# Crescent Beach in a traditional room

Crescent Beach, from the Shaw Floors Coral Springs line, is a mid dark maple hardwood with an amber undertone (LRV 16, measured from its own picture). Here it is with Palladian Blue walls, Swiss Coffee trim, and Palladian Blue cabinets, chosen by the numbers.

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## The floor
- Crescent Beach, Shaw Floors Coral Springs: Engineered hardwood · Maple · 5 in (SKU SW591-01023)
- Price: $6.39 per sq ft · $151.19 a carton. Material only. Delivery and installation extra.
- Every color and detail: https://www.powellflooring.com/floors/shawfloors/coral-springs/crescent-beach

## Measured from its own picture
- LRV (light reflectance value, 0 black to 100 white): 16
- CIELAB (D65): L* 46.5, a* 7.7, b* 12.5, chroma 14.7, hue 58.3 degrees
- Undertone: an amber undertone, warm and a little orange
- Crescent Beach is calm and even from board to board (a spread of 1.5 in L*), so it reads as one quiet plane.

## Paint
- Walls: Palladian Blue (Benjamin Moore HC-144, LRV 60.4, +44.8 from the floor). Its undertone leans green (hue 163°), which quiets the orange in Crescent Beach (hue 58°) instead of echoing it. Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/hc-144/palladian-blue
- Or walls: Sea Salt (Sherwin-Williams SW 6204, LRV 63.2, +47.6 from the floor). Its undertone leans green (hue 133°), which quiets the orange in Crescent Beach (hue 58°) instead of echoing it. Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/green-paint-colors/sw6204-sea-salt/
- Trim and ceilings: Swiss Coffee (Benjamin Moore OC-45, LRV 81.9). 66 points over Crescent Beach 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: Palladian Blue (Benjamin Moore HC-144, LRV 60.4). A light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Crescent Beach (a 45 point step in LRV). Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/hc-144/palladian-blue
- Cabinets in Palladian Blue 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 18 points darker than Crescent Beach in L* (29 against 47), far enough to read as a choice.
- Wood a step lighter: a light natural wood, like our Silvered Gray stain sample. About 15 points lighter than Crescent Beach in L* (61 against 47).
- Rug or fabric, tone on tone: dove gray (#c2b5ad). 7 in chroma, half the warmth of Crescent Beach (15), and 28 points lighter in L*.
- Rug or fabric, across the wheel: mist blue (#aac0cc). Hue 238°, straight across the color wheel from the 58° of Crescent Beach, softened to balance it.
- Rug or fabric, grounding: espresso (#372f2a). A deep note at L* 20, 27 points from the 47 of Crescent Beach, so a rug keeps its edge.
- Metal: unlacquered brass. A warm metal that agrees with the amber undertone of Crescent Beach (hue 58°).
- Metal: aged brass. A second warm metal in a worn finish, so the brass beside Palladian Blue walls never looks new and loud.
- Metal: matte black. Black works with every undertone; beside Crescent Beach at LRV 16 it gives the room its outline.

## Room by room
- Living room: Palladian Blue walls, Swiss Coffee trim and crown, a patterned rug in mist blue and espresso on Crescent Beach, furniture in a charcoal wood, unlacquered brass lamps.
- Kitchen: Cabinets in Palladian Blue so they float off Crescent Beach, Swiss Coffee walls and trim, aged brass pulls.
- Dining room: Sea Salt walls, a table in a charcoal wood, chairs in dove gray, an unlacquered brass chandelier.
- Bedroom: Palladian Blue walls, dove gray bedding, a mist blue throw, nightstands in a light natural wood.

## What to avoid
- Walls at the lightness of Crescent Beach: 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 Crescent Beach: a tone like our Warm Gray sample, 3.4 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 Crescent Beach (hue 58°).

## The room it suits
- At LRV 16, Crescent Beach 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, Crescent Beach lays about 29 boards across a 12 foot room.
- Engineered hardwood: living spaces and bedrooms on every level, kept out of full baths.
- Hardness: Hard maple: Janka 1,450 lbf (the force to press a steel ball halfway into the wood; a higher number dents less under heels and chair legs)
- Construction: Engineered (a real wood face over a stable core, so it moves less with the seasons)

## 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.
- Janka hardness from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory Wood Handbook (2021), Table 5-3b, at 12 percent moisture.