The Biggest Interior Design Trends for 2025
They say that fortune favors the bold, and this year’s interior design trends are taking note. Presentations at Milan Design Week 2025 and Paris’s PAD 2025 show that color, pattern, and experimental form are being welcomed with open arms today. While maximalism is still an important look in the contemporary home, quiet luxury’s influence has crept into 2025 interior designs. Comfort, relaxation, and monochromatic spaces are in the zeitgeist.
However, neutrals be gone: In the cutting-edge visions shared by designers color is a champion, often inspired by the great outdoors. Interior designers say their clients are seeking spaces that reflect not only their unique vision of a sanctuary, but their distinct personalities, and they are willing to take design risks with materials, textures, and furnishings to achieve it.
“What makes a space feel special today is the mix: a classic paired with a sculptural piece by a living artist, something handmade, or even a found object with a story behind it,” said Los Angeles–based designer Anne Dereaux. “That’s where the soul comes in.” The result is rooms that set a mood—whether starting the party or turning it down—through designs that encourage holistic well-being at home. These six interior design trends are ruling the home in 2025.
Material drenching
Last year, designers and homeowners were all-in on all-over color, or “color-drenching.” When the ceiling, walls, trim, and molding are all painted the same shade, the color’s effect is even more significant. 2025 interiors reflect a natural, but more textural, evolution of this trend: material drenching. The term, first coined by Los Angeles–based designer Jake Arnold, describes the decorating an entire room with one material, whether wood, stone, plaster, fabric, or something else that is more tactile than paint. Not only does material drenching achieve an elevated look, but it also gives a room more dimension and enhances its mood-boosting qualities.
Like many trends, this one reflects interior design history, recalling paneled, papered, or plaster-clad spaces in luxe homes from the 1920s. This year’s material renditions skew lighter and brighter overall and are sometimes mixed with shinier surfaces to avoid making spaces feel smaller than their true square footage. “Textured walls have been a staple for a while now, and I don’t think they’re going anywhere,” explained Dereaux. “But lately, I’ve also been enjoying the use of heightened reflective materials—high-gloss paints, clever mirror placement—elements that add energy and play with perception.” More experimental homeowners may even be open to a fully mirror-drenched room: In those, strategically smoked mirror sections can help set the scene.
Evocative and enveloping spaces
Across the board, interior designers are prioritizing comfort and well-being in the home this year. Designers are responding to a near-universal craving for dramatically enveloping spaces, taking last year’s maximalism into a moodier realm. Dark wood cabinetry, plush textiles, and multi-layered drapery are prevalent in new projects. In particular, homeowners are becoming more open to the mix of bold color, pattern, and accessories. This trend is inspired by American 20th-century design legends like Sister Parish and Mario Buatta, who transformed the spaces of the country’s who’s who into romantic, whimsical, colorful visions of elegance.
At Milan Design Week this past April, French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon unveiled Villa Héritage, an interior home installation of eight lavish rooms at the Salone del Mobile fairground, bringing together traditional and contemporary design. Each room is defined largely by a rich hue that alludes to its design’s cultural inspiration. Vibrant red and plush velvets in the drawing room evoke theater curtains; while deep blue in the dining room brings to mind the sea, alongside a rich tapestry with chinoiserie references.
Meanwhile Dimoremilano, founded by Milanese design duo Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci, collaborated with luxury fashion brand Loro Piana on “La Prima Notte di Quiete,” an immersive installation of furniture and set design that pulls inspiration from sultry 1970s and ’80s forms and materials. Think dark burl wood, reflective surfaces, and round beds. Centering some of the cinematic drama is a large conversation pit, a throwback design element that’s also making a resurgence as the ultimate cozy cocoon.
Furnishings focused on craft
Since the pandemic, collectors have been increasingly interested in furniture designs with a craft aesthetic. According to Business Research Insights, the global market for arts and crafts—defined as things made with “one’s own hands and skills”—will reach $74.3 billion in 2033, up from $45.3 billion in 2024, a nearly 6% rise. An increasing focus on handmade objects in other industries has encouraged interior design to follow suit.
“Traditional craftsmanship is seeing a significant revival in furniture design, as consumers increasingly value quality, uniqueness, and sustainability,” said designer Laura Lubin, principal of Nashville-based Ellerslie Interiors, in a recent 2025 interior trends survey conducted by The New York Design Center. “Handcrafted pieces, with their attention to detail and timeless appeal, resonate with those seeking furniture that tells a story and stands the test of time,” Lubin continued. “This revival also reflects a broader shift toward supporting artisans and embracing slow design principles.”
At April’s PAD Paris fair, international gallery Maison Intègre was a standout for its display of handcrafted bronze furnishings and textiles. At the emerging design fair Alcova Milano, also this month, Istanbul-based Studio Lugo debuted a collection of stools, tables, and lighting made by hand using traditional Turkish artisan techniques and materials like horsehair, metal, and woven silk.
Furnishings with a handmade feel also tap into another prevailing interior trend: the desire for personalized spaces. “Even larger retailers are incorporating more craft into their offerings, often in turn highlighting new designers’ craftsmanship and bringing it to a larger audience,” explained Kelley Perumbeti, cofounder of San Francisco- and New York–based design studio Office of Tangible Space. The studio took this approach for its hand-upholstered Osvaldo collection of furniture with Kiki Goti’s hand-blown Murano glass vases at Alcova Milano this year. “This shift brings a handmade feel into spaces; it gives them character and a feeling that creates points of connection to not only the piece itself, but the artist or maker too.”
Nature-inspired colors
Following 2024’s trend toward earthy hues, 2025 is seeing the nature-inspired palette expand to greens and blues of all shades. According to the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s 2025 trend reports, 71% of designers prefer a colorful kitchen to the all-white designs, long a staple in the trade. In those rooms, as well as in bathrooms, verdant or azure color schemes are trending this year, the reports reveal. Looking to the future, designers are now seeing clients interested in their use across the home.
“We saw brown and burgundy have a major moment last year, not just in interiors but across fashion…If I had to guess what’s next, I’d say light blue is on the rise,” says Dereaux. “That said, color is deeply personal. It’s about mood, memory, and how someone wants to feel in a space.” Since the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders have ended, more residents are interested in strengthening their houses’ connections to the outdoors. These nature-inspired shades provide an easy way to reference the garden and tap into the calming feelings it brings.
“All of our current project palettes are deeply rooted in the landscape surrounding the homes we’re designing,” said New York City–based designer Kathleen Walsh in The New York Design Center survey, where the majority of her peers predicted that earth tones and neutrals would dominate interiors in 2025. “By connecting inside with what’s outside, we’re often working with a palette of softer hues as a foundation, punctuated with vibrant surprises that provide energy to a space.”
When designers do want to go bold with color, pairing statement hues with natural materials can achieve a sophisticated look.
“All of our current project palettes are deeply rooted in the landscape surrounding the homes we’re designing,” said New York City–based designer Kathleen Walsh in The New York Design Center survey, where the majority of her peers predicted that earth tones and neutrals would dominate interiors in 2025. “By connecting inside with what’s outside, we’re often working with a palette of softer hues as a foundation, punctuated with vibrant surprises that provide energy to a space.”
When designers do want to go bold with color, pairing statement hues with natural materials can achieve a sophisticated look.
Sustainable and durable designs
Beyond the choice of color on their home’s walls, residents are increasingly concerned about encouraging well-being inside the house. This has led to a rise in interest in interiors that employ sustainable, natural, and long-lasting materials in 2025.
“Clients are more aware of the materials being used in their home,” said Perumbeti. “One of our recent clients requested to not use any plastic-based products in the architecture or design, including in light switch plates and electrical covers. Others simply want to select furniture and finishes that are natural and pieces that will last a lifetime.” During Milan Design Week, New York–based design firm Rockwell Group collaborated with cork producer Corticeira Amorim and nonprofit Cork Collection on an ambitious exhibition, “Casa Cork,” dedicated to the interior uses of the renewable material. Centered around a large facsimile of a cork tree made of cork itself, the show displayed seating, tables, wallcoverings, fabric, and more. The whole cork-based arrangement encouraged visitors to sit, touch, and enjoy sustenance from the cork bar. This spotlight on the 100% renewable material felt well-timed, as did other presentations across the city during Design Week. Sustainable furnishings were everywhere, from fabric made of mycelium, to circularly harvested plant root acoustic panels, to lighting made of waste oyster shells.
There’s also a growing awareness that sometimes, the most sustainable building option is doing nothing at all. “Since 2020, clients have become more intentional,” says Dereaux. “With construction costs up over 30%, there’s a shift toward working with what’s already there, finding beauty in the existing conditions instead of starting from scratch.”
Sumptuous textures
What says comfort more than a softness you can feel? Even in quiet luxury-driven interior designs, soft, billowing drapery and plush furniture are trending, marking the beginning of a return to romanticism. While this century’s amorously-inspired rooms utilize less chintz and favor supple, satisfying textures, the appetite for sumptuous spaces is present all the same.
Venetian plaster and Moroccan tadelakt have long been popular in bathrooms. Now, they’re being used in larger spaces throughout the home. Wallpapers that appear textured can also provide a similar feel and mood. In Milan, Canada-headquartered lighting brand Bocci used a watercolor-like wallpaper by Calico Wallpaper above bedroom wainscotting in its Milan apartment-cum-showroom Design Week presentation with Orior and The Future Perfect. In practice, balance is the best way to employ material dimensionality without overwhelming a design.
“Deep, dark wood finishes and rich fabrics like velvet and mohair are gaining popularity as homeowners gravitate toward spaces that feel luxurious yet inviting,” said Lubin. “Their resurgence reflects a move away from minimalism toward richer, more character-filled interiors.” While that character is often a reflection of the homeowners themselves, context should always play a role too.
“Clients have become much more design- and architecture-savvy in recent years, especially with how much inspiration is available online,” said Dereaux. “They’re not just interested in creating something new, they’re looking for spaces with story and history, and they want to honor that in how the interiors come together.”
