Colour drenching has become one of the hottest paint trends in interiors over the last year. Essentially it involves painting the entire space, and the fifth wall (the ceiling) in the same colour.
The result is a deeply cocooning and bold room that works well in smaller spaces, and in making larger rooms feel more intimate.
If you’re looking to give this trend a try, a bathroom is a perfect place to start. It will fast track your way to a spa like experience, and it looks amazing in most colours! Here’s some of our favourite looks that are nailing this trend.
19 Bathroom Colour Drenching Ideas
1.Warm, Modern Neutral
Warm, richer neutrals are on-trend for 2025, and carrying the same colour up and across the ceiling makes a bathroom feel even more inviting and warmer. It’s a more modern approach than adding a bright white to the ceiling, and it particularly works well on sloped ceilings as you don’t make a feature out of the architectural element.
I’ve rounded up some of the best Sherwin Williams colour trends where I have featured some favourite warm neutrals like this for the year ahead if you’re looking for a similar tone.
2. Add Depth With A Deep Green
Few things deliver a gorgeous green tone like Bancha by Farrow and Ball does. Colour drenching with a similar toned green is designed to make a high impact statement.
This colour is perfect for windowless spaces, or North facing bathrooms that want to lean into the darkness. The classic white subway tiles help to balance the intensity of the green.
3. Create A Boho Inspired Space
Boho inspired bathrooms continue to be on the rise, especially for those wanting to create a spa like experience in their bathroom.
This limewash style paint is the perfect type of colour to drench a bathroom, its imperfect nature doesn’t feel flat in the space, and it cocoons the room beautifully.
Do pair with some black accents like lighting and decorative accessories to ground the colour scheme.
4. Extend Colour From Your Tiles
You can totally bring some added visual interest into a colour drenched space too. Use tiles in a near perfect colour match so you can seamlessly extend the colour from your tiles to complete drenching the space.
This creates such a beautifully dynamic, yet cosy space.
5. Colour Drench Half of The Space
You’ll have to feature some kind of tiles throughout a bathroom or in a shower enclosure, but you can still try the colour drenching trend. If you don’t want to tonally match the tiles to the paint, pick a warming , cosy shade to elevate the room.
A pink based shade is perfect for North facing or cooler spaces that don’t receive a lot of light.
6. Charcoal Grey For Definition
If you want to go over to the dark side in your bathroom, do it properly and go all in by colur drenching with it.
A bold statement to make, this colour isn’t for everyone, but it can help to create a cozy, restful retreat.
7. Easy On The Eye With Sage Green
Take inspiration from this gorgeously colour drenched space below. Sage green is one of the easiest colours on the eyes, and it’s perfect for creating a restorative bathroom.
This colour will make you feel at ease as soon as you step inside. Pair with earthy colours, black accents and natural materials for an earthy colour scheme.
8. Elevate With Pink
I bookmarked this bathroom years ago and totally fell in love with the seamless integration of colour.
This is a perfect example of colour drenching using wallpaper. To get this right you need to colour match your wallpaper to the perfect paint colour, this enables you to create that cohesive, tonally perfect space. What’s not to love?
9. Wallpaper Drench
If you’re looking for an equally beautiful alternative to colour drenching, what about a wallpaper drench?
This tonally perfect look totally wraps the room, I personally think if you’re going for this style it naturally works best with a sloped ceiling due to the nature of them.
This looks amazing, but I’m not 100% certain how well this wallpaper holds up directly next to the shower head though with the humidity the room receives…
10. Tonally Match Your Tiles
In case you need any more persuasion on lining up the perfectly matched paint colour with your tiles…
Seriously, we can feel a pink bathroom coming on in our future.
11. Earthy Colour Scheme
Earthy colour schemes are one of the hottest and easiest to achieve schemes in a home. Take note from the below and use a lighter tile to tile the lower half of the wall, then add a dark olive green similar to this to draw the eye up.
It brings a beautiful depth and character to a bathroom. To achieve the perfect earthy colour scheme, incorporate greens, browns, creams, terracotta and light greys.
12. Add Drama With Black
Ever considered an all black bathroom? Us neither. But it delivers serious drama when colour drenched in the bathroom.
This defining shade certainly creates an intensive space and would work well in making an expansive bathroom feel cosier.
13. Drench With Wallpaper & Paint
Colour drenching is a hot trend right now, but so is achieving the look with wallpaper. I personally think it adds more visual interest, as plain colour drenching can feel a little bit flat and monotonous.
The trick really is finding the perfect colour match for the most dominant colour in your wallpaper.
14. Green and Terracotta
This combination of colours will always be the most perfect earthy match in our opinion. Take your tiles from floor to ceiling in a vertical stacked tile play to elevate the eye.
Ditch the traditional white ceiling paint for a bathroom and instead use a tonally relevant green to seal the deal on this colour drenched space.
15. Coastal Drench In Blue
Planning a coastal inspired bathroom? Blue always deserves to be seen in a bathroom. It is one of our favourite colour choices for a sunny South facing bathroom and it will help balance the intensity of the sun on the warmest days.
Take inspo from the below and pair with brass hardware in the space, this instantly adds gorgeous warmth to the blue walls.
16. The Unexpected Red Theory
Whilst red doesn’t top the charts as the most soothing paint colour, there’s something cool about going all in on red in a bathroom for a high impact room.
Whilst colour drenching involves complete saturation, think about the flooring wisely so it breaks up the monotony of the colour. In this case a classic monochromatic tile is a great choice.
The paint used here is Empire Red by Rust-Oleum.
17. Warm, Biscuit Neutral
If you’re tackling a particularly dark north facing room, colour drenching is a great approach that will make a space feel warmer and more intimate.
Lick, Beige02 Soho Farmhouse is used on the walls and ceiling in the bathroom below for a refreshing, spa like influence.
18. Pretty In Pink
Certain shades of pink deliver a really feminine, sweet and dainty feel to a bathroom. When colour drenching involve other woodwork in the room for complete saturation, just like the wall cupboard shown in the bathroom here.
Recreate the look with a similar shade such as Nancy’s Blushes by Farrow and Ball.
19. A Comfortable Green
Green is one of the easiest colours on the eyes, so it makes for an ideal colour to try colour drenching with.
Don’t forget to drench the skirting boards and ceiling in the same shade for a true colour drenched look, and if you don’t like it, you can always paint it back! The paint shade used below is Rust-Oleum, All Green.
