Color Schemes For Living Rooms With Dark Wood Floors. Since the walls take up the color it is also good to add neutrals to the rest of the finishes. Large living room featuring gray walls and a gray couch, along with a large area rug and a fireplace.
Similarly to the green color on the wall, the color blue can also make pairing the furniture and finishes fun, picking contrasting or complimentary colors to the fabrics and finishes in the space can add the last needed thing to a room. When walls are dark, it tends to make a room feel smaller and bring down the ceiling height for a cozy effect. They can be different tones and shades of the same color, known as a monochromatic color scheme.
This gorgeous modern living room features dark hardwood flooring that simultaneously contrasts and picks up some of the more orange tones of the wood of the entertainment.
If you prefer a bit of color, go with a whisper-light blue or lavender. "Embrace small spaces and make them feel like jewel boxes—don't be afraid of dark or bright colors," says designer Jonathan Adler.
Walls and floors that are very different in tone have a tendency of highlighting both as separate features of the space. When choosing paint colors for a room, it's important to consider several factors: the purpose for which the room is used the quality of light which the room receives and the style in which the room will be decorated. It's a bold choice, but his go-to hue for small spaces is Benjamin Moore's Outrageous Orange, though he says any jewel tone will do.