Interior Design Trends for 2025: How important are design trends, really?

The biggest trend you can follow is defining your own personal style.

Every year, we’re bombarded with “what’s hot (and what’s not”) lists for the new year, from hair and make-up choices, the clothes we should (or shouldn’t) be wearing, books to read, TV shows to watch and how we should be styling our homes.

However, does it really matter?

I’ve never been one to follow trends, and am often very late to most parties. When it comes to Netflix series, this can be useful, as you can usually watch a full box set without waiting for each new episode release.

Finding my own personal style and “just doing me” is far more important than trying to be either something I’m not, or being told by so-called “experts” on how I should dress, style my home, or the nail polish I should be wearing this summer.

With that said, it doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy reading what the proposed trends are at the start of each year.

What are your thoughts on following trends? Do you prefer to follow your own path or take inspiration from the latest styles?

So, what can we look forward to for 2025?

To name a few, indoor swings (yes, you read that right), wooden kitchens, and colour drenching are all trends to keep your eye on in 2025.

I’ve selected 8 interior design trends which are predicted to be favourites for 2025.

I’m sharing these trends purely for your enjoyment and by no means suggesting you should implement any of these ideas into your own home unless it’s something you’ve been considering for a while.

Remember, the best trend you can follow is discovering your own personal style. Ultimately, it’s your home, and it’s important your interior design choices are timeless and suit your lifestyle, and personality.

Here are my favourite selections for 2025.

Vintage is the new modern

With so much focus on sustainable living and being more aware of our impact on the environment and how much we contribute to landfill, it’s no surprise that vintage furniture is a key trend for 2025.

Ercol has been a huge favourite for interior lovers, becoming increasingly popular over recent years, to the point where finding original ercol pieces are becoming harder and harder.

If you’re a fan of ercol furniture, you may be interested in reading the post I wrote last year.

Why ercol is so special in the interior design industry

Not only are you reducing your carbon footprint by shopping vintage over new (you’re also supporting in the reduction of mass-produced furniture), but choosing vintage (or preloved) extends the life of a piece of furniture that might otherwise end up at the local dump, contributing to landfill.

Set Of Two 1950 Jan Vanek Loungers In Ivory Boucle by Vinterior

In addition, each piece not only tells a unique story, it’s distinctive design adds individuality and personality to your home, which you can rarely achieve through todays modern furniture choices.

Baked earth colours

Ranging from warm, earthy tones accentuated with brown, ochre, terracotta, and sunbaked reds, these colours add warmth and tranquility to your home.

This years colour of the year announcements from both Benjamin Moore and Pantone were centred around tones of brown, whereas Dulux chose the more uplifting yellow, True Joy (which you could argue fits within the ochre tones).

Image from Craig & Rose

These colours not only create a cosy, inviting atmosphere, they also connect us to nature, making our living spaces feel grounded and harmonious. However you choose to incorporate these hues, baked earth colours will bring a sense of calm and comfort to your home.

Wooden kitchens

Apparently, wooden kitchens are back, although did they ever really go out of fashion?

Kitchen design by Hacker Kitchens

Nothing beats good quality, solid wooden kitchen units. My favourite wood choice having to be a combination of natural oak and rich American walnut; the beauty of the natural texture of wood can’t be beaten.

Be more playful

The whole essence of trends is that they are short-lived and ultimately fun. Certainly in 2024, a lot of the predicted trends were considered to be timeless, with emphasis on sustainability, inviting living rooms and the resurgence of brown.

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You can read last years post on 2024 interior design trends if you missed it. I’ve since removed the paywall.

Interior Design Trends 2024: What's in and what's out: Part 1

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Stumbling across the array of indoor swings which are gracing the internet, I couldn’t resist including this trend.

Indoor swings from Brigette Romanek, Anne-Marie Barton and the home of Gwyneth Paltrow

Hanging bubble (or egg) chairs aren’t anything new. However, installing a complete indoor swing is a very cool (if not quirky) idea.

Iconic designer Brigette Romanek has one in her home, having installed one in Gwyneth Paltrow’s home (click on the link, if you’d like to have a little snoop round). It really is beautiful and the spa is something else.

My particular favourite is the Lee Broom hanging hoop chair that Anne-Marie Barton installed in her Jordanelle project.

However, at a whopping £4,000 I don’t think I’ll be purchasing one of these anytime soon!

Lee Broom hanging hoop chair

Textured neutral bedrooms

The idea that our bedrooms should replicate our very own calm sanctuary is a trend which isn’t going anywhere for 2025.

Where we’re being encouraged to incorporate, warm, rich colours into our home, this may not be to everyones taste. If you’re a neutral lover, to never want to venture across to the dark(colour) side, adding texture is the perfect way to add some interest to your bedroom.

Photographed by Michael Clifford

This fabulous bedroom designed by Jake Arnold showcases the beauty of a layered look through the use of monochromatic textures.

Double drenching

For any interior lover, you’re likely familiar with the popularity of colour drenching. However, for 2025 it’s being taken to a whole new level with double drenching.

Double drenching is the method of dramatically transforming a space by painting all available surfaces in two or more related colours.

This new approach is a fabulous way to confidently embrace and combine colours that might not typically be seen and used alongside each other in a single scheme.

Double drenching by Little Greene

Wall lighting

Gone are the days of simply turning on the “big light”.

I’m not sure about you, but our ceiling lights, at least in the living room, are purely for aesthetic purposes and are rarely ever turned on.

I much prefer a softer light that provides a relaxing ambience ,which you rarely get from the “big light.”

Table lamps and floor lamps have been a popular choice for many years, although for 2025 wall lights are set to see a resurgence, particularly with unusual materials or bold designs to make a statement.

Arame lighting by Tom Raffield

Tom Raffield is one of my all-time favourite light designers, and you’re not going to get much more of a statement than that of the Arame wall lighting.

Bring the outside in

Biophelic design has been listed as one of the top interior trends for the last few years, so it’s probably no surprise to see it listed again for 2025.

Focussed on bringing the outdoors inside, creating spaces that adopt a strong connection with nature.

Photography by Michael Clifford

This fabulous space designed by Brigette Romanek is an amazing example of bringing the outside in. The incredible floor-to-ceiling windows connect the outside with the inside seamlessly.

The clever choice of a green sofa, which represents the green of grass, and these wonderful chairs in varying tones of brown remind me of the trunks of trees.

If only we were in a position to have a space like this in our homes.

That concludes my interior design trends for 2025. Do you have a particular favourite? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Next week, I’m planning to share those previous trends which are not quite so hot this year, so do keep an eye out for that.

Until then have a wonderful weekend.

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