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Natural Red Oak from the Mullican Newtown Plank 3" line is a mid tone red oak hardwood with a golden undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 28). It pairs with Crushed Ice walls, Alabaster trim, and Newburg Green as the deep note, chosen by the numbers.
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Read from its own picture, not from a name.
A golden undertone, warm without leaning red. 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.
The grain and color of Natural Red Oak move from board to board (a spread of 3.4 in L*), which helps hide everyday wear.
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.
A soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 93°), so Natural Red Oak stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 106°), so Natural Red Oak stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Benjamin Moore55 points over Natural Red Oak in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its golden undertone.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsDeep and cool, about 157° around the color wheel from Natural Red Oak and 17 points darker in LRV, so each makes the other look richer.
See it at Benjamin MooreLower cabinets or an island in Newburg Green, uppers and trim in Alabaster. The floor at LRV 28 sits between the two (11 and 82).
| Role | Color | Maker and code | LRV | From the floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Natural Red Oak | Mullican Newtown Plank 3" | 28 | |
| Walls | Crushed Ice | Sherwin-Williams SW 7647 | 65.5 | +38 |
| Or walls | Cloud White | Benjamin Moore OC-130 | 85.1 | +57 |
| Trim and ceilings | Alabaster | Sherwin-Williams SW 7008 | 82.2 | +55 |
| The deep note | Newburg Green | Benjamin Moore HC-158 | 10.6 | -17 |
Contrast, not a match.
The palette put to work around Natural Red Oak.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Natural Red Oak and color, answered from the numbers above.
Crushed Ice (Sherwin-Williams SW 7647, LRV 65.5): a soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 93°), so Natural Red Oak stays golden without turning yellow. It sits 38 LRV points from the floor (LRV 28), more than the 30 points that keep a wall and a floor reading apart. Or Cloud White (Benjamin Moore OC-130, LRV 85.1).
Alabaster (Sherwin-Williams SW 7008, LRV 82.2): 55 points over Natural Red Oak in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its golden undertone.
Newburg Green (Benjamin Moore HC-158, LRV 10.6): deep and cool, about 157° around the color wheel from Natural Red Oak and 17 points darker in LRV, so each makes the other look richer. Lower cabinets or an island in Newburg Green, uppers and trim in Alabaster. The floor at LRV 28 sits between the two (11 and 82).
Contrast, not a match: a step darker: a mid brown wood (like our Chestnut stain sample), or a step lighter: a pale, bleached wood (like our Country White stain sample). A wood like our Silvered Gray sample is only 5.6 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Living room: Crushed Ice walls and Alabaster trim around Natural Red Oak, a linen rug with a walnut brown border, a coffee table in a mid brown wood, aged brass lamps. Kitchen: Newburg Green on the island or the lower cabinets, Alabaster uppers, unlacquered brass pulls, Natural Red Oak underfoot.
Mid tone: LRV 28 and L* 60, measured from its own picture, with a golden undertone. At LRV 28, Natural Red Oak is a mid tone: it holds its color in a sunny room and hides everyday dust and pet hair better than a very dark or very light floor.
Walls at the lightness of Natural Red Oak: Evergreen Fog (Sherwin-Williams SW 9130, LRV 30.4) sits 3 points from its LRV of 28, so wall and floor would blur into one. Wood that almost matches Natural Red Oak: a tone like our Silvered Gray sample, 5.6 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
Light, size and wear, from the floor's own record.
At LRV 28, Natural Red Oak is a mid tone: it holds its color in a sunny room and hides everyday dust and pet hair better than a very dark or very light floor.
At 3 inches a board, Natural Red Oak lays about 48 boards across a 12 foot room, the busy, tailored look of a classic strip floor.
Engineered hardwood: living spaces and bedrooms on every level, kept out of full baths.
What only this floor's data can say.
Natural Red Oak is lighter than 65 percent of the 1,744 hardwood floors we carry, measured the same way, and warmer than 73 percent of them.
The same look in waterproof vinyl or laminate: South Beach, Shaw Floors Uptown Now 12, only 0.9 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
To get this color on an oak floor you already have, the nearest of our stains is Silvered Gray (5.6 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
| Width | 3 in |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 1/2" |
| Finish | Aluminum Oxide Finish |
| Species | Red oak |
| Construction | Engineered Red Oak Hardwood |
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Natural Red Oak
Newtown Plank 3" · 19960
Engineered red oak hardwood · Red oak · 3 in
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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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