Chinese Red
With a focus on genuinely dark tones, Chinese Red (0057) is a standout Red in our database. It was selected for this featured gallery for its ability to anchor a room without demanding the spotlight. See it applied across 10 real world scenarios and find professional pairing data below.
Hex
#9E3E33
LRV
10.96
Chinese Red in Real Rooms
Chinese Red has a low LRV of 10.96 — it absorbs light and reads as a genuinely dark, enveloping color. It's neutral in temperature and , making it adaptable across different lighting conditions and room orientations. Grouped in the Red family, the photos below show it applied in a front door, bedroom, bathroom, home office, dining room, mudroom, patio, house, kitchen and living room.
1 Front Door Photo
In a world of boring front doors, Chinese Red is a breath of fresh air. It's a sophisticated choice that works with almost any siding color, providing a much-needed focal point that guides guests naturally toward the entrance.
stylish front door featuring Chinese Red by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Bedroom Photo
Chinese Red 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.
A art deco bedroom painted in Chinese Red
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1 Bathroom Photo
Pairing Chinese Red with natural stone like travertine or slate creates an earthy, elemental bathroom that feels connected to nature. It moves the design away from plastic-heavy modernism toward something much more timeless and tactile.
Chinese Red — vintage bathroom
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1 Home Office Photo
The transition from "home life" to "work life" can be signaled by the color of the room. Entering a space painted in Chinese Red provides a mental shift, telling your brain that it's time to settle in and be productive.
Sherwin-Williams Chinese Red in a art deco home office
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1 Dining Room Photo
The color Chinese Red has a way of making wood furniture look its best. Whether you have a dark mahogany table or a light oak sideboard, the undertones of the paint will pull out the natural beauty and grain of the wood.
Chinese Red paint in a contemporary dining room
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1 Mudroom Photo
In a laundry/mudroom combo, Chinese Red adds a touch of luxury to a space that is usually purely functional. It makes the chores feel a little less like work by surrounding you with a color that is sophisticated and calming.
Chinese Red paint in a earthy mudroom
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1 Patio Photo
Outside, Chinese Red takes on a completely different life. Whether on deck boards, patio furniture, a fence, or a garden wall, it weathers beautifully and holds its character in open light. It is a natural companion to stone, weathered wood, and greenery.
boho patio featuring Chinese Red by Sherwin-Williams
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1 House Photo
Exterior paint earns its keep over years, not months — it needs to handle bleaching summers, wet winters, and the slow shifts of a neighborhood's context. Chinese Red has the depth and pigment quality to age gracefully through all of it.
Chinese Red color — scandinavian house inspiration
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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. Chinese Red manages to bridge all three lighting scenarios with ease, which is a rarer quality in a paint pigment than it sounds.
Chinese Red — earthy kitchen
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1 Living Room Photo
The beauty of Chinese Red in a living room lies in its versatility with textures. It provides a smooth, matte-like quality that contrasts beautifully against plush velvet sofas or chunky wool rugs. It's a color that invites you to stay a little longer, creating an atmosphere that feels established rather than just decorated.
A industrial living room painted in Chinese Red
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Coordinating Colors
Downy reflects far more light (LRV 81 vs 11), opening up a space where Chinese Red encloses it.
At LRV 51 vs 11, Shiitake is decisively the brighter choice.
Similar Colors
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 11 and 10, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 11 and 9, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 12 and 11, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 12 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 9), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 11 and 11, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
With LRVs of 11 and 10, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
At LRV 61 vs 11, Tradewind is decisively the brighter choice.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Stargazer reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 11), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 11-point LRV gap (22 vs 11) makes Blustery Sky the marginally brighter of the two.
Teal Stencil reads slightly lighter (LRV 19 vs 11), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Interesting Aqua reflects far more light (LRV 41 vs 11), opening up a space where Chinese Red encloses it.
At LRV 41 vs 11, Aqua-Sphere is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
A 3-point LRV gap (14 vs 11) makes Red Tomato the marginally brighter of the two.
Peppery reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 11), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 5-point LRV gap (16 vs 11) makes Jalapeño the marginally brighter of the two.
Ablaze reads slightly lighter (LRV 16 vs 11), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
A 4-point LRV gap (15 vs 11) makes Habanero Chile the marginally brighter of the two.
Darker Colors
A 3-point LRV gap (11 vs 8) makes Chinese Red the marginally brighter of the two.
A 4-point LRV gap (11 vs 7) makes Chinese Red the marginally brighter of the two.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
A 5-point LRV gap (11 vs 6) makes Chinese Red the marginally brighter of the two.
With LRVs of 11 and 10, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.