This Trend Will Be the New Color Drenching This Year, According to Designers
Color drenching, where you saturate every surface in a room in one color, took the home design world by storm two years ago. And now, the future is looking even more colorful with a newer, bolder, and more dramatic decorating move: double drenching. Here’s everything you need to know about double drenching, including tips from the pros on how to nail the look in your home.
What is Double Drenching?
Coined by UK-based paint brand Little Greene, double drenching is all about painting every available surface in a room in two or more related hues. In a double-drenched room, the paint colors are within the same family, but have different undertones (think deep blue and forest green). The purpose of double drenching is, quite literally, to drench a space with color from floor to ceiling, leaving no room for white.
Designers are gravitating to this trend because of how striking and accessible it is for anyone who loves color. “I think this is a beautiful and stylish trend because of the variability of it, and how easily it can be achieved by designers and homeowners alike, creating an impactful look with paint alone,” says Paige Garland, founder and principal of Paige Garland Interiors.
How to Use Double Drenching
Choosing two or three colors for a room can feel daunting, but with double drenching, there’s one simple rule that makes it easy: Choose colors that sit next to each other on a color wheel, otherwise known as analogous colors.
Take the space pictured above, for example. “For this dining room design, we used the double drenching trend by working with an analogous color palette of purples and reds for a striking and memorable look,” says Garland, who designed the room. Luckily, most paint color cards group their hues in a similar way, making color choices even easier.
Sarah Ivory, principal and founder of Sarah Ivory Design, suggests exercising a little bit of restraint when experimenting with double drenching. “It’s best to stick to two or three colors at most as anything more can create chaos instead of cohesion, which is exactly the opposite of what you want.”
Ivory adds, “This method can also be used between different applications such as stone and wall paint or drapes and wallpaper, as I did in the blue-green dining room [pictured above]. It doesn’t just apply to paint.”
Double Drenching with Monochromes
You don’t have to love bright colors to embrace the double drenching trend. With so many possible color schemes, double drenching works equally well when pairing monochromatic tones with different undertones.
Taking Benjamin Moore paints as an example, Jessamy Tsoris, owner and principal designer of Color Zen Interiors, suggests pairings like Frosted Berry (CC-8) with Muskoka Dusk (CC-6) or Great Barrington Green (HC-122) with Kennebunkport Green (HC-123). These combinations will result in a successful pairing that will make a room feel professionally pulled together, says Tsoris.
Double drenching can be dark and moody, light and bright, or a combination of the two, depending on your personal flair and the colors that speak to you. It’s an impactful way to inject color into any room with confidence. With this new trend, 2025 is going to look very bright and colorful!
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