Sources, sources, sources. We have checked in with all of our favorite outlets, design salons, and did a deep dive of High Point Market style spotter reports to bring you our annual run-down of what savvy, interior-minded consumers may wish to consider when feathering their nests this year.
Photo courtesy of Varaluz (left); Photo courtesy of Modshop (top right)
Intense, Rich Color
We can expect to see aspects of dusty, earthy tonal palettes to continue to be popular in 2025, but this year also ushers in an alternative palette of hues that are dark, jeweled, and intense. From a deep, russet burgundy, to a bright mustard yellow and emerald green, everything from paint and fabric colors to statement furnishings are hoping to have a place in your home this year.
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Resurgence of the Art Deco Aesthetic
While we can regularly expect to find Art Deco influences in furnishings and in certain finishes like lacquer, in sophisticated room schemes and featured in showrooms like those at High Point Market, this year experts say we can also expect to see this influence in smaller and less expected ways such as wall coverings.
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Drapery as an Art Form
It’s not just about privacy anymore, as drapery goes dramatic in 2025. And again, walls figure significantly into this scenario, as well. Adding fabric to walls and ceilings is no longer being seen just as a creative way to buffer sound, it is playing into those comforting themes that we have been coveting in design for the last five years or so. Drapery is also being used in new places like bathrooms, and ranges from thick and weighty velvet to billowy gossamer panels in variations of white.
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Wall Coverings are Doing Double-Duty
The overall popularity of wall coverings will continue and make even bolder strides in the home for those who dare to go there. And what the interior design industry describes as the fifth wall, the ceiling, is where they’re going; creating yet another opportunity for consumers to stretch what they think is possible in interior design.
Velvet is Having a Moment
Tied in again to that desire for comfort and surroundings that soothe and soften, velvet can be found dressing everything from headboards to table coverings and whole pieces of furniture—and the rich, jeweled tones are making the use of this material an opulent statement, as well.
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Brown Furniture is Back
With the right sensibility and a skilled eye, the beauty that is brown is slowly coming back into our lives. Was it the appointment of Mocha Mousse as Color of the Year by Pantone, or was it something more like a slow burn into the creative side of our brains that eased us back into the color of earth at its most pure? At the end of the day, whatever the cause, the re-entry of brown furnishings and overall schemes is gaining, for lack of a better word, ground, and is being seen more and more in the feeds design influencers worldwide. In these circles, brown is anything but boring, rather it is welcoming and warming in a way this is familiar and a tad nostalgic even.
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Mixed Metals Mingling with Mixed Woods
This was bound to happen as we have grown very fond of the layering aspect in design—and taking things to the next level has clearly become the norm. This approach to interiors is also less contrived and cookie cutter, as it allows for the authenticity of what you like, as opposed to what is supposed to be, to shine through.
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Use of Texture on Walls
Whether it’s applying it at the source during a build or remodel, employing the grass cloth wallpaper of the moment, or even taking an upholstered approach, such as adding leather, suede or velvet to a wall, consumers in 2025 will continue to work with the three-dimensional wall treatments that work best for them.
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Patterns Galore!
While we often don’t lean into the design sensibilities rooted in British interiors, high-level pattern mixing is enjoying some time in the design limelight and consumers across generations are using multiple patterns and are having fun while doing so.
Photo courtesy of Kalco Lighting (left); Photo courtesy of Schonbeck (top right); Photo courtesy of Arhaus.com (bottom right)
Light Fixtures as an Art Form
Light fixtures have been amping up their game for some time now and designers of such things have really let imaginations take flight. Beyond statement pieces, intentionally artful lighting allows for imaginings and conversations, not just functional incandescence.
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Bathrooms as Immersive Experiences
Beyond the spa bath concept lies an escape for the body, soul—and mind, taking the user to perhaps another time or world that is only limited by the imagination. Adding comfort in the form of texture and an element of the unexpected provides for the most fundamental of connections, that connection with the self.
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Home Offices That Look Less Officey & More Homey
Breaking free of expectations is a hallmark of exceptional design and with the home office concept we have been given the unique opportunity through technology and circumstance to create the optimal environment in which we feel inspired and at ease in a way that we could not in the corner office. To that end, in 2025 we will continue to figure out what works best for us with the addition of more comfortable touches playing a large role.
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Fluted Tile
Adding tile to your home is like adding your accessories to a fine ensemble. It is the finishing touch and the calling card of personal style and taste. Choosing tile can be a time-consuming experience because of the sheer volume of choices. 2025, however, is the year where fluted tile is set to take center stage. Again, playing up three-dimensional themes, fluted tile adds a noticeable, interesting layer of texture without being jarring.
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Enhanced Use of Earth Tones
This trend started out small but has grown over the better part of a decade or more in interior design to become the standard when it comes to contemporary palettes of the era. As we are still in comfort mode, these once subdued hues will get a bit richer for 2025 with deep rusts and mossy greens taking center stage.
What is Flame Stitch?
If you haven’t already been introduced to this lively pattern while scrolling on Houzz, you soon will. Flame stitch is a type of embroidery first popularized in 17th century Florence, predominantly seen as the upholstered element to chairs of the time. Today, we are seeing this design emerge as the more energetic cousin pattern to chevron with its contemporary uses resulting in statement-making furnishings and accessory pieces.
