Coming Up Roses vs Real Red
Both are Sherwin-Williams colors. Both sit in the pink-red family, which is useful context if you're narrowing within a single hue direction. At LRV 30 vs 13, Coming Up Roses will read as the brighter of the two — a 17-point gap that matters most in north-facing or low-light rooms. They share a warm quality — useful to know if you're layering them in the same space. At ΔE 34.8, these are genuinely distinct colors — a strong contrast if used together, or a meaningful choice between two different directions. Below you'll find 3 real-room photo comparisons where both colors appear side by side, plus 5 simulated room previews.
Coming Up Roses vs Real Red in Real Spaces
3 real rooms side by side. Seeing Coming Up Roses and Real Red in actual rooms makes the difference concrete; browse the spaces below to get a feel for how each color lives on a wall.
Dining Room
Dining room light is typically the warmest in the house, which shifts both colors toward the red end of the spectrum compared to daylight. Coming Up Roses reflects noticeably more light off the walls, making the space read more open than Real Red.
House
At full exterior scale, the difference between these two colors becomes much easier to judge than from a small chip. The LRV gap is large enough that Coming Up Roses will make the room feel meaningfully brighter than Real Red would.
Front Door
Front doors are seen in isolation against the rest of the facade, which makes them a high-stakes surface where even subtle differences matter. Coming Up Roses returns significantly more light to the room — in a smaller or darker space, that difference in perceived brightness is hard to miss.
Color Details
Coming Up Roses vs Real Red Simulated Comparison
5 simulated room previews — drag the slider on each to see Coming Up Roses on one side and Real 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.
More Coming Up Roses comparisons
See how Coming Up Roses stacks up against other well-photographed colors across different brands and tones.
At LRV 83 vs 30, White Dove is decisively the brighter choice.
Ammonite reflects far more light (LRV 69 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
At LRV 30 vs 6, Coming Up Roses is decisively the brighter choice.
Purbeck Stone reflects far more light (LRV 52 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
With LRVs of 30 and 30, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
At LRV 52 vs 30, Mizzle is decisively the brighter choice.
Agreeable Gray reflects far more light (LRV 60 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
At LRV 58 vs 30, Accessible Beige is decisively the brighter choice.
A 3-point LRV gap (30 vs 27) makes Coming Up Roses the marginally brighter of the two.
French Gray reflects far more light (LRV 43 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
Coming Up Roses reflects far more light (LRV 30 vs 4), opening up a space where Naval encloses it.
At LRV 55 vs 30, Tranquil Dawn is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 30 vs 13, Coming Up Roses is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 44 vs 30, Hardwick White is decisively the brighter choice.
Pure White reflects far more light (LRV 84 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
Coming Up Roses reads slightly lighter (LRV 30 vs 21), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 66 vs 30, Balboa Mist is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 74 vs 30, Shoji White is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 83 vs 30, Snowbound is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 30 vs 12, Coming Up Roses is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 68 vs 30, Skimming Stone is decisively the brighter choice.
Dix Blue reads slightly lighter (LRV 41 vs 30), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Calamine reflects far more light (LRV 68 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.
Coming Up Roses reads slightly lighter (LRV 30 vs 25), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
At LRV 30 vs 12, Coming Up Roses is decisively the brighter choice.
At LRV 45 vs 30, Saybrook Sage is decisively the brighter choice.
With LRVs of 31 and 30, the two reflect almost the same amount of light.
Coming Up Roses reflects far more light (LRV 30 vs 7), opening up a space where Pine Needle encloses it.
Coming Up Roses reads slightly lighter (LRV 30 vs 24), a gap that shows most in low-lit rooms.
Guilford Green reflects far more light (LRV 57 vs 30), opening up a space where Coming Up Roses encloses it.