Forget colour drenching – colour capping is the paint trend small kitchens have been waiting for

Benjamin Moore blue kitchen walls colour capping.

It's a fact well known that colour and paint has the potential to completely transform how a room looks and feels, but this is a sentiment usually reserved for rooms other than the kitchen. However, paint can be so powerful in small kitchens in particular, and the new trend of colour capping is our favourite technique yet.

Colour drenching became a big trend in 2023 and has continued to be a clever way of enhancing the sense of space in a kitchen by taking the same paint shade onto ceilings, doors and skirting boards. Colour capping is a fresh take on this trend where you graduate the colour up to the ceiling, using tonal shades to differentiate the top part of the wall.