# Millet in a warm modern room

Millet, from the Anderson Tuftex Imperial Pecan line, is a mid dark pecan hardwood with a golden undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 15). Here it is with Revere Pewter walls, Alabaster trim, and Upward 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
- Millet, Anderson Tuftex Imperial Pecan: Engineered hardwood · Pecan · 7.5 in (SKU AA828-17058)
- Price: $7.89 per sq ft · $203.33 a carton. Material only. Delivery and installation extra.
- Every color and detail: https://www.powellflooring.com/floors/andersontuftex/imperial-pecan/millet

## Measured from its own picture
- LRV (light reflectance value, 0 black to 100 white): 15
- CIELAB (D65): L* 44.9, a* 9, b* 20.4, chroma 22.3, hue 66.2 degrees
- Undertone: a golden undertone, warm without leaning red
- It has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 1.9 in L*): calm, but not flat.

## Paint
- Walls: Revere Pewter (Benjamin Moore HC-172, LRV 55.1, +40.6 from the floor). A soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 95°), so the floor stays golden without turning yellow. Source: https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-colors/color/hc-172/revere-pewter
- Or walls: Dover White (Sherwin-Williams SW 6385, LRV 82.5, +68 from the floor). A soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 93°), so the floor stays golden without turning yellow. Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors/sw6385-dover-white/
- Trim and ceilings: Alabaster (Sherwin-Williams SW 7008, LRV 82.2). A white with a little warmth (chroma 5.3), so trim does not look blue beside a warm floor. Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/white-paint-colors/sw7008-alabaster/
- Cabinets: Upward (Sherwin-Williams SW 6239, LRV 57.4). A light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off a dark floor (a 43 point step in LRV). Source: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/blue-paint-colors/sw6239-upward/
- Cabinets in Upward or Alabaster: 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 16 points darker than the floor (L*), far enough to read as a choice.
- Wood a step lighter: a light natural wood, like our Silvered Gray stain sample. About 16 points lighter than the floor (L*).
- Rug or fabric, tone on tone: putty (#c1b0a2). The floor's own warmth at half the strength, 28 points lighter.
- Rug or fabric, across the wheel: mist blue (#a7bbc9). The opposite side of the color wheel from the floor, softened, to balance it.
- Rug or fabric, grounding: espresso (#392e26). A deep note 25 points from the floor, so a rug keeps its edge.
- Metal: aged brass. A warm metal that agrees with the floor's golden undertone.
- Metal: unlacquered brass. A warm metal that agrees with the floor's golden undertone.
- Metal: matte black. Black works with every undertone and gives a light room its outline.

## What to avoid
- Walls at the floor's own lightness: Kendall Charcoal (Benjamin Moore HC-166, LRV 14.6) sits within a point of this floor, so wall and floor would blur into one.
- Wood that almost matches: a table in a tone like our Nutmeg stain sample is only 3.0 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
- Creamy yellow walls: yellow on yellow flattens a golden floor.

## The room it suits
- An LRV of 15 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.
- Across a 12 foot room it lays about 20 boards, so the room reads open with few seams.
- Engineered hardwood: living spaces and bedrooms on every level, kept out of full baths.
- Hardness: Pecan: Janka 1,820 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.