Wetting in a whole color has been the point of contact with color for a few years. And although it is trendy trendy, it doesn't work in every room. If you have searched for something else that you can try out that feels just as interesting and design-oriented-Benjamin Moore may have just found the answer: it's called “color capping”.
The popular paint brand described the soon-to-be as part of its AW2025 look books and described it as a brave but sophisticated view of clay pallets. “The color encryption includes a room in a tonal laundry that gradually deepens the further and includes the often overlooked fifth wall (ceiling) in the design,” explains Helen Shaw, the color attempts by the brand, Helen Shaw.
In contrast to color wets, in which a single color is used over all surfaces, color closures with several tones from the same color family plays to achieve a layered, polished look. The result is a defined ombré-like effect that gives the room depth, plays with proportional and above all color.
So how can you “color” a room for the caps?
Although the colors in this living room are quite brave, the gradient enables the contrast to feel smoother.
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How exactly does the color lid work? Usually you would like to select three colors of a single color with the same or similar undertones that vary. For example, as shown in the above room, you can select a light thaw, a warm terracotta and a bold red.
From there you want to “paint the ceiling in the deepest color, the curve in a medium tone and the walls in a lighter tone,” explains Helen Shaw. “This creates a subtle feeling of cohesion and elegance.”
Leave this guide in which you start the colors and stop the colors to emphasize the design. Otherwise you can stop with one color shortly before the ceiling and save the third for the painted blanket.
And just because we talk about color does not mean that this color trend cannot be neutral. “This is a finish that can be quiet, even in a palette of neutral, in which a non -white wall color is covered in the same tone with a somewhat saturated color and gently draws attention to the ceiling as an integral part of the decor,” says Helen.
Helen Shaw is Color Expert and International Marketing Director at Paint Brand Benjamin Moore. Helen and her husband Craig are the founders of Shaw Paints, who were acquired by Benjamin Moore in 2020.
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A neutral color scheme is with a color lid
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Just like a watery closing capping, a clever way is how a room envelops. It works beautifully in living rooms and bedrooms because it improves a feeling of intimacy and comfort.
“Due to the color in a slightly deeper tone on the ceiling, the room transports and inviting and inviting and perfect for relaxation,” says Helen. This approach also combines the design to ensure that the ceiling feels more of a deliberate element than a subsequent thought, and introduces a hint of subtle drama that increases the space.
Especially in rooms with high ceilings, painting over the image rail and around the molded part in a somewhat deeper shadow draws the eye up and celebrates the size of the room.
In addition, this color technology can play with proportions and can be used to make the ceilings look higher. “If you extend the wall color in a somewhat darker color to the ceiling, a seamless, enveloping effect, which not only gives flat surfaces a feeling of the dimension, can also make the eye to make the space larger – the upper half of the walls mingles seamlessly into the ceiling and lets it appear further away,” adds Helen.
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The color cap also works with only two colors where it feels more subtle. But the effect is soothing and is still more important than a full drive.
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Sometimes possession of a time or a historical home can feel an obstacle to trying more modern trends. But that shouldn't be the case.
In fact, “the color closure in frequent houses can carefully improve the original architectural features,” says Helen. This technology illuminates complicated cornices and decorative plaster work, so that it stands out as part of the overall cheman and is not lost against a white canvas.
In contemporary environments, color closures can be highly effective in order to give depth and interest through color. Instead of relying on the shape to guide your course, you can use experimental color techniques such as hand -painted cladding and play around with perspective.
Regardless of the square of the square you try, you color, “follow through soft devices and window treatments to achieve a completely coherent look,” notes Helen.
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The stripes and other colors mix harmoniously with the color cap technology for a unique rotation of the trend.
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As with all trends, there will be circumstances under which it simply does not quite work. When it comes to color closures, Helen says that it is best to avoid the use of conflict colors or strong contrasts that have no harmony.
“The transition between wall and deck tones should feel deliberately and coherent, not by chance or not unanimously,” she says. “Decide on tones in the same color family or colors that naturally complement each other on the color wheel to ensure that the appearance feels balanced and taken into account.”
Color offers a perfect opportunity to play with your interior, and a simple refreshment can be enough to completely change the feeling of your space. Before you pick up your brush, however, be sure to scrub on the colors that warn designers who warn the fastest in 2025.