Sometimes you know a trend won’t stick around the moment it arrives. Like the Pet Rock, the Macarena, or those plastic furniture covers from way back when. But, every once in a while, a trend comes along and you know right away it’s here to stay. A trend like color drenching.
Color drenching, as the name suggests, involves “drenching” a room in a single, particular color. Floor, ceiling, furniture, the works. The room itself becomes an immersive experience of whatever that hue evokes — calm, drama, uplift, the possibilities are endless.
Color Me Curious: Why Color Drenching Your Home Is Suddenly A Thing
Of course, there’s no one sure answer. But what is certain is that, in today’s world, people need more of whatever feeds and restores them when they get home. Whether that’s more connection, coziness, energy, escape, or what have you. Color drenching is a solution that’s easy to pull off (true story), phenomenally impactful, and surprisingly luxurious.
It can even make large rooms feel cozy and small rooms feel more expansive. It sounds like I’m selling something on QVC. All I’m really selling is that today’s topic, introducing you to the joys of color drenching and how to bring all its benefits into your favorite room(s), is well worth the read.
In The Mood: Colors To Drench Your Space In Magic And Connection
Speaking of trends, in recent years weighted blankets have become a thing. A moment spent swaddled beneath one is all it takes to understand why. Imagine if an entire room could feel like that. It can.
That’s what a room color drenched in a rich, saturated hue like an inky navy blue, forest green, or aubergine purple feels like. There’s a magic in the depth of such tones, adding intimacy, allure, and drama. Like having a speakeasy that’s all your own.
Bring It Home:
- Walls & Ceiling: All-in. The impact of a single deep, sophisticated shade on walls, moldings, ceiling, everything, eliminates the visual harshness of contrast and creates a kind of limitless feeling.
- Upholstery Fabrics: Irresistibly touchable fabrics are what’s for us here. Like a deep green velvet, eclipse blue velvet, or eggplant purple chenille making pieces like sofas and armchairs decidedly beckon while also beautifully blending with a room drenched in the same color family.
- Lighting: Shhh. Go with lights that gently whisper, like lamps, sconces, and others adding soothing, warm light to the overall embrace the space offers.
- Pro tip: Turn up the textures. Less contrast smooths out the energy of the space, while adding textures like an ottoman in Prussian blue leather or navy faux leather, an interesting wool area rug, throw blankets and more keep it from feeling flat. And feel free to stray a bit from the single color with these accents.
The Perfect Vibe For: Dining rooms, music rooms, movie rooms, and more. Spaces for deep conversations, whiling away the hours, thinking big thoughts, or letting them all go.
Spice It Up: Colors That Drench Your Kitchen With Energy And Light
The kitchen is part heart of the home and part Grand Central Station. Why not use color to get the heart pumping? Like a kitchen color drenched in a chartreuse yellow, soft spicy orange, or Encore blue, feeding you energy every day. (Encore is one of the colors of the year, by the way.)
Bring It Home:
- Walls, Ceilings, & Cabinets: This time, going all-in includes the cabinets and comes offering a sleek, energizing feel, like an extra cup of coffee in the morning.
- Upholstery Fabrics: Durability is key in the kitchen, so stick with performance fabrics. In a kitchen color drenched in chartreuse, outfit chairs and barstools with an aquarium blue geometric pattern performance jacquard, or a coral peach abstract pattern in a blue kitchen, or a lime green floral in a soft but spicy orange space. The contrast is your friend here, adding pop and even more energy to a space otherwise drenched in a single shade.
- Backsplash & Accessories: Stick with the color-drenching hue, but go with a different finish or texture. Like matte-finished cabinets and a high-gloss backsplash, or vice versa.
- Pro Tip: Ease into the look at first, if you’d like. Perhaps, just the walls and furniture. Then add in the lower cabinets and work your way up from there.
The Perfect Vibe For: The absolute best morning espresso ritual, spontaneous dance parties, and making the kitchen feel like the life of the party on pretty much any day ending in “y.”
Sweet Dreams: Color Drenching Your Bedroom In Comfort And Calm
If there’s one room you really want to feel like an oasis from it all, it’s your bedroom. Much like the deep color room earlier, color drenching serves your bedroom by enveloping the space in soothing vibes. This time of the softer variety. Think of “misty” sage green, raincloud blue (another color of the year), or soft lavender. All conspire to help you start drifting off to dreamland even before your head hits the pillow.
Bring it home:
- Walls & Ceiling: This time, use a soft, calming hue. Like a warm, pale pastel teal in a matte finish helping walls, ceilings, and trim blend into a soft landing.
- Upholstery Fabrics: Have we mentioned soft? Because soft is the rule of thumb for bedroom fabrics, like a headboard and upholstered bench in seaglass teal eco-friendly velvet.
- Drapes & Bedding: You can gently depart from the single hue and play with variations within the color family here. Like linens and throw pillows in eggshell beige linen, a teal and beige abstract teardrop pattern, and/or a beige and taupe floral pattern — all Crypton strong, btw. Finish the calming look with luxurious and airy teal and white stripe sheer curtains.
- Pro Tip: Natural fibers and blends are best for that relaxing retreat tranquility you’d like in a bedroom. As are natural elements in your room’s other decor.
The Perfect Vibe For: Cultivating the snuggliest, coziest, let’s-order-room-service-and-stay-here-all-day feels that help you get the most out of your precious time to rest.
Color My World: Your Home’s Style Is Perfect For Color Drenching
What kind of style does color drenching work in, you ask? Everyone’s. Because color drenching can be done with whatever tone and hues cultivate the vibe you’re after, so it’s fully at home in any design style. And you don’t need a huge budget. It’s just about being intentional — and a bit bold and playful.
Start with a single room. Pick your vibe, your color, and fabrics that fit the look, and then leap. All-in yields the greatest return — and oh what a return it can be. We’ll bet, that once you feel the difference in one room, you’ll be itching to do another.
Oh! And the best thing about the painting part? No pesky taping. (Or at least a whole lot less.) After all, the idea is to get it everywhere. Hooray! And, as ever, here at the largest online furniture upholstery fabric store, we’re ready to help drench your space in the right fabrics for your vision. Reach out today.