Here are the Top 10 Interior Design Trends you’ll be seeing in 2025. Before I get started, let me introduce myself. My name is Lucy, I’m an interior designer, presenter and author. I love creating and sharing inspiring homes and interiors and these are 10 trends I’ve been noticing and that I think will dominate interior design in 2025. Let’s get into it.
1. Colour Drenching
Gone are the days of the feature wall it is ALL about drenching a room in colour. Whether that be hero’ing one signature colour or bringing in two complementary colours. Colour drenching means that there are no contrast skirts, trim or ceilings. This is a great idea especially for small spaces. I find that people often shy away from colour in smaller areas but it can actually be a great way to enhance the scale of the room, as there are no contrasting elements to draw your eye to. So for example if the ceiling is the same colour as the walls, then it doesn’t stand out, instead they recede softly into the background. Creating a calm backdrop for the rest of your furniture and finishes.
2. Ceilings are the new walls
Just like Lionel Richie’s classic, it’s all about dancing on the ceiling, but with colour, pattern and texture. This is the full extension of colour drenching – taking colour to the ceiling. I think this is a great way to bring in a secondary colour, and I love the idea of being bold with the colour choice or bringing in a dominant material like timber. I personally love this trend, I think standard ceiling white has had plenty of time in the spotlight so I hope this trend sticks around.
3. Grey is (still) dead
Beige is the new grey and stark whites are now creamy naturals. This preference towards a warmer, earthier palette is nothing new, we’ve seen it for a while now but there really is an increase in warm neutrals. Muted hues, soft colours that create a feeling of calm and groundness. You’re also going to be seeing lots of clay and terracotta, also calm blues and green against warm neutrals. Also pops of lemon, plum and red are also making their mark. But hey, if you have an all grey house, don’t feel bad. Just give it 7 or so years and you’ll be right back on trend again.
4. Tartan
Yes the Scottish highlands are on trend and making a splash in modern homes around the world. I’m seeing this everywhere and I’m even contemplating tartan for my own banquette seating (more on that trend later). It’s a great option for flooring, or a pop of pattern in bench seats or cushions. It’s giving old-school pub vibes, taking a once dare I say daggy material and reimagining it through a modern lens.
5. Discreet Tech
Honestly this has been on the rise for a long time but tech is no longer an after thought but an integrated design element from the very beginning. I think this just comes from a more cohesive approach to design as a whole. Architects and interior designers are embracing how their clients live rather than fighting it. It’s removing that ego from a design point of view and making homes liveable, but doing that as discreetly as possible. Integrated cabinetry, concealed screens or sliding doors. Even just recessed boxing, to enable the tv to sit within rather than out.
6. The Element of Surprise
We are done with minimalism, in favour for far more decorative and cosier spaces. I don’t want to use the word maximilism, but in some cases sure, maximilism is definitely making a mark, but it’s more about the element of surprise. An unexpected choice of material, colour, tile, grout colour. It’s about finding play in the ordinary. Interiors are becoming far less afraid and more expressive. With this trend you can still maintain a level of calm consistency throughout the home but it invites freedom to be playful with a few hero moments now and again to keep it interesting.
7. Sensory Texture
On the flipside to colour drenching there is also a heavy preference towards textured surfaces right now. Embracing the natural beauty of raw materials. Working with elements like concrete, pressed earth, natural stone, recycled brick, and timber and allowing those materials to take centre stage. I love this trend, celebrating natural materials will never date in my opinion. It’s not an easy or cheap trend by any means and it requires you to either build from scratch or have preexisting materials in your home. So if this is your jam but you don’t have the right bones in your home, then try bringing in textural elements through key pieces like curtains, rugs, coffee tables, vanities or benchtops to get the look.
8. Banquettes Baby
Back in a big way, is integrated seating with banquet style dining areas and living nooks. This is a great option for smaller spaces to really maximise your seating. Not just banquet seating but also integrated benches in entranceways, custom cabinetry or feature window frames. Often upholstered in leather, and also you guessed it, tartan, what’s up Scotland. And this unexpected pattern brings that element of surprise I was talking about earlier into the mix.
9. The Broken Plan
Wide open spaces are great but not in interiors these days. We’re seeing a preference towards partitioned zones rather than an open plan layout. Clearly identifying different purposes for each zone. I’m seeing more and more subtle division now between living and dining especially. And in bathrooms, there is also a preference towards enclosed showers, concealing showers behind a nib wall rather than a screen.
10. Block Out
Go big or go home. Well technically you already are home, but this block out trend is all about big, bold, heavy blocks of solid material. I’m seeing this a lot with natural stone especially. This is definitely a big one for kitchens and bathrooms, designers are preferencing slabs that wrap and float in a space, and foregoing the more traditional addition of a tiled splashback. This creates more of a refined, seamless finish. It makes the hero the material, which links back to what I was talking about in Trend 7 SENSORY TEXTURE. This design trend is all about bringing colour, pattern and texture into a space without the use of paint and instead making a singular natural material, you guessed it, the hero.
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Those are my top 10 trends I think will dominate in 2025. I’d love to know what trends you’ve been noticing, and if you think I’ve missed one let me know in the comments below. If you want to find out more about any of the interiors referenced in this video you’ll find this in the description below.
Just remember trends are just that, trends. They come and they go. My advice to anyone designing interiors for your own home, trust your instincts and go with what you love. It’s your home, you need to love it.
With a background in Communication Design, Lucy excelled in graphic design and art direction for a number of high profile brands before co-founding Hunting for George. A designer turned acclaimed leader in eCommerce turned raconteur, Lucy is a natural born storyteller. Her focus lies towards shaping Hunting for George as a leader in Australian Design & Lifestyle media.
