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Best Wall Colors for Grey Floors – Here Are Some Ideas with Photos

Written By Keshia Mogopa

Grey floors are a classic and refined neutral that serve as the foundation for modern, traditional, urban, and contemporary interior design.

living room with grey floor

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Considering the tints, tones, and shades of your grey flooring is crucial before you surround it with complementing wall colors.

Grey is understated, creates an enveloping mood, and subtly gives the room more depth. Ahead, we share ideas on some of the best wall colors for grey floors.

Table of Contents

  • White walls with grey floors
  • Grey walls with grey floors
  • Blue walls with grey floors
  • Blush walls with grey floors
  • Yellow walls and grey floors
  • Sage green and grey floors
  • Navy blue and grey floors
  • Earthy red walls and grey floors
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White walls with grey floors

White is the first wall color that looks good with grey floors. Because gray is a neutral hue, many people may assume that white walls might complement gray flooring.

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However, this is not the ultimate reason. Grey flooring and white wall paint always look stunning together since they have the ideal contrast ratio and work in harmony to create a beautiful aesthetic.

Any grey floor can be teamed with any white paint, whether it’s soft white, ultra-white, or even matte white. This classic pairing of white walls and grey floors can be used to craft stunning contemporary, minimalist, modern, or even chic mid-century styles. 

Grey walls with grey floors

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Grey with grey is a good choice if you desire a monochromatic color palette. That may sound a little… drab, but using grey alone can make a room as intriguing as using it with any other color. The key to getting it right is Contrast!

Your selected grey colors shouldn’t be too similar in shade and using a variety of tones will offer visual interest.

If you can choose the ideal light grey to give a darker floor enough contrast, the resulting look will be a sophisticated, monochromatic aesthetic.

Bright grey walls can provide just the right balance that softens the cold nature of a dark grey floor.  For an industrial or minimalist look, fully embracing a grey atmosphere might be what your overall aesthetic needs.

A grey-on-grey base also works brilliantly if you plan on incorporating accent colors through furnishings and decorative pieces. 

Blue walls with grey floors

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Another color that will help grey flooring appear more natural is blue. This is so because the color blue exudes a calming, serene, and relaxing ambiance.

Thankfully, blue is a naturally cool hue. This implies that even lighter blue hues will always go well with grey. Because of this, blue can be used to complement the tone of your grey floors or simply to improve the overall mood.

Blush walls with grey floors

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Blush pink is the perfect color for subtly enhancing grey tones without actually adding too much warmth or being overly bright.

A soft, dusky pink will make a space feel cozy and inviting. Blush is the best option for this effect because it is more gentle than other shades of pink and definitely less daring and bright than red.

Yellow walls and grey floors

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Want to use more daring color choices in your home but aren’t quite ready to give up on grey? So, marry your love of neutrals with your need for vibrancy in the room.

The coolness of grey floors can be softened by a brilliant sunny yellow, a soft pastel lemon, or perhaps a more subdued ochre, providing both depth and visual interest.

Sage green and grey floors

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For the past several months, sage green has been all the rage! And because it is a soothing, grounding, and gentle tone, it pairs incredibly well with grey.

In fact, when used with grey, this subdued green almost becomes neutral. If you want a modern look without sacrificing the overall relaxed and laid-back vibe, sage green is the perfect color for your walls.

Navy blue and grey floors

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Navy blue is the ideal pick if you’re looking for a wall color that goes brilliantly with any shade of grey. Both a classic and trendy hue, navy will effortlessly find its place no matter the design style you’re going for.

It conveys sophistication and refinement and can establish a focal point that evokes a sense of drama and visual intrigue. To add warmth to the room, pair navy walls with soft, light grey flooring. Alternatively, team navy with charcoal grey flooring for a sense of drama.

Earthy red walls and grey floors

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Grey and red may seem a little daring for most people, but if you choose the perfect tone for your walls, they work perfectly.

Mid-tone to dark grey floors look wonderful with a red that has been toned down, like an earthy terracotta color.

Earthy reds are a great way to give a space a lot more warmth and make the room a lot more delightful to look at. For this combination, you may want to add in a heavy dose of white in a form of furnishings to brighten up those earthy red walls and grey floors.


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About Keshia Mogopa

Education: Universiti Teknologi Kreatif Limkokwing
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interior Architecture, 2006-2011

Keshia is a freelance interior designer and digital content writer. She attended a design school in Malaysia, graduated with an honors degree in Interior Architecture, and worked briefly for a Japanese design firm.

Keshia has been writing about interiors professionally for 8 years - her first role was a Features Writer for a newspaper, working on titles such as Inspiration for Your Home & Office and Construction Ideas for Custom Home Build. She’s currently embracing the move to digital using the same knowledge and expertise to produce high-quality content writing for clients in the US, UK, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Anyone that knows Keshia will tell you that sustainable design and planning is her biggest passion and she’s always on the hunt for the latest, greatest stories to share with a bigger audience.

Follow Keshia on LinkedIn: keshiamataboge & Instagram: @lifestylenoted

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