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Neutral, a DuraSeal stain, is a mid tone stain on red oak with a golden undertone (measured from its own picture: LRV 24). Here it is with Repose Gray walls, Greek Villa trim and Cascades 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.
Neutral has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 2.1 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.
A soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 97°), so Neutral stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 95°), so Neutral stays golden without turning yellow.
See it at Benjamin Moore60 points over Neutral 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 132° around the color wheel from Neutral and 20 points darker in LRV, so each makes the other look richer.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsLower cabinets or an island in Cascades, uppers and trim in Greek Villa. The floor at LRV 24 sits between the two (4 and 84).
| Role | Color | Maker and code | LRV | From the floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Neutral | DuraSeal stain on red oak | 24 | |
| Walls | Repose Gray | Sherwin-Williams SW 7015 | 58.2 | +34 |
| Or walls | Revere Pewter | Benjamin Moore HC-172 | 55.1 | +31 |
| Trim and ceilings | Greek Villa | Sherwin-Williams SW 7551 | 84.2 | +60 |
| The deep note | Cascades | Sherwin-Williams SW 7623 | 4.2 | -20 |
Contrast, not a match.
The palette put to work around Neutral.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Neutral and color, answered from the numbers above.
Repose Gray (Sherwin-Williams SW 7015, LRV 58.2): a soft neutral with a touch of warmth (hue 97°), so Neutral stays golden without turning yellow. It sits 34 LRV points from the floor (LRV 24), more than the 30 points that keep a wall and a floor reading apart. Or Revere Pewter (Benjamin Moore HC-172, LRV 55.1).
Greek Villa (Sherwin-Williams SW 7551, LRV 84.2): 60 points over Neutral in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its golden undertone.
Cascades (Sherwin-Williams SW 7623, LRV 4.2): deep and cool, about 132° around the color wheel from Neutral and 20 points darker in LRV, so each makes the other look richer. Lower cabinets or an island in Cascades, uppers and trim in Greek Villa. The floor at LRV 24 sits between the two (4 and 84).
Contrast, not a match: a step darker: a charcoal wood (like our Heritage Brown stain sample), or a step lighter: a pale, bleached wood (like our Country White stain sample). A wood like our Weathered Oak sample is only 3.6 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Living room: Repose Gray walls, Greek Villa trim and crown, a patterned rug in graphite and chocolate on the Neutral floor, furniture in a charcoal wood, unlacquered brass lamps. Kitchen: Cascades on the island, Greek Villa cabinets, aged brass knobs, the Neutral floor underfoot.
Mid tone: LRV 24 and L* 56, measured from its own picture, with a golden undertone. At LRV 24, Neutral 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 Neutral: Retreat (Sherwin-Williams SW 6207, LRV 20.9) sits 3 points from its LRV of 24, so wall and floor would blur into one. Wood that almost matches Neutral: a tone like our Weathered Oak sample, 3.6 apart (CIEDE2000), reads as a near miss. Go clearly darker or lighter.
Light, size and wear, from the floor's own record.
At LRV 24, Neutral 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 2.25 inches a board, Neutral lays about 64 boards across a 12 foot room, the busy, tailored look of a classic strip floor.
A sand and finish of red oak strip floors in any room above grade.
What only this floor's data can say.
The same look in waterproof vinyl or laminate: Appealing Warmth, Robbins Pacific Path 8.03", only 1.1 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
The nearest of our other stains is Weathered Oak (3.6 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
A stain we put on your own oak floor.
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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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