Your home is your sanctuary, and 2025 is the year you can create a healing space incorporating nature, color, texture and unique design elements. Sustainability echoes in your decisions and the spaces in which you live. From natural architecture to biophilic elements and functional masterpieces, express yourself with color exploration and dynamic innovations.
1. Build Arches Everywhere
If you’re building, consider adding arched windows, nooks and entrances. The arch is an organic element that fits perfectly with the increasing interest in naturalized design. Shape furniture to include rounded, arched forms and lush padding for comfort to create a homage to nature’s flowing shapes.
2. Create Organic Lines and Merge Spaces
Consider a bird’s eye view of the space and find ways to lead the gaze from one room to the next. Rounded sofas create an organic line upward to the archways behind them — a perfect example of how open-plan living spaces function.
Fluffed scatter pillows stacked on L-shaped couches and bean-shaped ottomans will invite visitors to stay with the sink-in comfort you offer.
3. Moody Color Schemes
Gone are the years when pastels and muted tones dominated. In 2025, you can let your inner artist play with moody colors, create vibrant monochromatic rooms and indulge in powerful blacks and browns.
Feature walls are also making a comeback, so spice things up with a dark-toned section in rich yellows, greens or browns. You can also splash out with textured wallpaper. Even the ceiling isn’t off-limits. When selecting colors, try to consider how these appear in nature. The revival of natural elements is gaining momentum, so pick organic colors to complement your nature-centric themes.
4. Bring Nature Inside
Biophilic design is revving up the home design market, with everything from furniture, architecture, interiors and lighting reflecting the desire to merge with nature. If you’re building, consider leaving trees where they are and building into and around them or adding massive boulders into unusual spaces like your kitchen.
Add planted walls, water features, indoor rivers and natural wood shelving for home trends. Expand this to include the textures of nature, with leaves, tree bark, sand and stone featured quite expressively.
It’s time to ditch the faux plants and invest in the real deal. Thanks to technology, virtually any plant can be grown indoors with the right growth lights and careful horticultural husbandry. For convenience, incorporate LED growth lights with your smart home system.
5. Revive White
While colors dominate this year, white is far from done. The bare palette remains popular, and white walls are the perfect backdrop for vibrant art and natural elements that tie your decor scheme together.
When working with white as a color, choose different shades of white and various textures to create vibrancy, celebrating tonal variance. Play with multiple white combinations and splash accents in neutral or powerful organic colors like green or yellow.
6. Invest in Artisanal Pieces
Despite living in an age of technological dominance, craftsmanship is seeing a revival like never before. A demand has sprung up for artisanal pieces in furniture, ornamentation, cabinetry and art. This “artisan wave” sees two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. involving craft and home-style manufacturing.
Less becomes more, and crowded interiors bow out in favor of quality pieces that speak to your soul. Consider large craftsman tables where families can gather for meals or unique benches and chairs that create comfortable out-of-the-way nooks to relax with a book or quiet music.
7. Try Tantalizing Textures
Patterns are taking a backseat, and texture is stepping into the limelight. Consider mixing and matching textures in everything from the walls and floor to the ceiling and upholstery. Fluting is the first trick in your texture bag, and you can play with various fluted textures.
Consider recycled wood slats for kitchen cabinetry to echo fluting and sustainability, or create it on walls with stucco fluting or bamboo paneling that will inspire you — layer textures for bold statements and to create visual interest. Incorporate the illusion of texture with high-quality 3D-printed wallpaper, keeping to natural textures that speak of life and growing things.
8. Swing Into Style
Of all the potential furniture pieces to add, one that’s standing out is an indoor swing. This whimsical furniture piece is proving quite popular and will keep trending in the coming year. You may want to think of it as a traditional Roman swing bed, where you can laze about comfortably, not the creaky back porch swing from your childhood.
Create a trend by swapping your regular lounge furniture for swing-mounted ones that keep visitors off their feet with luxury and comfort. A couple of hanging chairs or hammock seats won’t go amiss, so get your home into the swing of things with natural fiber swing ropes and macrame for some suspended trailing plants to layer some interest.
9. Indulge in Unique Wall Treatments
Walls are more than forgotten areas that only received a lick of paint in the past. With warm, earthy colors, surprising accents, textured panels, an invasion of nature and unique finishes, your walls become focal points. Prep your walls for inspired looks and unique tactile qualities, and let the trends begin.
Remember to include your ceiling in your considerations, too. For dramatic effect, create contrast with a dark wallpapered ceiling or interplay sections of coffer or tray ceilings with untextured paintwork on ceiling beams or recesses.
Alternatively, raise your standard flat ceiling to 10 or 13 feet to increase the feel of spaciousness and light. The added height gives the illusion of double volume, perfect for tall plants to shine.
10. Choose All-in-One Bathrooms
An all-in-one bathroom is a perfect renovation, where the shower steps from the tiny stall of the past and now includes the whole space. Add glorious greenery with water-hungry plants, and you’ll feel like you’re showering in the rainforest. Consider innovative uses of existing features, such as a large window that can become a window shower, blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor space.
11. Use Open Storage
With creative storage options, you can now use open, double-volume and recessed alcoves to keep your life organized. Tall cupboards with doors hiding a mess are no more, and this year is all about functionality with large baskets to stack everything from toys and linen to files and gym equipment.
Minimalism has faded from design, but the minimalist lifestyle is still strong as you focus more on sustainability and living lightly.
12. Hide Technology
Smart homes are popular, but seeing technology everywhere isn’t. Hide TVs and other entertainment units in pop-up cabinets or behind swivel paintings. Everything is now voice-activated or runs off your phone’s apps, so there’s no need for clunky remote controls or exposed wiring.
13. Layer Features
Multi-functionality is the order of the day, and if furniture can double as storage for items like pillows or blankets, then consider it a win. Layer spaces, features, textures and patterns for chic designs that speak to a comfortable living environment.
Create a Bold Space Ahead of Its Time
Trends come and go, but the newest decor trends lean toward sustainability in the materials used and how these ideas become incorporated into your life. Focus on making a space you’ll love spending time in and cultivate openness and joy. It’s time to return to harmonious sensibilities.
