Country Club

This is the kind of orange undertone that works in more rooms than it does not, which is rarer than it sounds. Country Club is Behr's 770B-5.

Light reflectance measures 28.0, which is enough to keep a room bright without bouncing light around. Chroma 11.0 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

A dining room or study suits this kind of mid-depth color, where the room is used at different times of day under different light. In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. For a secondary wall, PPG Windswept Beach gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 49 LRV points apart).

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.

The lighter the trim beside this, the more it will seem to glow - a side effect of the light-reflectance gap rather than anything special about the trim color. 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 28.0 / 57 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

Switching brands, Vista Paint Antigua Rose (8775) is the closest equivalent at delta-E 1.36, near enough for most rooms. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 2 colors from other brands come this close. This color reads consistently across most finishes, so the choice can come down to durability needs rather than how it changes the color.

It is lighter than 31 percent of the Behr range. The name is not unique: PPG 1139-6 also sells a color called Country Club, and it is not the same shade. Behr lists it in the 700 series, alongside 209 other colors.