Look at the whole image before you start editing. Observe every details that are present. The whole point of color correction is to be able to create a new approach to a shot. There's no right or wrong way to color correct an image. It really comes down to your talent on how you process the image with your skills. Your job is to interpret what the director or client's mean and give life to their visions.
In the sample images above, I want it to look warmer but I don't want to make it all yellow/orange. So what I did is first (as always) balanced the image. You can either neutralize it manually or just use auto color (alt + A) either way it's fine. Then, I dragged both gamma and gain to yellow/orange; increased the amount of contrast, increased the amount of highlights, I dragged the shadows to blue a little bit and increased the color boost a little and also dragged the saturation down a little. Those are the things I did to achieved this look. Before it looks plain flat, now it has a warm vintage-ish look.
Whenever you grade, try to keep it interesting and show them a good work. People like to see colorist who catch little details and improved it. You got to go to different parts of the image and blend then on a realistic way and render out something that looks exactly what you want it to looked like, and make sure that what you're looking at the screen will match the results of your rendered footage.
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