Spiced Honey vs Grounded Red
Where Spiced Honey belongs to Dulux's range, Grounded Red is a Jotun color. Hue-wise, Spiced Honey belongs to the beige-greige family and Grounded Red to the beige-pink family. Spiced Honey (LRV 26) reflects noticeably more light than Grounded Red (LRV 17), a difference of 9 points that becomes especially apparent in rooms with limited natural light. Both lean warm, so they'll behave similarly in mixed or changing light conditions. With a ΔE of 11.8, the contrast is hard to miss. These aren't variations on a theme — they're two different answers to the same question. Below you'll find 4 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Spiced Honey vs Grounded Red in Real Spaces
4 real rooms side by side. Seeing Spiced Honey and Grounded Red in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Living Room
In a living room, color works across both daylight and evening light — the same wall can read very differently at noon and at 8pm. The LRV gap is large enough that Spiced Honey will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Grounded Red would.
Bedroom
The context that matters most in a bedroom is how a color reads under a bedside lamp at night, not under noon daylight. Spiced Honey reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Grounded Red.
Dining Room
A dining room lit by a dimmed pendant or candles is one of the most forgiving environments for paint — warm light softens almost everything. Spiced Honey returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are one of the few spaces where you're genuinely enclosed by the paint color, which makes the choice between these two more consequential. Spiced Honey reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Grounded Red.
Color Details
Spiced Honey vs Grounded Red Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Spiced Honey on one side and Grounded Red on the other.
Digital color is approximate. These simulations are generated from the manufacturer's hex values and overlaid on grayscale room photos — your screen's calibration, brightness, and viewing angle all affect how they render. Before committing to either color, test physical samples in your own space under the light you actually live with.
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