Heartthrob
Heartthrob is a genuinely dark Red from Sherwin-Williams. Our real-world data shows it is a primary choice when homeowners need to anchor a room without demanding the spotlight. Below, you'll find 10 examples of this shade in actual homes along with suggested color relationships.
Hex
#A82E33
LRV
10.55
Heartthrob's Color Strip
Heartthrob is the fifth shade on this 7-color strip, sitting between Radish and Real Red. The strip spans from Exuberant Pink at the lightest end to Positive Red at the deepest. Browsing strip 101 alongside this color helps you gauge whether to go lighter, darker, or stay right here.
Heartthrob in Real Rooms
Heartthrob has a low LRV of 10.55 — 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 bathroom, bedroom, dining room, front door, home office, living room, mudroom, patio, kitchen and house.
1 Bathroom Photo
In a powder room, Heartthrob can be used floor-to-ceiling to create a dramatic, high-impact experience for guests. Because these rooms are small and transitional, they can handle the full intensity of the color's personality without feeling overwhelming.
Heartthrob — vintage bathroom
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1 Bedroom Photo
Heartthrob 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 moody bedroom painted in Heartthrob
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1 Dining Room Photo
Heartthrob encourages conversation. Its calm, grounded presence creates a sense of safety and comfort that allows guests to relax and stay at the table longer, which is the ultimate goal of any well-designed dining area.
Heartthrob paint in a mid century dining room
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1 Front Door Photo
Using Heartthrob for the front door allows the hardware to be the "jewelry" of the house. Whether you choose a modern long-bar handle or a traditional knocker, the color provides the perfect stage for the metalwork to shine.
classy front door featuring Heartthrob by Sherwin-Williams
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1 Home Office Photo
In a multi-use room where an office corner is required, Heartthrob 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 Heartthrob in a art deco home office
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1 Living Room Photo
For open-concept living rooms, Heartthrob is a powerful tool for definition. It has enough presence to signal where the living area begins without creating a harsh visual break from the rest of the house. It defines the "zone" of relaxation through color psychology and sophisticated depth.
A traditional living room painted in Heartthrob
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1 Mudroom Photo
Heartthrob in the mudroom earns its keep. It's a color that can handle the traffic — grounding enough to hide the daily chaos, and intentional enough to make the transition from outside feel considered and high-end.
Heartthrob paint in a industrial mudroom
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1 Patio Photo
Exterior color behaves differently than interior — there's more bleaching, more weather, and more competition from the natural surroundings. Heartthrob holds its character in open light and tends to look even better after a few seasons than it does fresh from the can.
contemporary patio featuring Heartthrob by Sherwin-Williams
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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. Heartthrob manages to bridge all three lighting scenarios with ease, which is a rarer quality in a paint pigment than it sounds.
Heartthrob — scandinavian kitchen
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1 House Photo
When choosing Heartthrob for an exterior, you are opting for a color that respects the landscape. It feels like it grew out of the earth rather than being dropped onto it, creating a harmonious relationship between the architecture and the garden.
Heartthrob color — transitional house inspiration
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Coordinating Colors
Ibis White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
At LRV 69 vs 11, Windfresh White is decisively the brighter choice.
Colonnade Gray reflects far more light (LRV 53 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
Trim Color
Ibis White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
Similar Colors
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.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
With LRVs of 13 and 11, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 11 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
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 10), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 13 vs 11), 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 13 and 11, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Complementary Colors
A 11-point LRV gap (21 vs 11) makes Surf Green the marginally brighter of the two.
At LRV 35 vs 11, Powder Blue is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 68 vs 11, Hinting Blue is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 57 vs 11, Watery is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 49 vs 11, Aquaverde is decisively the brighter choice.
Tidewater reflects far more light (LRV 65 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
At LRV 25 vs 11, Mountain Stream is decisively the brighter choice.
Lighter Colors
With LRVs of 13 and 11, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Their light reflectance is nearly identical (LRV 13 vs 11), so neither reads brighter in a room.
Grenadine reflects far more light (LRV 26 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
Begonia reflects far more light (LRV 26 vs 11), opening up a space where Heartthrob encloses it.
Feverish Pink reads slightly lighter (LRV 17 vs 11), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Darker Colors
With LRVs of 11 and 10, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.