desks we chose to paint the walls a light grey (Behr Manhattan Mist if you're curious) and it looks fantastic. The trim is all bright white. Now the room looks soothing, soft, and elegant. I love it. Can't wait to put up some white floating shelves!

My apartment is like this. Looks great in all lighting, especially the bedroom, which is a cool sage color. Very relaxing and soothing. Go for it!

We have honey floors and I've done the whole first floor in slightly beige-ier grays that I think work well. I've got Edgecomb Gray in the MBR, and Manchester Tan in the main living space. Despite the name, I think the MT definitely reads greige in my space--it's a good way to get the neutral gray tone I wanted while still complementing the HWFs.

We ended up with cool gray walls and warm-toned flooring on accident but are now in love. My one caution is to pay attention to the color of the trim. After painting our master bedroom a very light gray, we discovered that our trim is not the ultra white we're used to having. In fact, it was almost ivory in some places, and we couldn't tell if it was on purpose or because a the paint had yellowed over time. The blue-based gray walls completely clashed with the yellow-based white trim. We ended up repainting the trim with a carefully selected white. My advice would be to hold an ultra-white paint chip up to the trim to figure out what tones are present in the white to make sure the gray will look good against it. The contrast with the wood flooring should be no problem. Once you have furniture in the room, the difference will not be stark or overpowering.

This is exactly what we are doing in our house! The color grey in the picture is almost the same as what we are painting now. We are ripping up carpet and living on bare concrete for a while till we can afford floors, but from the research I've done this shade of grey works with light and dark woods, as well as black and white furniture. Also, you can get away with just about any metal shade for hardware or furniture - weathered industrial, polished silver and chrome, gold, and bronze. The only hard part will be the fact that you have almost TOO MANY choices with this palette. Enjoy! :)

we just bought an 1891 farmhouse with natural oak floors and white trim, but the walls are very bright colors. we plan to soon paint them shades of gray. so glad I saw this post for inspiration! I say go for it, gray looks great with everything!

Personally, it's what I'm planning for part of my house that we're fixing up.
While Maxwell said in the color cure not to mix cool and warm tones, the general consensus in color theory is that very good color combinations can be made by combining colors that are either opposite each other on the color wheel, or arranged in a triangle. Basically, what that means is that the grey will nicely balance out the warm floors.

That's the color scheme of my living room and hallway. It looks great.

My apartment has bamboo floors resembling oak, and I painted my bedroom a slightly darker grey than pictured ... it looks great.

I have a living room that is painted a slightly darker, though slightly warmer, shade of grey and it works very well in my opinion. I love the way grey makes white trim pop.

our floors are sort of a maple color (from the 50's - has been hard to match but is so pretty) and our walls are martha stewart sharkey gray (which is a bit on the greige side, but looks totally neutral and not warm in our house because of the light) with glossy bright white trim. I LOOOOOVE it so much more than the much safer camel-colored walls we had before, though there was an adjustment period.

That's what I'm going to do at my house. Hardwood floors with a very sophisticated grey. Go for it! :)

I have this combo in my apartment and it looks great!! Classy and timeless. Depending on the time of day the gray can be cool or warm.

We'll be painting our living room in that combination soon! The great thing is that it is timeless and you can combine it with virtually anything.

As everyone else has said, it will be fine b/c they are both neutral. That's what I have in my house--you can see a pic here: http://bit.ly/qktKbs

http://redhouseblog.com/2011/06/12/living-room-finished/

Our living room is 'sterling' by behr and our floors are some sort of wood that we stained a dark reddish color. I love it.

I think it will look fine, although my personal preference is for grays that are slightly "warmer".

Our floors are a warm maple, and we have cool grey walls. It never occurred to me that it might not look good...

I don't know if it is a warm gray or a cool gray, but I painted my dining room with Benjamin Moore's Silver Fox and have not regretted it once. The living room and hall went one shade lighter on the color card. This is in a condo with oak floors.

I would make my decision based on the predominate coolness/warmness of my furnishings.

Also consider some "coolness" on the floors and some "warmness" on the walls; meaning warm artwork and cool rugs or low furnishings. It will help balance the two extremes--good source for philosophy is any of the old Christopher Lowell books (not neccessarily his design style).

We have that same combination - honey oak floors with Stonington Grey (BM) walls, and I like it just fine. We previously had BM's Fernwood Green on the walls, and that worked well too.

I love it -- seems like they balance each other.

Not sure if this helps, but we recently bit the bullet and painted our walls a dark gray and have wood floors. Here are some pics (you have to suffer through pics of our kitchen too): https://picasaweb.google.com/102162851031238378365/BeforeAndAfterPaint?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKnTp8ST7KDbsAE&feat=directlink

i painted all the rooms in my old house light grey with bright white trim against oak floors in my old house. i loved it. it was so soothing and calming and it made a great backdrop for everything. my new older house will go in the same direction, except with pine floors.

I think cool gray walls and warm wood floors are a stunning combination! After a washer overflow last year ruined the entire downstairs of our home, we grabbed the chance to paint the walls gray (Glidden's "Toasted White") and re-floor with warm hickory planks.

For a few days I worried we'd gone too neutral, but as we added items back I realized the gray provided a gorgeous backdrop for framed art, and really brought out the richness of our wood furniture. The result ultimately proved so appealing, I remodeled my website with a similar warm, mustard yellow + gray palette!

I also Googled your color scheme and found this mustard, gray & white palette for you (not my site, no affiliation: http://www.theperfectpalette.com/2011/07/mustard-gray-white-click-to-enlarge-top.html) which I think drives home just how pretty, modern, and rich this combination can be.

I think you'll be pleased. Good luck!

Our wood floors are a tad darker than this, but we paired them with Behr's "Silver Drop" and "Dolphin Fin". Love it.

We have warm flooring, in a similar color and just repainted our tan walls with a light grey. It's Benjamin Moore's Plymouth Rock--- which looks really greige (as I call it) and like a warm grey, until you pair it with the white trim and warm flooring--- we find it goes really well with both warm and cool colors.

Cool grays with wood flooring makes for a classy and neutral canvass to decorate from. My living room has exactly the same hues as the pic.

Walls: Dulux dusted moss 2
Ceilings and skirting trim: Dulux brilliant white
Floor: Ronseal light oak satin on pine floorboards

What is the color gray shown in
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