Why warm blends win in low light
A metallic floor works because pigment at different depths in the resin catches light at different angles, and that requires light with some directionality and range to it. Daylight has both. A grid of pot lights has neither, and under it the cool blends, teal, glacier blue, cool pewter, lose the separation between their tones and settle into a single flat grey. Warm pigments do not have this problem: copper and bronze reflect strongly across the range that incandescent and warm LED light actually emits, so the floor still has depth at ten at night in a room with no window. This is not a preference, it is why we steer basement clients warm even when the sample board in the shop said otherwise.
The photography effect
Molten Copper is the blend clients photograph most, and the reason is that a camera sensor exaggerates exactly what this floor does: warm highlights against a dark ground, with the black veining giving the image structure. It is worth being aware of the flip side. A floor that photographs spectacularly can look calmer in person than the picture that sold it, so judge it from a sample poured on your slab, in your room, at the time of day you use the room.
Pairing it
This floor lives happily with wood, leather, black metal, brick and warm neutrals, and it is genuinely difficult with cool grey, chrome and blue. In a basement bar, a games room or a lounge that was going warm anyway, it makes the room. In a room that has not been decided yet, it decides it. We would rather you pour a sample board and sit with it for a week than commit a whole floor on a chip.