Move over, color drenching; pattern drenching has entered the chat.

Our favorite new trend for adding energy and personality to any room is also a decidedly old one. Finding a favorite print and using it everywhere — walls, ceilings, furniture, we could go on — has been in practice for centuries. Victorian decorators went wild for motifs, but the pattern drenching that’s all the rage today is no Gilded Age throwback.

The modern take on this design idea is all about cultivating coziness and creativity with wallpapers and fabrics that repeat and combine. Exhibit A: This dreamy Philadelphia bedroom, where designer Michelle Gage evoked the character and comfort of a boutique hotel. “We wrapped the ceiling and walls in this fresh floral and mixed it with juxtaposing prints in the bedding and rug,” she explained.

Getting started is as easy as identifying a pattern you already have in your home and doubling down or riffing on it. To learn more about how to layer patterns throughout your space, take a spin through our experts’ well-embellished wonderlands.

Feeling fidgety about turning what could function as an accent wall into a space-enveloping statement? “Commit to bold!” says Lexington, Kentucky-based designer (and pattern-plying phenom) Isabel Ladd, who created this dazzling bedroom. “If this wallpaper only bloomed on one wall, it wouldn’t have had the same jaw-dropping effect as when it envelops the room entirely. Any pattern you LOVE deserves to be repeated.”

She’ll say it again if you’re still skeptical. “If you’re worried about whether you’ll get tired of a bold, busy wallpaper, I encourage you to flip that sentiment and think: ‘What if it brings me so much joy?’”

With that wallpaper as her starting point, Isabel layered in a dozen other patterns, including borders in another floral for the ceiling and baseboards. “I always want the eye to travel from statement piece to statement piece,” she explains. “I never want one or two hero-prints in a room. I want more, more, more ... because too much of a good thing is wonderful.”

If you want to tap into the wallpaper-on-the-ceiling trend, Isabel knows just where to start. "Pattern drenching is so important in a nursery; the thought of a child's brain getting all the visual stimulation and nourishment of these patterns and colors makes my heart sing!” she says. She decided to paint the walls light blue to ground the space, then she chose bold patterns textiles. (Bonus: Those motifs will do an excellent job of disguising thrills and spills over time.) “Since a baby spends so much time in the crib, I figured they'd — more than anyone else — appreciate the pattern on the ceiling, the ‘fifth wall,’” she adds.

Tasked with designing a girl’s bedroom that would feel cozy in her elementary-school years and adapt as she entered her teens, Isabel drenched the room with a medium-scale floral pattern. She used that same pattern to upholster the headboard and create a bed skirt for a polished look. “To shake things up a bit, I incorporated florals of different scales and textures in the bed pillows and lampshade trims, which I contrasted with a gingham chair seat and an antique rug,” she says. “Chartreuse accents spark a jolt in this beloved bedroom.”