Embrace Bold Decor Choices With the Colour Drenching Interior Trend

Whether subtly incorporated or fully embraced, colour drenching brings depth, elegance, and a striking final look. By enveloping a room in a single colour, it creates a chic, curated space that feels both timeless and contemporary. Find out our favourite ways to embrace this bold and beautiful trend. 

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What is Colour Drenching?

Colour drenching is the art of enveloping a room in a single shade, covering walls, ceilings, skirting boards, floors, doors, windows, and even radiators for a bold, cohesive look. While the trend is having a major moment, it has appeared throughout many iconic interior design movements, proving its timeless style. The beauty of colour drenching lies in its versatility – you don’t have to go all in if you don’t want to. Whether you choose to paint just the walls and ceiling or extend it to furniture and accents, the result is always a chic, immersive space with depth, character, and a strong sense of style. 

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Why You Should Embrace the Colour Drenching Trend 

Colour drenching is a simple yet powerful way to create a chic, high-impact space with minimal effort. By wrapping a room in a single shade, it instantly feels cohesive and thoughtfully styled, without the need for endless decor decisions. One of its biggest benefits is how it softens a room – by eliminating sharp contrasts at corners and edges, the eye glides seamlessly around the space. This clever trick can actually make a space feel bigger, even with darker hues, as there are no harsh lines to break up the flow. It’s an effortless way to achieve a polished, design-led interior.

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The Most Important Step – Choosing Your Colour Scheme 

The most important first step in colour drenching is choosing your colours. Don’t be afraid to go bold – dark shades are often avoided for fear of making a space feel smaller, but with colour drenching, they can actually have the opposite effect. By minimising contrast at edges and corners, even deep hues can create a seamless, expansive feel.

When styling colours, forget rigid design rules. Colour is all about context – how shades interact with each other and the overall space. You can start with a colour you love and build from there, or take inspiration from decor pieces you love and pull a drenchable shade from them. Get creative and infuse your unique personality into the room. 

Once you’ve chosen your base, there are two key ways to style it. You can lean into a monochromatic look or embrace contrast. Both approaches create a beautifully cohesive and chic space. 

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Monochromatic 

A monochromatic take on colour drenching adds depth and sophistication by layering different shades of the same colour. Instead of using just one exact tone, incorporate lighter and darker variations across your decor – think soft sage walls with deep forest green furniture, or a warm terracotta scheme with peachy accents. This approach keeps the space visually interesting while maintaining the seamless, cocooning effect that makes colour drenching so effortlessly stylish. 

To make this approach simple, you can search all of our rugs by colour to easily explore collections in your chosen palette. 

Create Contrast 

Creating contrast within a colour-drenched space adds depth and personality. While your walls, ceiling, and woodwork may be bathed in one shade, you can introduce visual intrigue through the furnishings. A bold, patterned rug, a statement sofa in a complementary colour, or striking curtains can break up the uniformity while still feeling intentional. Layering different textures and prints – like a patterned bedspread against deep-toned walls – keeps the space dynamic, ensuring your colour-drenched scheme feels curated rather than one-dimensional.

Find your perfect contrasting piece in our collections - explore floral rugs, striped rugs, geometric rugs, and more to elevate your colour drenched room.

Featuring our Morris & Co Acanthus Mole Rug. 

Don’t Hold Back – Drench It All! 

How far you take colour drenching is entirely up to you – perhaps you start with just the walls and skirting for a subtle effect. But in our opinion, this trend is best fully embraced. Why not go all in and drench the entire space from top to toe? Extending the colour to the ceiling, doors, floors, and more creates a bold, immersive look that feels effortlessly stylish. 

Consider how you treat architectural details – will you drench them or create contrast? Fireplaces, mouldings, shelves, and radiators can either blend seamlessly or stand out as bold, eye-catching features. 

We say: if you’re going for it, go all the way! But the choice is yours. 

Featuring our Wonderland Floral Amber Lapis Rug. 

Find the Perfect Rug to Compliment Your Colour Drenched Room 

Whether you’re looking for the perfect shade to match your monochromatic room or a striking piece to create chic contrast, our collection has the rug for you. Get inspired by our beautiful selection of rugs and enjoy free UK delivery when you order now.