Birdseye Maple
Birdseye Maple is a versatile and reflective Yellow from Sherwin-Williams. Our real-world data shows it is a primary choice when homeowners need to provide a clean, timeless feel that works across various lighting conditions. Below, you'll find 10 examples of this shade in actual homes along with suggested color relationships.
Hex
#E4C495
LRV
58.15
Birdseye Maple in Real Rooms
Birdseye Maple has a high LRV of 58.15 — it reflects a lot of light and will read pale and airy in most spaces. It's neutral in temperature and , making it adaptable across different lighting conditions and room orientations. Grouped in the Yellow family, the photos below show it applied in a front door, bathroom, home office, dining room, house, mudroom, kitchen, patio, living room and bedroom.
1 Front Door Photo
The front door is a great place to experiment with higher sheen levels. Birdseye Maple in a high-gloss finish creates a mirror-like surface that looks incredibly expensive and traditional, echoing the grand entryways of London or New York.
minimalist front door featuring Birdseye Maple by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Bathroom Photo
For bathrooms with limited natural light, Birdseye Maple provides a necessary "glow." It uses its subtle undertones to mimic the warmth of sunlight, preventing the space from feeling subterranean or overly dark, even in windowless layouts.
Birdseye Maple — industrial bathroom
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1 Home Office Photo
In a multi-use room where an office corner is required, Birdseye Maple can be used to "zone" the desk area. By painting just that section, you create a visual boundary that separates your professional life from your personal space.
Sherwin-Williams Birdseye Maple in a minimalist home office
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1 Dining Room Photo
Dining rooms are often the best place to take a "color risk." By choosing Birdseye Maple, you're opting for a shade that is saturated and confident, yet still refined enough to act as a neutral backdrop for colorful table linens and floral arrangements.
Birdseye Maple paint in a parisian dining room
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1 House Photo
On the exterior, Birdseye Maple holds up across all lighting conditions — crisp in full sun, rich and dimensional on overcast days. It pairs especially well with white trim, black window frames, and natural stone, giving the home a timeless, curated presence.
Birdseye Maple color — traditional house inspiration
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1 Mudroom Photo
Birdseye Maple handles the visual noise of a high-traffic entry point with ease. Coats, shoes, bags — the color grounds all of it without making the chaos worse. It's also incredibly forgiving of the scuffs and marks that come with daily use.
Birdseye Maple paint in a tiny mudroom
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1 Kitchen Photo
The challenge with kitchen color is longevity: it needs to look right at 7am under bright task lights and at dinner with the pendants dimmed low. Birdseye Maple manages to bridge all three lighting scenarios with ease, which is a rarer quality in a paint pigment than it sounds.
Birdseye Maple — scandinavian kitchen
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1 Patio Photo
Using Birdseye Maple on outdoor furniture or structures helps them "recede" into the shadows of the garden, creating a more seamless and naturalistic look. It avoids the harsh, synthetic feel that many outdoor-specific colors can have.
warm patio featuring Birdseye Maple by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Living Room Photo
When applied to living room walls, Birdseye Maple creates a sense of "visual quiet." It eliminates the erratic shadows found in busier spaces, instead providing a steady, rhythmic tone that ties together disparate furniture styles. It's the common thread that makes a room full of heirlooms and modern pieces feel like a cohesive collection.
A hollywood regency living room painted in Birdseye Maple
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1 Bedroom Photo
Birdseye Maple has a unique ability to make a bedroom feel larger yet more intimate at the same time. By softening the "edges" of the room, the walls seem to move back, while the warmth of the tone makes the bed feel like a safe, protected island in the center of the space.
Birdseye Maple — cozy bedroom
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Coordinating Colors
Restful White reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 58), opening up a space where Birdseye Maple encloses it.
At LRV 58 vs 15, Birdseye Maple is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
With LRVs of 61 and 58, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 58 and 57, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 58 vs 57), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Birdseye Maple reads slightly lighter (LRV 58 vs 53), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 61 vs 58), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 4-point LRV gap (58 vs 54) makes Birdseye Maple the marginally brighter of the two.
A 4-point LRV gap (58 vs 54) makes Birdseye Maple the marginally brighter of the two.
Ambitious Amber reads slightly lighter (LRV 63 vs 58), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 61 vs 58), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 60 and 58, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 58 vs 35, Birdseye Maple is decisively the brighter choice.
A 10-point LRV gap (58 vs 48) makes Birdseye Maple the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 81 vs 58, Twinkle is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 58 and 56, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 58 vs 3, Birdseye Maple is decisively the brighter choice.
Birdseye Maple reflects far more light (LRV 58 vs 44), opening up a space where Faded Flaxflower encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 58 vs 57), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Lighter Colors
Vital Yellow reflects far more light (LRV 75 vs 58), opening up a space where Birdseye Maple encloses it.
At LRV 88 vs 58, Roman Column is decisively the brighter choice.
Corallite reflects far more light (LRV 76 vs 58), opening up a space where Birdseye Maple encloses it.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 61 vs 58), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Medici Ivory reflects far more light (LRV 82 vs 58), opening up a space where Birdseye Maple encloses it.
Darker Colors
With LRVs of 58 and 57, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
A 4-point LRV gap (58 vs 54) makes Birdseye Maple the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 58 vs 39, Birdseye Maple is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 58 vs 46, Birdseye Maple is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 58 vs 57), so neither reads brighter in a room.