Exploring the Versatility of Color Drenching Beyond Bold Shades
- Kim Donovan
- May 5
- 3 min read
Color drenching is about fully committing to a paint colour and applying it all over your room - from top to bottom, ceilings and skirting boards too. It can take a long time to decide on the best colour to paint your room. Once you’ve made that decision, embrace it and drench your room in your chosen hue. It shows confidence in your colour scheme and interior styling. This home decor trend has been embraced by interior designers and homeowners alike. Here’s how you can start colour drenching too.
Color drenching a room involves applying one paint colour everywhere. Yes, everywhere. That means ceilings, skirting boards, woodwork, window frames, doors, radiators, picture rails, panelling and coving.
Conventionally in home decor, the woodwork, ceilings and skirting boards would be painted white or left as natural wood. This new interior trend shuns convention for a bolder, all-encompassing approach to colour. It’s a bold, brave design trend that looks sensational.
Unless you’re specifically aiming for a moody parlor room vibe (which is wonderful, too), make sure to allow for plenty of natural light in your color-drenched space. You can do this by choosing a room that's already outfitted with windows and by choosing sheer drapes or curtains that are easy to push off to the side—or no window treatments at all.
Color drenching ushers in a burst of energy, but it's also a winning strategy for making a room feel cohesive. A quick way to further tie everything together is to make your furniture part of the saturated game plan.
Add Texture to Your Walls
Another way to prevent a color drenched room from feeling too flat is to weave in organic, subtle texture via the walls. For example, Wolf suggests limewashing or plastering the color versus using a flat paint. Wall paneling—including beadboard, fluting, board and batten, shiplap, and wainscoting—can also infuse warmth and texture into a space.
When you use one color on the walls and a contrasting one on the ceiling or woodwork, the eye is drawn to the focal point of the join. By using the same colour throughout, you blur the boundaries and blend one into the other seamlessly. Color drenching can make a small space feel more spacious. Using two colors draws the eye to the join, but using a single colour creates the illusion of height and expands the space visually. This is a real bonus with a small room as it opens up the whole space. There may be some unattractive features in your room. Radiators, for example, don’t always look great. By painting them in the same colour as the walls, they fade into the background more.
Soften up a space
In stark contrast to dramatic dark home decor, is color drenching in softer pastel shades. Warm pastel tones promote natural light and can make a room feel bigger. This is enhanced further still by blending walls into ceilings and skirting boards by painting them all in the same color pink has been a hot color trend, adding a friendly atmosphere to any room. But there are many different shades of pastel, from blue to yellow, mauve to green. They add a soft freshness and lighten up the room.
Create a backdrop
Think about which elements of your room you want to stand out. It could be your artwork, some striking furniture or maybe a dramatic headboard in a bedroom.If that’s the thing that you want to pop, make sure the walls and ceilings are the backdrop not the talking point. A more neutral color scheme will allow your focal point to shine.
Blend in storage
We all need shelving and cabinetry to house belongings, but it doesn’t need to be a focal point. Color drenching helps it to fade into the background and appear integrated with the wall.It looks sleek and sophisticated. It can also help your ornaments and accessories to stand out rather than the shelves that they stand on.
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