a flat tile of deep charcoal black paint

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Burn Black Light

2026 Paint PaintSAP1019-44

Burn Black Light is Sanderson’s softened charcoal black in the 2026 Paint range. It sits close to black, with just enough grey in it to feel settled rather than stark.

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About this colour

This #3B3B3D shade reads as a cool, low-light charcoal with a muted blue-grey edge, so it absorbs most of the light and keeps a room feeling enclosed and grounded. In north-facing light it can turn slightly deeper and more shadowed, emphasising its cool side, while in south-facing rooms it lifts a little and shows a gentler grey note. On walls it gives a firm, tailored backdrop in Active Emulsion, and in Waterbased Eggshell it works well on joinery where you want the same dark tone with a clean painted finish. It sits neatly beside pale oak, walnut, chalk white, putty, ink blue and tobacco-toned upholstery, where the contrast feels crisp rather than harsh.

How to use it

Use it in a study, hallway or sitting room where you want depth on the walls or a darker note on trim. It pairs especially well with pale natural woodwork, deep leather, brushed brass and upholstery in oatmeal, stone, navy or moss tones.

On a wall, Burn Black Light reads as a cool, deep charcoal that gives a room weight without looking fully black.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #3B3B3D
Colour family: 2026 Paint
Finish: Active Emulsion, Waterbased Eggshell
Product type: Paint

Specification as published by Sanderson. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Order it with the cloth

A pot comes off the same order as the fabric, so the wall and the chair in front of it are chosen together. The making is ours: cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage.

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Pairs well with

Burn Black Light is a wall colour, so these are the cloths that sit against it: one of them on the curtains, the paint behind. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.