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Vision board · Dark and moody
Light Maple, from the Robbins Timber Legends 7-1/2" Red Maple line, is a dark maple hardwood with an amber undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 8). Here it is with Coventry Gray walls, Swiss Coffee 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.
Light Maple has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 2.6 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 129°), which quiets the orange in Light Maple (hue 65°) instead of echoing it.
See it at Benjamin MooreIts undertone leans green (hue 97°), which quiets the orange in Light Maple (hue 65°) instead of echoing it.
See it at Sherwin-Williams74 points over Light Maple in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.7) to read white, not blue, beside its amber undertone.
See it at Benjamin MooreA light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Light Maple (a 49 point step in LRV).
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsCabinets in Upward or Swiss Coffee: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
| Role | Color | Maker and code | LRV | From the floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Light Maple | Robbins Timber Legends 7-1/2" Red Maple | 8 | |
| Walls | Coventry Gray | Benjamin Moore HC-169 | 48.2 | +40 |
| Or walls | Repose Gray | Sherwin-Williams SW 7015 | 58.2 | +50 |
| Trim and ceilings | Swiss Coffee | Benjamin Moore OC-45 | 81.9 | +74 |
| Cabinets | Upward | Sherwin-Williams SW 6239 | 57.4 | +49 |
Contrast, not a match.
The palette put to work around Light Maple.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Light Maple and color, answered from the numbers above.
Coventry Gray (Benjamin Moore HC-169, LRV 48.2): its undertone leans green (hue 129°), which quiets the orange in Light Maple (hue 65°) instead of echoing it. It sits 40 LRV points from the floor (LRV 8), more than the 30 points that keep a wall and a floor reading apart. Or Repose Gray (Sherwin-Williams SW 7015, LRV 58.2).
Swiss Coffee (Benjamin Moore OC-45, LRV 81.9): 74 points over Light Maple in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.7) 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 Light Maple (a 49 point step in LRV). Cabinets in Upward or Swiss Coffee: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
Contrast, not a match: a step lighter: a honey tone (like our Golden Oak stain sample). A wood like our Chestnut sample is only 6.3 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Living room: Coventry Gray walls and Swiss Coffee trim over Light Maple, velvet in mushroom with a eucalyptus pillow, aged brass lamps on low. Kitchen: Cabinets in Upward so they float off Light Maple, Swiss Coffee walls and trim, unlacquered brass pulls.
Dark: LRV 8 and L* 34, measured from its own picture, with an amber undertone. At LRV 8, Light Maple 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.
Walls at the lightness of Light Maple: 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 Light Maple: a tone like our Chestnut sample, 6.3 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
Light, size and wear, from the floor's own record.
At LRV 8, Light Maple 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 7.5 inches a board, Light Maple lays about 20 boards across a 12 foot room, so the room reads open with few seams.
Engineered hardwood: living spaces and bedrooms on every level, kept out of full baths.
What only this floor's data can say.
Light Maple is lighter than 21 percent of the 1,739 hardwood floors we carry, measured the same way, and warmer than 81 percent of them.
The same look in waterproof vinyl or laminate: Cognac, Stanton Timber Land, only 1.8 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
To get this color on an oak floor you already have, the nearest of our stains is Chestnut (6.3 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
| Width | 7.5 in |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 7/16" |
| Wear layer | 2 mm |
| Finish | Urethane |
| Installation | Staple with glue assist |
| Species | Maple |
| Construction | Engineered Hardwood |
| Carton | 28 sq ft |
Every color, price and detail on its own page.
Light Maple
Timber Legends 7-1/2" Red Maple · HPEM681W
Engineered hardwood · Maple · 7.5 in
$7.99 per sq ft · $223.72 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.
Janka hardness from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory Wood Handbook (2021), Table 5-3b, at 12 percent moisture.
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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