Heavenly Garden

Neither bold nor shy - a yellow-green undertone with enough weight to matter and enough restraint to live with. Heavenly Garden is Vista Paint's 0457.

37.0 on the light-reflectance scale puts it in the middle third, which is the part of the scale with the fewest surprises. Chroma 10.1 sits in a comfortable middle: present enough to notice, restrained enough to live with.

A reasonable choice for a room that needs to feel grounded without going as dark as a true accent color. A warm bulb is the easiest fix if this reads colder than expected once it is on the wall. For a secondary wall, Dunn-Edwards Crystal Bell gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 48.7 LRV points apart).

Rooms already built around purples 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 37.0 / 61 / 85 on the reflectance scale).

If the brand is not fixed, Behr Green Trellis (MQ6-17) is the same color by measurement - delta-E 0.59. This is a relatively uncrowded spot in the spectrum - just 2 colors from other brands come this close. Matte or low-sheen suits it on walls; higher gloss will exaggerate the undertone.

It is lighter than 35 percent of the Vista Paint range. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.