Trend Alert: 36x Color-Drenched Rooms
Have you already noticed the latest color trend? Color Drenching is the latest paint trend taking over the interior design world. With color drenching, an entire room is painted in one or more paint colors; just don’t use white.
You may be thinking ‘this sounds rather extreme’, but a color drenched room doesn’t have to be overwhelming or too colorful. You can use any color you want, including muted and light shades like pale pink or muted blue (which is already gaining attraction in the 2025 color of the year picks).
Color drenching is not the same as color blocking or a two-tone wall. With color blocking, you create fun and graphic patterns on your walls for a unique wall feature, and a two-tone wall (as the name suggests) limits itself to the walls. With color drenching, you paint the walls and the ceiling, and when you want to immerse yourself and your room in color completely, you also paint cabinets, fireplaces, and other period features.
Two shades of pink in this London living room. The lighter shade on the ceiling makes the room feel larger and highlights the beautiful period features.
The master bedroom in the same London house shows color drenching in a subtle manner with light pink walls and ceiling that beautifully contrast with the raw brick fireplace.
The Netherlands has one King of Color and that is interior stylist Theo-Bert Pot. It will come as no surprise that his own apartment features several color-drenched rooms, from the living room to the bathroom.
The walls in the sitting room are painted in Flexa’s ‘Full Plum’, and the ceiling is painted in ‘Lush River’ by the same brand.
The bathroom walls and ceiling are painted in ‘Full Plum’ by Flexa which are paired with a graphic black and white floor.
You can also color drench by pairing paint with wallpaper as you can see in this living room designed by Heidi Caillier.
Color drenching with vibrant colors. Pink, blue-green, and pink are combined to create a cheerful, colorful kitchen space.
Golden yellow is a color shade that you don’t often see in a living room, but look how warm and inviting this room in a Victorian terrace house is.
a terracotta pink color drenched hallway in a Portuguese apartment designed by Garcé and Dimofski.
Rich color tones in the smallest room of the house. In this small hallway, everything is painted in a deep reddish-pink shade.
This narrow period hallway is completely painted in Farrow and Ball’s ‘Selvedge’ in their dead flat paint finish.
The Dulux Color Forecast 2024 predicted the color-drenching trend as many of the rooms in this forecast are completely painted in one of their trending colors.
Cohesive and calm is how you can describe this all-green deVOL kitchen.
Don’t shy away from something a little bit unexpected. a neutral-colored Swedish home features a cobalt blue color-drenched hallway.
Dark blue walls and ceiling paired with deep red tiles is a stunning Swedish bathroom.
Moody dark gray walls and ceiling with beautiful period features in a luxurious renovated apartment.
Every room in this wonderful Victorian apartment is color-drenched. Pink, red, green, or blue, the owners love drenching their interior with color.
A two-tone green room by Farrow and Ball’s The Nordic edit. The lighter ceiling color gives a more airy feeling.
another room that color-drenched with wallpaper and paint. House of Hackney ‘Hollyhocks’ wallpaper is paired with dusty pink and green.
This den in a colorful Morongo Valley airbnb is painted in a deep red shade called “Arabian Red” by Dunn-Edwards. For a warm layered look, they paired this red tone with more earthy red shades in the furniture and decor as well as ochre yellow tones.