Summer's End

Saturated enough that everything else in the room answers to it. Vista Paint files it as 1017.

Chroma 38.5 is high enough to dominate a room's palette rather than join it. On one wall of an otherwise neutral room, this reads as a deliberate choice rather than an overwhelming one.

In a room that gets little direct sun, this color's warmth does some of the work daylight would otherwise be doing. LRV 38.0 puts it in the middle of the scale, but saturation, not lightness, is what you will react to.

This color sits right on the line between orange and red - cooler light nudges it toward red, warmer light keeps it in orange (about 7° apart on the color wheel, for anyone measuring). Worth checking before committing to a full wall: blues and cool greys nearby - in a floor, a rug, a piece of furniture - will read as a clash here, not a complement, since the two colors sit at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Anything pale placed against this wall will look paler than it is; anything warm-metal will look warmer. Neither is an illusion the color plays deliberately - it is simple contrast, but worth planning rather than discovering. The safest multi-color scheme moves from this dark wall to a noticeably lighter secondary tone, then to a near-white ceiling - three genuinely different depths rather than three shades of the same idea (LRV 38.0, 62 and 85, if you're matching by the numbers).

For a secondary wall, Behr Maui Mist gives a natural step up in brightness without feeling like a mismatch (roughly 366 LRV points apart). If the wall needs to be washable, eggshell is the highest sheen worth considering before the color starts looking artificial under light.

For anyone tied to a different brand, Valspar Peach Ice Cream (2007-5C) is the nearest stand-in, at a delta-E of 1.63. Only 1 other-brand color land within delta-E 2 of this one, which makes it comparatively unusual.

It is lighter than 38 percent of the Vista Paint range. The name is not unique: Valspar 6005-4C also sells a color called Summer's End, and it is not the same shade. Vista Paint lists it in the C codes, alongside 1,421 other colors.