What is Double Drenching?
Double drenching is using two or more related colors to drenched the entire room, creating a layered, multidimensional color scheme. This strategy is all about boldness yet creating harmony. While color drenching allows for covering every surface in one color, double drenching permits you to play with variations in depth, contrasts, and tonal artistry.
“Double drenching is about using color to enhance architectural features, whether modern or period,” says Ruth Mottershead, creative director at Little Greene. “It’s a great way to create drama, highlight details and breathe new life into a space with unexpected yet thoughtful color combinations.”
How Do You Execute Double Drenching?
While this concept calls for boldness, it requires a few principles to actually work with double drenching in your space. The foremost of these is to choose colors that harmonize—colors that sit adjacent to each other on the color wheel, such as shades of blue or soft greens and yellows. You want to create interest without causing the room to seem overbearing. Navy on the walls could deepen the appeal alongside an even deeper indigo on the ceiling and a cobalt blue trim that brightness provides contrast and interest to create a sophisticated environment.
Mottershead further suggests that neutrals are more balanced if they are deep colors paired with complementary ones—these could be taupes or soft grays. All the architectural elements present including moldings, window frames, and even the light fittings can provide an opportunity for some drenching in subtle variations that would enhance the overall experience of the room without compromising its calm elegance.
Examples in Action: Double Drenching
A Calm Bedroom Sanctuary:
Designed by Paolo Castellarin, this master bedroom in a Milanese home indulges in the technique of double drenching. The walls are soaked in the warm, neutral tones of the RAL Pale Brown, ceiling done in a contrasting earthy tone of the RAL Green Beige. The combination of this rich, soft color palette produced an effect that was soothing and calming, character-perfect for a place of rest.
Living Room Bold and Refined:
This apartment designed in 1970s by Bachman Clem uses Benjamin Moore’s Mystical Blue and Brilliant Blue for the ultimate showcase of double drenching. For the walls, calming Mystical Blue, for trim and detailing bright Brilliant Blue. The rich color contrast defines and holds the space, highlights the space’s mid-century design-with comfort, though, still elegance.
A Creative Home Office
Walls could be drenched in a soft, warm beige, while a ceiling is painted a darker contrasting terracotta. The richness of the terracotta will provide that cozy inviting feeling, with the beige walls keeping that light airy feel. Keeps things light for energizing while creating an inviting workspace-not too much heaviness with tones.
Living Room Bold and Refined:
This apartment designed in 1970s by Bachman Clem uses Benjamin Moore’s Mystical Blue and Brilliant Blue for the ultimate showcase of double drenching. For the walls, calming Mystical Blue, for trim and detailing bright Brilliant Blue. The rich color contrast defines and holds the space, highlights the space’s mid-century design-with comfort, though, still elegance.
Selecting Colors for Double Drenching
The idea of double drenching really sits in the realm of complementary or analogous instead of clashing colors. Here are some tips on how to choose colors:
These are colors near next other in the color wheel – blues, greens, and teals – when you bring those together; you get a very harmonizing, calm feeling.
Contrasting ones. For those who wanted more fun in that space, just try putting contrasting colors like deep purple with a bright mustard yellow for high energy and a dynamic feel.
Neutrals + Brawny Colors: For grounding, combine a brawny color with neutrals such as grays, whites, or beiges. This will dimensionize, but still keep the area balanced.
Why the Trend Is Here to Stay
Double drenching is now just one part of a larger whole: continued innovations in the use of deep, rich color in interiors. As homeowners go more adventurous with color, they are more willing to embrace these sophisticated techniques to create immersive environments that personalize space. Whether working to renovate an existing room or conceive an entirely new one, double drenching is a creative way to express personality in color.
You can expect the trend to last further into the years. It’s a design statement that doesn’t just signify an elevation of your space but also rethinks what you do with color. So are you great to join this art of double drenching? Go within the colorful world.