Embroidered Flower
What Embroidered Flower Actually Looks Like
Embroidered Flower is a medium-deep red that leans toward the rosy, pinkish side of the red spectrum. It reads as a true, saturated red in most light, but the pink warmth in it keeps it from feeling harsh or purely primary. In strong natural daylight it shows its cleaner red character. In dim artificial light or in rooms with little natural light, it deepens considerably and can feel close to a dark berry or wine tone. It is not a brick red, not an orange-red, and not a pure cherry. It sits in its own warm, slightly dusty red territory.
Embroidered Flower Undertones
The RGB values place red as the dominant channel by a wide margin, with blue and green nearly equal and relatively low. That ratio produces a pinkish warmth rather than an orange pull. You will not see yellow or orange sneaking in. In cool north light, the pink quality becomes more apparent and the color can feel almost rose. In warm incandescent or warm-white LED light, the red deepens and the pink recedes, giving a richer, moodier read.
Where Embroidered Flower Works Best
Because Embroidered Flower has a low LRV, it absorbs a lot of light. Use it in spaces where you want drama and enclosure, not openness. Accent walls, dining rooms, powder rooms, and small libraries are natural homes for it. It can work in a bedroom if you want a cocooning feel. Avoid using it as the dominant color in a room that already feels small and dark unless that intimacy is the goal. It pairs well with off-whites, warm creams, and natural wood tones, which keep it from feeling heavy.
Where to put Embroidered Flower
A deep warm red is one of the oldest dining room colors for a reason. It creates intimacy and makes candlelight and warm overhead fixtures glow. Embroidered Flower does this well. Keep the trim a crisp off-white or warm white to give the eye a clean boundary, and use natural wood furniture to balance the saturation.
Small spaces are where a low-LRV color like this earns its keep. A powder room in Embroidered Flower becomes a deliberate jewel box moment. Because the space is used briefly, the intensity works in your favor. Add a simple white trim and a warm-toned mirror frame and the room will feel considered rather than overwhelming.
This is a committed choice for a bedroom and it works best if you want a cocooning, moody atmosphere rather than a bright and airy one. Use warm lighting, keep bedding in neutral creams or soft tans, and make sure the room has enough daytime natural light so it does not feel oppressive during the day.
Dark, saturated colors have long been used in studies and libraries because they create a focused, settled atmosphere. Embroidered Flower works here paired with dark wood shelving and warm brass or bronze hardware. The color will deepen further under typical task lighting, which adds to the effect.
What to Pair With Embroidered Flower
No coordinating colors were specified in our database for CSP-1190, so the following pairings are grounded in how saturated, warm reds generally work in a room.
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Colors that clash with Embroidered Flower
If an adjacent room or a shared open-plan space has cool gray or blue-gray walls, Embroidered Flower can feel jarring at the transition. The warm pink-red and the cool gray pull in opposite directions.
Orange-toned accessories, terracotta tile, or warm amber wood floors with strong orange cast can clash with the pink warmth in this red, producing a busy, unsettled feeling.
A very bright, blue-white trim next to Embroidered Flower will make the red look slightly orange by contrast and will feel stark rather than clean.
Common questions
The LRV is 16.82, which is low. On a scale where 0 is pure black and 100 is pure white, 16.82 means this color absorbs a large amount of light. Rooms painted in it will feel noticeably darker than the same room in a mid-tone or light color. That is a feature if you want drama and enclosure, but it means you need adequate lighting and you should sample it on your actual walls before committing.
Yes, noticeably. In warm incandescent or warm-white LED light, the red deepens and richens and the pinkish quality becomes less obvious. In cooler or natural north light, the pink warmth comes forward and the color reads more as a rosy red. Sample it in your room under the lighting conditions you actually use, both during the day and at night.
For walls in living spaces, an eggshell gives you a slight sheen that adds depth to the color without being reflective enough to show surface flaws. In a powder room or a space you want to feel richer, a satin finish works well. Matte can make very dark, saturated colors feel slightly flat, so it is generally not the first choice here.
Yes. Benjamin Moore lists Embroidered Flower as available for interior use.