Colour
Burgundy wall art, the red you can actually live with.
Bright red is difficult in a room. Burgundy is not, and the difference is almost entirely about how dark it is.
The shades on this page, with their hex values — useful if you are matching paint or searching elsewhere.
Why the dark version works
Saturated red demands attention and keeps demanding it. Take the same hue and drop the lightness and it stops shouting and starts behaving like a dark neutral — closer in function to navy or charcoal than to red. That is why burgundy can be the main colour in a room and bright red almost never can.
What it sits beside
- Warm timber and brass. The natural pairing; burgundy has enough brown in it to belong with both.
- Cream and bone rather than white. Against a cold white, burgundy can look slightly purple.
- Forest green. Both are deep and desaturated, and together they read as considered rather than festive — as long as neither is bright.
- Pink, carefully. A dusty rose in the same piece gives burgundy somewhere to go and stops it reading as heavy.
How much
One piece. Burgundy is dark and saturated enough that a second one in the same room starts to feel like a decision you have to justify. If you want more of it, put it in something soft — a cushion, a throw — where it can be removed.
Prints in this colour
From the Artsby collection, ranked by how close each palette sits to the shades above. Printed in Australia, delivery included.
Or match it to your actual room
Photograph the wall and the matcher reads the real colours out of it — then shows you prints in those, and lets you hang one on your own wall before you buy.