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Vision board · Warm modern
Brown Sugar from the Stanton Pinehill line is a mid dark vinyl plank with a golden undertone (LRV 16, measured from its own picture). Here it’s shown with Agreeable Gray walls, Alabaster trim, and Upward cabinets, chosen by the numbers.
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Read from its own picture, not from a name.
A golden undertone, warm without leaning red. LRV is light reflectance value, the share of light a surface sends back, the same scale paint makers print on every chip: 0 is black, 100 is white.
The grain and color of Brown Sugar move from board to board (a spread of 3.6 in L*), which helps hide everyday wear.
The shaded band is within 30 points of the floor. A wall inside it blurs into the floor; BS 8300 asks for at least 30 points between surfaces that meet.
Named colors with the maker's code and LRV, each linked to its page.
A soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 87°), so Brown Sugar stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 95°), so Brown Sugar stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Benjamin Moore66 points over Brown Sugar in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its golden undertone.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Brown Sugar (a 41 point step in LRV).
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsCabinets in Upward or Alabaster: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
| Role | Color | Maker and code | LRV | From the floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Brown Sugar | Stanton Pinehill | 16 | |
| Walls | Agreeable Gray | Sherwin-Williams SW 7029 | 60.4 | +44 |
| Or walls | Revere Pewter | Benjamin Moore HC-172 | 55.1 | +39 |
| Trim and ceilings | Alabaster | Sherwin-Williams SW 7008 | 82.2 | +66 |
| Cabinets | Upward | Sherwin-Williams SW 6239 | 57.4 | +41 |
Contrast, not a match.
The palette put to work around Brown Sugar.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Brown Sugar and color, answered from the numbers above.
Agreeable Gray (Sherwin-Williams SW 7029, LRV 60.4): a soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 87°), so Brown Sugar stays golden without turning yellow. It sits 44 LRV points from the floor (LRV 16), more than the 30 points that keep a wall and a floor reading apart. Or Revere Pewter (Benjamin Moore HC-172, LRV 55.1).
Alabaster (Sherwin-Williams SW 7008, LRV 82.2): 66 points over Brown Sugar in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its golden undertone.
Upward (Sherwin-Williams SW 6239, LRV 57.4): a light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Brown Sugar (a 41 point step in LRV). Cabinets in Upward or Alabaster: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
Contrast, not a match: a step darker: a charcoal wood (like our Ebony stain sample), or a step lighter: a light natural wood (like our Silvered Gray stain sample). A wood like our Golden Oak sample is only 6.5 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Living room: Agreeable Gray walls and Alabaster trim around Brown Sugar, a putty rug with an espresso border, a coffee table in a charcoal wood, aged brass lamps. Kitchen: Cabinets in Upward so they float off Brown Sugar, Alabaster walls and trim, unlacquered brass pulls.
Mid dark: LRV 16 and L* 47, measured from its own picture, with a golden undertone. At LRV 16, Brown Sugar is mid dark: it is at its best in a big room with good light and warm lamps, and it shows dust, pet hair and fine scratches more than a mid tone.
Walls at the lightness of Brown Sugar: Sage Green Light (Sherwin-Williams SW 2851, LRV 16.1) sits within a point of its LRV of 16, so wall and floor would blur into one. Wood that almost matches Brown Sugar: a tone like our Golden Oak sample, 6.5 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
Light, size and wear, from the floor's own record.
At LRV 16, Brown Sugar is mid dark: it is at its best in a big room with good light and warm lamps, and it shows dust, pet hair and fine scratches more than a mid tone.
At 9 inches a board, Brown Sugar lays about 16 boards across a 12 foot room, so the room reads open with few seams.
Brown Sugar is waterproof, so it belongs in kitchens, baths, mudrooms and basements as well as living spaces.
What only this floor's data can say.
One of our most-asked-for floors: estimated 2 times, chosen 2 times since 2026.
Brown Sugar is lighter than 28 percent of the 1,198 vinyl floors we carry, measured the same way, and warmer than 95 percent of them.
The same look in real wood: Yukon, PG Flooring Pacific Grade Solid Maple 3-1/4 in, only 1.1 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
To get this color on an oak floor you already have, the nearest of our stains is Golden Oak (6.5 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
| Width | 9 in |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 8.00 (1.5mm top + 5mm core + 1.5mm ixpe pad) |
| Installation | Float |
| Core | WPC |
| Construction | WPC |
| Carton | 26.57 sq ft |
| Water | Waterproof (the maker's word) |
Every color, price and detail on its own page.
Brown Sugar
Pinehill · 12851
Waterproof vinyl plank · WPC · 9 in
$4.49 per sq ft · $119.30 a carton
Material only. Delivery and installation extra.
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Powell Flooring, 1811 Union Valley Rd, West Milford, NJ 07480
Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm · Open later by request
Paint names, codes, hex and LRV as Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore publish them (each color links to its page).
BS 8300-2:2018 asks for a difference of at least 30 LRV points between adjacent surfaces, such as a floor and a wall, so the surfaces read apart.
The floor measured from its own picture in CIELAB (D65); the wood tones from our own photographs of 37 stains on oak.
A picture's lightness depends a little on how it was lit, so the floor's LRV is read from the evenly lit field the visualizer lays and rounded. See the real floor before you choose paint: visit the showroom, or ask for a free measure and estimate.
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