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Vision board · Traditional
Carolina Pine, from the COREtec Originals Classics line, is a mid dark vinyl plank with an amber undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 16). Here it is with Palladian Blue walls, Alabaster trim, and Upward on the cabinets, chosen by the numbers.
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Read from its own picture, not from a name.
An amber undertone, warm and a little orange. 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.
Carolina Pine has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 2.7 in L*): calm, but not flat.
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.
Its undertone leans green (hue 163°), which quiets the orange in Carolina Pine (hue 63°) instead of echoing it.
See it at Benjamin MooreIts undertone leans green (hue 133°), which quiets the orange in Carolina Pine (hue 63°) instead of echoing it.
See it at Sherwin-Williams67 points over Carolina Pine in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its amber undertone.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Carolina Pine (a 42 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 | Carolina Pine | COREtec Originals Classics | 16 | |
| Walls | Palladian Blue | Benjamin Moore HC-144 | 60.4 | +45 |
| Or walls | Sea Salt | Sherwin-Williams SW 6204 | 63.2 | +48 |
| Trim and ceilings | Alabaster | Sherwin-Williams SW 7008 | 82.2 | +67 |
| Cabinets | Upward | Sherwin-Williams SW 6239 | 57.4 | +42 |
Contrast, not a match.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Carolina Pine and color, answered from the numbers above.
Palladian Blue (Benjamin Moore HC-144, LRV 60.4): its undertone leans green (hue 163°), which quiets the orange in Carolina Pine (hue 63°) instead of echoing it. It sits 45 LRV points from the floor (LRV 16), more than the 30 points that keep a wall and a floor reading apart. Or Sea Salt (Sherwin-Williams SW 6204, LRV 63.2).
Alabaster (Sherwin-Williams SW 7008, LRV 82.2): 67 points over Carolina Pine in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its amber undertone.
Upward (Sherwin-Williams SW 6239, LRV 57.4): a light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Carolina Pine (a 42 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 Nutmeg sample is only 2.9 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Mid dark: LRV 16 and L* 46, measured from its own picture, with an amber undertone. At LRV 16, Carolina Pine 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 Carolina Pine: Distance (Sherwin-Williams SW 6243, LRV 15.2) sits within a point of its LRV of 16, so wall and floor would blur into one. Wood that almost matches Carolina Pine: a tone like our Nutmeg sample, 2.9 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, Carolina Pine 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 5 inches a board, Carolina Pine lays about 29 boards across a 12 foot room.
Carolina Pine 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 12 times, chosen 8 times since 2024.
Carolina Pine is lighter than 26 percent of the 1,197 vinyl floors we carry, measured the same way, and warmer than 95 percent of them.
The same look in real wood: Warm Sunset, Shaw Floors Pebble Hill Mixed Width, only 1.3 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
To get this color on an oak floor you already have, the nearest of our stains is Nutmeg (2.9 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
| Width | 5 in |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 0.314" |
| Wear layer | 20 mil |
| Finish | UV Acrylic |
| Edge | Micro bevel |
| Installation | Floating or direct glue |
| Core | WPC |
| Construction | COREtec Residential WPC |
| Carton | 26.47 sq ft |
| Water | Waterproof (the maker's word) |
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Carolina Pine
COREtec Originals Classics · VV023-00501
Waterproof vinyl plank · WPC · 5 in
$6.39 per sq ft · $169.14 a carton
Material only. Delivery and installation extra.
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Powell Flooring, 1811 Union Valley Rd, West Milford, NJ 07480
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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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