# Egmont Key in a dark and moody room

Egmont Key, from the Legacy Flooring Collection Coastal line, is a dark vinyl plank with a soft greige undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 8). Here it is with Amazing Gray walls, Greek Villa trim and Snowbound on the cabinets, chosen by the numbers.

A vision board by Powell Flooring, 1811 Union Valley Rd, West Milford, NJ 07480, 973-728-9717. AI assisted: the rooms are AI generated, simulated photos; the floor, the paint colors and every number are real.
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## The floor
- Egmont Key, Legacy Flooring Collection Coastal: Waterproof vinyl plank · SPC · 9.06 in (SKU W6548)
- Every color and detail: https://www.powellflooring.com/floors/legacy/coastal/egmont-key

## Measured from its own picture
- LRV (light reflectance value, 0 black to 100 white): 8
- CIELAB (D65): L* 33.8, a* 2.7, b* 12.3, chroma 12.6, hue 77.8 degrees
- Undertone: a greige: soft gray with a little warmth
- The grain and color of Egmont Key move from board to board (a spread of 3.2 in L*), which helps hide everyday wear.

## Paint
- Walls: Amazing Gray (Sherwin-Williams SW 7044, LRV 46.9, +39 from the floor). A warm white or greige in the same soft family as Egmont Key (hue 81° against its 78°). Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/neutral-paint-colors/sw7044-amazing-gray/
- Or walls: Thunder (Benjamin Moore AF-685, LRV 47.6, +39.7 from the floor). A warm white or greige in the same soft family as Egmont Key (hue 92° against its 78°). Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/af-685/thunder
- Trim and ceilings: Greek Villa (Sherwin-Williams SW 7551, LRV 84.2). 76 points over Egmont Key in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its greige undertone. Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors/sw7551-greek-villa/
- Cabinets: Snowbound (Sherwin-Williams SW 7004, LRV 82.8). A light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Egmont Key (a 75 point step in LRV). Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors/sw7004-snowbound/
- Cabinets in Snowbound or Greek Villa: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.

## Wood, rugs and metals
- Wood a step lighter: a warm gray brown wood, like our Warm Gray stain sample. About 14 points lighter than Egmont Key in L* (48 against 34).
- Rug or fabric, tone on tone: mushroom (#9c948c). 6 in chroma, half the warmth of Egmont Key (13), and 28 points lighter in L*.
- Rug or fabric, across the wheel: slate blue (#8d9cac). Hue 258°, straight across the color wheel from the 78° of Egmont Key, softened to balance it.
- Rug or fabric, grounding: fog gray (#c8c2bb). A light note at L* 79, 45 points from the 34 of Egmont Key, so a rug keeps its edge.
- Metal: aged brass. A warm metal that agrees with the greige undertone of Egmont Key (hue 78°).
- Metal: champagne bronze. A warm metal that agrees with the greige undertone of Egmont Key (hue 78°).
- Metal: brushed nickel. A soft satin nickel, quieter than chrome, for the greige of Egmont Key.

## What to avoid
- Walls at the lightness of Egmont Key: Urbane Bronze (Sherwin-Williams SW 7048, LRV 8.1) sits within a point of its LRV of 8, so wall and floor would blur into one.
- Wood that almost matches Egmont Key: a tone like our Heritage Brown sample, 4.3 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
- Stark blue whites everywhere: a greige floor like Egmont Key turns muddy beside them. Keep the whites a little warm.

## The room it suits
- At LRV 8, Egmont Key is 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 9.06 inches a board, Egmont Key lays about 16 boards across a 12 foot room, so the room reads open with few seams.
- Egmont Key is waterproof, so it belongs in kitchens, baths, mudrooms and basements as well as living spaces.
- Core: SPC, a rigid stone polymer core (firm underfoot and resists dents from furniture)
- 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.