My floor in the basement / lower ground floor corridor looks like on the first photo. The stairs and skirting are painted dark red, and the walls are yellowish beige. It all looks a bit tired and gloomy, so I would like to repaint it, but I am not sure which colour scheme to choose. The doors lead to various utility spaces (boiler room, laundry, boot room). These rooms have patterned cement tiles with shades of blue, grey and green and the walls are currently emerald green at the bottom, and cream tiles above the dado rail, but I think I will change the green to grey - so a grey/blue colour scheme would work altogether.
I found photos of an old kitchen with the floor like mine. Depending on the light the walls seem more blue, or grey. Which one would you choose? Or would everything just look best white?
I am also considering a wallpaper on the staircase wall, and the rest painted. It would be visible upstairs when the door is open. I like the one attached for example. If I chose that, would the stairs and rest of the woodwork be better white, or grey? For context, all woodwork in the house is off white, but I don’t mind changing it in this area.