Five Interior Design Trends for 2025
Spring is the perfect time to refresh your home and bring it up-to-date.
If you’re redecorating this year and want your rooms to look as current as possible, consider incorporating some of these design elements.
Here are five trends that designers are featuring in our projects this year.
1. High-lacquer walls and cabinets
Lacquered walls add a lot of drama to a room. Dark colors, especially, make the room feel moody and mysterious. Greens and blues seem to be the most popular paint colors for lacquered walls right now. If you want something more subtle, choose a soft pastel or off-white instead.
2. Wallpapered ceilings
Wallpaper has been making a comeback for several years now, and the trend will continue in 2025. Since most homeowners ignore their ceiling, a wallpapered ceiling is very memorable. If you’re only wallpapering your ceiling, paint the rest of your walls in a solid, complementary color.
3. Textured rugs
In my projects, I like to use sisal rugs or rugs made of wool carpet that have been cut to size. Rugs with tufted details, high-pile rugs, or rugs with raised patterns are all great ways to add more texture to the room. Subdued, neutral colors like cream, gray, and beige work especially well on textured rugs.
4. Wide-plank wood floors
Most new houses these days have wood floors with at least 5-inch wood planks, instead of narrow strips of wood. In a big house, you might see a herringbone pattern wood floor used in a study or a dining room for variety. As far as wood color goes, I’m starting to see people move away from gray and towards warmer browns or blonds.
5. An element of surprise
Adding an element of surprise to a room introduces tension and keeps your space from being too matchy-matchy. Some people will create surprise by installing an unusual light fixture or mixing in contemporary art and lamps with traditional furnishings. Your hobbies and collections can be a source of inspiration here, especially art pieces collected from your travels.
Although I stay abreast of the latest trends, I always try to design homes for my clients that are timeless enough to look beautiful for decades. You should only follow a trend if it’s something you genuinely enjoy. When you design a home personalized to you, you’ll love it for a long time, no matter how design trends change.
Margaret Chambers, a registered interior designer (RID) and American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) member, leads Chambers Interiors and Associates. Her colleague Caitlin Crowley helped edit this column. Visit chambersinteriors.com/blog for more design advice.
