Cherry Cola

Dunn-Edwards describes Cherry Cola as 'a deep reddish brown with burnt sienna undertones' that 'delivers rich color and polished depth while complementing creamy neutrals, dark woods, and burnished metal accents.' It is DEA156 in the brand's Perfect Palette accents, with an LRV of 10, hex #894C3B and RGB 137, 76, 59.

Dunn-Edwards suggests Glamour White DEW348 for trim and Dry Creek DE6122 as an accent. Its own list of similar colors is Cellar Door DEA157, Red Hook DE6091, Spiced Berry DEA149, Hope Chest DEA160, Deep Crimson DEA152 and Red Craft DET423.

Check the code when you buy. Behr sells a different color also called Cherry Cola (S130-7), and it is not this one.

At an LRV of 10, Cherry Cola is a genuinely dark color: it gives back only about a tenth of the light that reaches it. Expect it to read deeper on the wall than on a chip, and deeper again in a room with little daylight.

Dunn-Edwards also publishes its Munsell notation: hue .62YR, value 3.8, chroma 5.5. The hue sits just past the line where red becomes yellow-red, which is why it reads as a red-brown rather than either a true red or a brown. The value of 3.8 out of 10 confirms it is dark, and a chroma of 5.5 means it has real color in it rather than being a muddied neutral.

All eleven rooms on this page are from one office by Julia Chasman Design, photographed by Jenna Peffley. Seeing one room from many angles shows how a single dark color behaves across walls in different light within the same space.

We could not find an independent designer or color-consultant review of Cherry Cola: no published account of how it behaves by exposure or where it disappoints. Everything above comes from Dunn-Edwards' own data and the rooms on this page.

Sample it as large as you can and look at it at night as well as by day. If you have used Cherry Cola and can tell us how it behaved, we would like to hear from you.