a flat tile of muted warm rose red paint

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Carmen Light

2026 Paint PaintSAP1025-74

Carmen Light is a softly muted rose red with a warm, earthy cast. In Sanderson’s 2026 Paint range, it brings colour without becoming brash.

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About this colour

This shade sits between old rose and terracotta red, with enough brown in it to stop it reading pink. On a wall it feels warm and settled, and the #A7565D value gives it a medium depth that absorbs more light than it reflects. In a north-facing room it can lean slightly quieter and more muted, showing its earthy side. In south light it becomes richer and more rounded, with the red tone coming forward. Active Emulsion and Waterbased Eggshell both suit it well, whether you want it on walls or on painted woodwork.

How to use it

Carmen Light works well in a sitting room, dining room, or on joinery where a warmer red is wanted without harshness. It sits comfortably beside natural oak, walnut, cream upholstery, and linen in oat or stone tones.

A warm, muted rose red that brings depth to a wall without feeling sharp.

Sanderson 2026 Paint Paint

Specification

Brand: Sanderson
Colour: #A7565D
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

Carmen 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.