Having walls with yellow undertones such as cream should be avoided.
Dark grey walls white trim wood floors.
But sometimes doing 1 dark gray accent wall paired with whites on the other walls can really work.
If you have dark wood floors and trim and you paint your walls a dark brown or a dark green you have the same dark shade of color from floor to ceiling.
This combination can also give a clean and open look but it s important to know which shades to stick with.
From the picture above the transitional effect is created by the way the gray trim separate the warm white wall color from the white ceiling and the dark tone hardwood flooring.
I think people tend to think of wood as a neutral.
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Use the whites i suggested above.
In general i m not a fan of gray on gray as it s too monochromatic when paired with gray floors.
Similar to light toned flooring white wall paint colors easily match with grey wood look flooring.
Instead stick with cool and pure whites.
Another big problem that i see is that people do not think of their wood trim and flooring as a shade of color.
This function also builds up the traditional look in the same space.
You just need to find the right undertone pending on the color of the floor.