The Best Areas In Your House To Try The Color Drench Paint Trend

Color drenching: the answer to all your monochromatic interior design dreams. This trend is giving people the tools they need to saturate their homes in their favorite colors and shades. Color drenching can boost your room's tranquillity, bringing a lovely finish while also promoting a sense of calm and tidiness. While monochromatic interior palettes can be tricky to nail, color drenching combines fully painted walls with accessories, furniture, and décor that helps to bring in texture and dimension, overcoming the tricky aspect of making a room feel more 3D when it's all in one color. If you've tried it or have been tempted to, it's still helpful to consider which rooms will benefit from this trend and which might get "lost in the sauce," or in this case, the paint. Not every room may be meant for color drenching, but your bedrooms, smaller hallways, pantry, and even your mudroom or small bathrooms can definitely work with this design, giving you a luxurious and clean finish that will make your spaces feel more chic.

One benefit of color drenching is that it can make a room or area of your home feel bigger. This illusion is due to the continuous color across all the walls and décor, opening up spaces that could otherwise feel smaller due to a lot of differing color palettes. You will paint everything including moldings, skirting, doors, window edging: Covering everything in your paint of choice will open up the space. Here are the best areas in your house to try it.

In the bedroom, using color drenching can help create an air of tidiness and organization thanks to the simplistic backdrop that the monochromatic layout gives. When a lot of items and the surrounding walls feature the same shade, it makes everything more fluid and cohesive. This is why color drenching is great where you sleep and relax, building a comfortable space. Pick a calming shade like blue or green, which are two of the best bedroom colors for a peaceful environment. Or, go moodier to create a "cocoon" that literally wraps you up in it, along with furniture in similar tones in varying materials like wood, stone, and woven fabrics. It's fine if you can't find everything in exactly the same shade, but try to stick to two or three colors within the same palette so they are still close in similarity, and play with different paint finishes, too. High gloss can be good for moldings and trim to add even more dimension.

Your pantry, mudroom, or even a powder room can also benefit from color drenching, especially because they are smaller and less obvious if you're nervous about trying this trend. Mudrooms and bathrooms can also work with darker, bolder, more dramatic color drenching, though it might be ideal for pantries to choose mid to lighter color themes so you can access items without them getting lost in darker shades. When using darker colors, the best paint finish is matte for larger areas. Lastly, if you have a small hallway, color drenching could elevate and stylize this concentrated area, and it's easy to find décor and furnishings to accommodate less square footage.