Bird Of Paradise

This is a color that decides the room rather than supporting it. Behr's designation for it is 260B-7.

Chroma 61.8 is high enough that the color will bounce onto light surfaces, so expect it everywhere, not only on the wall. A powder room or a nook is often the right scale for a color this strong - enough impact without living with it in every sightline.

Warm bulbs make it warmer still; daylight bulbs cool it back toward neutral. LRV 39.0 tells you how much light comes back, which matters less here than how much color comes with it.

In warm light this stays orange; under cooler, daylight-style bulbs it can slide toward red. It's close enough to that edge that a sample is worth checking in the room's own lighting, not under a store's. Rooms already built around blues and cool greys are the hardest fit for this color - the two are opposites, and opposites next to each other rarely feel calm.

Next to it, white trim reads brighter and cooler than it does anywhere else in the house - the gap in light reflectance is what does that, not the trim paint itself. For layering, pair this with a clearly lighter mid-tone on a secondary wall or cabinetry, and keep the ceiling close to white. The gap between each step should be big enough to see without thinking about it (roughly 39.0 / 62 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Dunn-Edwards Clear Vision pairs well as a second surface - close enough in feel to belong in the same room, far enough in lightness to read as two distinct walls (about 47 points apart on the reflectance scale). Matte suits a color this strong - a glossier sheen would turn every light source in the room into a visible hotspot on the wall.

For anyone tied to a different brand, PPG Carmelized Orange (1197-7) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 2.67. Across the other brands, nothing lands within delta-E 2 of this one - there is no easy substitute.

It is lighter than 47 percent of the Behr range. This is a crowded part of the scale - 540 colors measure within a point of 39.0 - so most brands will have something close. Behr lists it in the 200 series, alongside 209 other colors.