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Paint colour suggestions to link oak flooring upstairs with neutral tiles

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7238SM · 19/04/2026 16:50

Upstairs has light, oak flooring and down stairs greige/white tiles. These are the same colours (minus the darker Egyptian cotton and the palest timeless which I haven't painted down stairs). I realise the colours online aren't representative either, but I'm loosing the will so any help appreciated.
Top to bottom on the 2nd pic, all Dulux:

White Almond
Natural Calico
Natural Hessian
Just Walnut
Nutmeg White
Welsh Flint

Paint colour suggestions to link oak flooring upstairs with neutral tiles
Paint colour suggestions to link oak flooring upstairs with neutral tiles
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7238SM · 19/04/2026 20:39

Has anyone used these colours?

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Nettleskeins · 20/04/2026 10:19

Natural Calico has a slightly pink undertone and so does Nutmeg white (I did not like the effect of the latter with a pale oiled oak floor and changed it to Jasmine White) I would go with a slightly more orange or tan undertone if that is your flooring undertone or the flooring will leap out. Natural Calico looked beautiful with my pale tan/orange washed cork flooring if that is any help to you.

You need to get A4 samples and hold them up against tiles and wood. Kylie M interiors (Canada)blogger which I recently discovered has lots of examples of matching painttones with tiles and wood. I then convert Sherwin williams with e paint converter ....I've learnt so much! It's the greiges which gets you muddled !

Nettleskeins · 20/04/2026 10:44

You have to decide whether your greige tiles have a sandy yellowy undertone a grey green undertone or a pink undertone. If you put your five A 4 samples separately against the tiles you will see immediately which ones clash (IE too contrasting in tone or slightly "off")

Dulux Heritage also has in its chart quite a good scale of the colours going from pale to dark in each group and you can see the apparently similar greiges all leaning to different families of colours, blue /yellow/pink/red orange /purple.

I've also noticed over a few rooms that you want the floors darker or at least warmer than the walls. So you don't want a light warm cream on walls and a less "warm" grey brown floor unless the grey brown is a bit darker than the walls in some way. It feels odd for some reason.

7238SM · 20/04/2026 13:30

@Nettleskeins Thank you so much. All your info is very useful 😊

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