# Cerith Oak in a modern farmhouse room

Cerith Oak from the COREtec Originals Premium line is a mid dark vinyl plank with an amber undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 17). Here it is with Chantilly Lace walls, Swiss Coffee trim, and Upward on the cabinets, chosen by the numbers.

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## The floor
- Cerith Oak, COREtec Originals Premium: Waterproof vinyl plank · WPC · 9 in (SKU VV810-04027)
- Price: $8.89 per sq ft · $235.32 a carton. Material only. Delivery and installation extra.
- Every color and detail: https://www.powellflooring.com/floors/coretec/coretec-originals-premium-vv810/cerith-oak

## Measured from its own picture
- LRV (light reflectance value, 0 black to 100 white): 17
- CIELAB (D65): L* 47.6, a* 8.2, b* 12.6, chroma 15, hue 57.1 degrees
- Undertone: an amber undertone, warm and a little orange
- Cerith Oak has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 2.1 in L*): calm, but not flat.

## Paint
- Walls: Chantilly Lace (Benjamin Moore OC-65, LRV 90, +73.5 from the floor). Its undertone leans green (hue 125°), which quiets the orange in Cerith Oak (hue 57°) instead of echoing it. Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/oc-65/chantilly-lace
- Or walls: Dover White (Sherwin-Williams SW 6385, LRV 82.5, +66 from the floor). Its undertone leans green (hue 93°), which quiets the orange in Cerith Oak (hue 57°) instead of echoing it. Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors/sw6385-dover-white/
- Trim and ceilings: Swiss Coffee (Benjamin Moore OC-45, LRV 81.9). 65 points over Cerith Oak in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.7) to read white, not blue, beside its amber undertone. Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/oc-45/swiss-coffee
- Cabinets: Upward (Sherwin-Williams SW 6239, LRV 57.4). A light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Cerith Oak (a 41 point step in LRV). Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/blue-paint-colors/sw6239-upward/
- Cabinets in Upward or Swiss Coffee: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.

## Wood, rugs and metals
- Wood a step darker: a charcoal wood, like our Ebony stain sample. About 19 points darker than Cerith Oak in L* (29 against 48), far enough to read as a choice.
- Wood a step lighter: a light natural wood, like our Silvered Gray stain sample. About 14 points lighter than Cerith Oak in L* (61 against 48).
- Rug or fabric, tone on tone: dove gray (#c6b8b0). 7 in chroma, half the warmth of Cerith Oak (15), and 28 points lighter in L*.
- Rug or fabric, across the wheel: mist blue (#acc3cf). Hue 237°, straight across the color wheel from the 57° of Cerith Oak, softened to balance it.
- Rug or fabric, grounding: espresso (#372f2a). A deep note at L* 20, 28 points from the 48 of Cerith Oak, so a rug keeps its edge.
- Metal: matte black. Black works with every undertone; beside Cerith Oak at LRV 17 it gives the room its outline.
- Metal: aged brass. A warm metal that agrees with the amber undertone of Cerith Oak (hue 57°).
- Metal: unlacquered brass. Left unsealed, it darkens with handling to a softer warm tone beside Chantilly Lace walls.

## Room by room
- Living room: Chantilly Lace walls and Swiss Coffee trim, a dove gray rug with an espresso edge on Cerith Oak, a coffee table in a charcoal wood.
- Kitchen: Cabinets in Upward so they float off Cerith Oak, Swiss Coffee walls and trim, aged brass pulls.
- Dining room: A table in a charcoal wood on Cerith Oak, chairs in a light natural wood, aged brass pendants.
- Bedroom: Dover White walls, dove gray linen, a mist blue quilt, unlacquered brass on the lamps.

## What to avoid
- Walls at the lightness of Cerith Oak: Sage Green Light (Sherwin-Williams SW 2851, LRV 16.1) sits within a point of its LRV of 17, so wall and floor would blur into one.
- Wood that almost matches Cerith Oak: a tone like our Warm Gray sample, 3.5 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
- Pink or peach beige walls: they pull more orange out of the amber undertone of Cerith Oak (hue 57°).

## The room it suits
- At LRV 17, Cerith Oak 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, Cerith Oak lays about 16 boards across a 12 foot room, so the room reads open with few seams.
- Cerith Oak is waterproof, so it belongs in kitchens, baths, mudrooms and basements as well as living spaces.
- Wear layer: 20 mil (about 0.51 mm of clear protection over the printed wood, the part that takes the traffic)
- Core: WPC, a wood plastic composite core (a little softer and quieter underfoot)
- Finish: UV Acrylic
- Water: Waterproof (the maker's word) (wet mopping is fine; a flood is not)

## Sources
- 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.