Top Interior Design Trends for 2025, And How to Use Them in Your Home
2025 is all about elevated comfort, sculptural design, and materials that feel like they’ve lived a life. Below are the five most specific and applicable trends, complete with real examples and suggested product types to help you design with intention.
1. 🪵 Material-Drenched Rooms
Forget accent walls—this year, we’re drenching entire rooms in a single material or finish for dramatic impact. Wood, plaster, and microcement are leading the charge.
Design Example:
A reading nook wrapped floor to ceiling in white oak slats, including a matching built-in bench and ceiling.
How to Apply:
Use lime-washed plaster on walls and ceilings in a powder room.
Wrap a primary bedroom in natural white oak paneling, even covering doors for a seamless look.
Paint trim, walls, and ceiling the same soft color (try Sherwin-Williams “Drift of Mist”) in matte or satin.
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2. 🛋️ Soft-Sculptural Furniture
Rounded edges, low seating, and exaggerated proportions are replacing traditional silhouettes. Comfort is non-negotiable, but in an artful way.
Design Example:
A custom curved sofa in boucle or teddy fabric facing a mushroom-shaped travertine coffee table.
How to Apply:
Replace boxy accent chairs with kidney-shaped lounge chairs in performance velvet.
Add a sculptural coffee table in travertine, fluted stone, or matte resin.
Choose low, lounge-y seating that encourages people to stay awhile.
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3. 🌾 Vintage + Artisanal Fusion
2025 interiors lean heavily on imperfect, collected items—handmade ceramics, vintage lighting, and custom woodwork.
Design Example:
A kitchen featuring antique brass faucet, hand-troweled plaster hood, reclaimed ceiling beams, and a mix of vintage chairs.
How to Apply:
Install a hand-carved wood vanity in your powder room.
Shop Etsy or Chairish for vintage pendant lights with patina.
Layer in vessels from local ceramicists with character and texture.
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4. 🌿 Elevated Indoor/Outdoor Blending
More than just open doors—this trend brings your exterior inside through materials, layout, and functional overlaps.
Design Example:
A dining room opens with oversized steel French doors to an outdoor kitchen that matches cabinetry and flooring tones.
How to Apply:
Match your outdoor countertops to your indoor kitchen stone.
Use tumbled limestone tile that flows from your mudroom to a covered porch.
Add olive trees in oversized planters to bridge the boundary visually.
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5. 💡 Oversized Lighting as Sculpture
Lighting in 2025 is going big—literally. Think chandelier-as-art, or pendant clusters that anchor a room.
Design Example:
A two-story entryway with a cascading cluster of frosted glass globes that glow like moonstones.
How to Apply:
Install a multi-arm brass fixture over your dining table.
Replace traditional bedside lamps with oversized pendant lighting.
Consider sculptural sconces that function as both light and art.
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Lindsay