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Vision board · Dark and moody
Pearl Cove, 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 Mindful Gray walls, Alabaster trim and Simply White on the cabinets, chosen by the numbers.
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Read from its own picture, not from a name.
A greige: soft gray with a little warmth. 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.
Pearl Cove has a gentle movement from board to board (a spread of 2.4 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 warm white or greige in the same soft family as Pearl Cove (hue 90° against its 85°).
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA warm white or greige in the same soft family as Pearl Cove (hue 92° against its 85°).
See it at Benjamin Moore75 points over Pearl Cove in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its greige undertone.
See it at Sherwin-WilliamsA light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Pearl Cove (a 82 point step in LRV).
See it at Benjamin MooreCabinets in Simply White or Alabaster: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
| Role | Color | Maker and code | LRV | From the floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor | Pearl Cove | Legacy Flooring Collection Coastal | 8 | |
| Walls | Mindful Gray | Sherwin-Williams SW 7016 | 47.7 | +40 |
| Or walls | Thunder | Benjamin Moore AF-685 | 47.6 | +40 |
| Trim and ceilings | Alabaster | Sherwin-Williams SW 7008 | 82.2 | +75 |
| Cabinets | Simply White | Benjamin Moore OC-117 | 89.5 | +82 |
Contrast, not a match.
The near misses, by the numbers.
About Pearl Cove and color, answered from the numbers above.
Mindful Gray (Sherwin-Williams SW 7016, LRV 47.7): a warm white or greige in the same soft family as Pearl Cove (hue 90° against its 85°). 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 Thunder (Benjamin Moore AF-685, LRV 47.6).
Alabaster (Sherwin-Williams SW 7008, LRV 82.2): 75 points over Pearl Cove in LRV and warm enough (chroma 5.3) to read white, not blue, beside its greige undertone.
Simply White (Benjamin Moore OC-117, LRV 89.5): a light color with some life in it, so cabinets float off Pearl Cove (a 82 point step in LRV). Cabinets in Simply White or Alabaster: a dark floor needs light cabinets to float above it.
Contrast, not a match: a step lighter: a honey tone (like our Warm Gray stain sample). A wood like our Heritage Brown sample is only 4.2 apart (CIEDE2000) and reads as a near miss.
Dark: LRV 8 and L* 33, measured from its own picture, with a soft greige undertone. At LRV 8, Pearl Cove 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 Pearl Cove: 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 Pearl Cove: a tone like our Heritage Brown sample, 4.2 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, Pearl Cove 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, Pearl Cove lays about 16 boards across a 12 foot room, so the room reads open with few seams.
Pearl Cove is waterproof, so it belongs in kitchens, baths, mudrooms and basements as well as living spaces.
What only this floor's data can say.
One of our most-asked-for floors: estimated 12 times, chosen 2 times since 2022.
Pearl Cove is lighter than 5 percent of the 1,197 vinyl floors we carry, measured the same way, and warmer than 22 percent of them.
The same look in real wood: Granite, Mullican Aspen Grove 5", only 3.0 apart in color (CIEDE2000).
To get this color on an oak floor you already have, the nearest of our stains is Heritage Brown (4.2 apart, CIEDE2000, from our own photographs on red oak).
| Width | 9.06 in |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 7.5 mm |
| Installation | Click System – Floating |
| Core | SPC |
| Construction | SPC Rigid Core Waterproof Vinyl |
| Carton | 30.14 sq ft |
| Water | Waterproof (the maker's word) |
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Legacy Flooring Collection
Pearl Cove
Coastal · W6544
Waterproof vinyl plank · SPC · 9.06 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.
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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