With a new year comes the promise of new possibilities. It’s a perfect time to hit the reset button and set the tone for the year to come, and nowhere can an overhaul be more transformative than at home. After all, it’s where we spend the majority of our lives, and even more so during a time of such financial instability. So while it feels strange discussing interior design trends for 2025 during such a time, the vibe shift evident in other creative avenues is also being felt in the design world.
We’re talking less microtrends and more investment in what makes your personal interior style sing.
Looking at this year, and beyond, it’s all about embracing modern emerging aesthetics that are equally as contemporary as they are rooted in tradition, and replacing transitory trends with long-term investment in the most enduring style of all – a sense of self.
From pattern play with a no-holds-barred aesthetic to ’70s cool and espresso everything, these are the 2025 interior trends set to reinvigorate the design rulebook.
The Interior Design Trends Destined For Your 2025 Moodboards
’70s Style

In a newly colour confident world that’s leaning into character and personality over copy and paste style, there’s no greater time to welcome a return to seventies sensibilities.
Known for luxe, comforting textures like velvet, chenille and corduroy in rich nature-inspired jewel tones that range from mustard and burgundy, to garnet and emerald green, ’70s style embodies a notion of comfort and cosiness with an elevated aesthetic.
Forecasted at both Paris and Milan Design Weeks as a style with substance that was gaining traction, its wider influence across the homes world in 2025 is showing no sign of slowing down.
And for good reason. Striking a balance between maximalism and architectural simplicity, the interior design trends of 2025 – such as this – are less fleeting and more in line with feeling.
What makes us feel good? Where do we find solace? The answer more often than not can be found within the walls we call home, whatever that looks like.
And so, in tapping into the nostalgic world of the ’70s, a veritable treasure-trove of inspiration – and pleasure – awaits.

As with other interiors/fashion trend crossovers, the ’70s influence was impossible to ignore during the Spring/Summer shows.
Chloé’s Chemena Kamali ushered in the Boho renaissance that picked up speed in the motifs and silhouettes explored across the runways of Saint Laurent, Gucci, Isabel Marant and Stella McCartney, but quickly became more than just a fashion statement.
The style found its renewed footing in the freedom of expression it offers as a reaction to quiet luxury and capsule wardrobes, and a will to reconnect with individuality – as reflected in its interior translations.
Its beauty also lies in its aesthetic adaptability. Not sure about a sunken living room or water drop chairs? Too short on time to devote large amounts of it scouring vintage resale sites for the perfect Arne Jacobsen piece? There’s no need to turn your home into a museum for the sake of a retro revival.
Instead, pick and choose which elements you’re comfortable with adopting. This could look like deeply coloured velvet cushions, a statement sculptural lamp, patterned wallpaper or bringing in materials like chrome, rattan or darker wood tones. It’s all about mood over method, which makes it the perfect formula to adopt when your stuck in a style rut.
New Metal

Most commonly associated with industrial-style interiors or Brutalist aesthetics, metal has often felt out of place in most homes that don’t meet the material’s seemingly strict brief.
But over the last 12-months, there’s been a significant vibe shift in regards to this once-misunderstood material.
No longer trapped within industrial or even commercial boundaries, the new metal renaissance is here to stay.
While its renewed popularity won’t come as a surprise to lovers of 20th century design or mid-century collectors, its ever-expanding use in homewares, furniture and decorative accents – most recently in stainless steel and chrome, is a welcome introduction.
And like its similarly embraced interiors trend, brown (which also pares perfectly with metal), its aesthetic influence just keeps increasing.
In 2025, we’re seeing a departure from the mirror-like shine of high-impact chrome into the warmer world of soft stainless, brushed nickel and aluminium as the finishes favoured by designers and consumers alike.

Runways featuring brushed and muted metallic looks were seen across Spring/Summer 2025 collections by the likes of Sportsmax, Bottega Veneta, Peter Do and Prada. While the interiors world experienced a Regencycore-adjacent embrace of the coquette aesthetic that brought decorative metallic accents back from their starker connotations into the realm of the romantic and ornate.
Long a mainstay of modern Scandinavian design, steel, especially in softer interpretation, continued to feature across seasonal collections from Nordic design houses like Ferm Living, Audo Copenhagen, Frama (shown above), Hay, Muuto and Gubi (just to name a few), and often as complementary pieces for rich timber tones and luxe furnishings across the colour spectrum.
Closer to home, new collections from Von Steel celebrate the material’s architectural possibilities, and likewise Rachel Donath’s Yuuki interpretation celebrated its elegance and gentle simplicity.
Metal’s new direction was further emphasised with the return of tablescaping to the mainstream, where intricate serveware by the likes of Gohar World and vintage (or vintage-inspired) dinnerware transformed tables into works of art. And as a new year has started, so too has a continued appreciation for the adaptable material.
Mocha Mix

A mainstay of last-year’s winter fashion palette that continued to take the spring/summer season by storm, brown has also made its mark in the interiors world – with no sign of slowing down.
Its flourishing revival offers a reprieve from the monochromatic schemes that dominated much of the last decade with a warm and welcoming energy that speaks to the mood of the moment.

So much so, that even Pantone agreed, declaring Mocha Mousse the colour of 2025 – much to the surprise (and delight) of many. Unlike the vivid, somewhat intense colours we’ve seen in its previous iterations, the earthy elegance of the chosen colourway felt like a course correction for our chaotic times.
And perhaps that’s exactly why the design world is leaning in to the grounding hue now more than ever.

Aligned with a more general pivot towards prioritising wellness and sustainability, brown – from chocolate and taupe, to mocha and espresso – evokes a sense of calm and comfort that’s both inherently modern and deeply rooted in the tradition.
But far from the gentlemen’s club aesthetic it was often associated with, the colourway’s contemporary reimagining is all about the power of the new mocha mix to elevate any interior.
Its surge in popularity has also coincided with a renewed appreciation for nature-based colours as a departure from the Scandinavian-style schemes that prioritises a pared-back palette over variations of tone.
Not only are browns overtaking black or grey as the perfect accent partner for neutrals, but they’ve also become one of the most complementary – and universally flattering – shades around.
Think washes of rich chocolate brown accented by powder blue, or the winning combination of espresso and burgundy, and even velvety mocha pared with butter yellow. The options are truly endless and even even extends to our ongoing obsession with darker wood tones like walnut and teak in response to the light oak and white-washed timbers that’ve dominated Modern Coastal and Scandi schemes for years.
Take the warm nostalgia created by interior designer Adam Hunter in this project, or the delicious walnut joinery and antique brass hardware in the Helensburgh of photographer and stylist Nat Spadavecchia. Even designer Athena Calderone – whose monochromatic, Parisian-inspired townhouse inspired an entire aesthetic movement – turned to the dark side when she bought an Art Deco gem in Tribeca.
All this is to say that, despite brown existing within the somewhat fleeting discourse surrounding trends, the colour – in all its varied glory – won’t be falling from favour any time soon.
4 Ways With Brown
Pattern Drenching

Colour drenching was one of the most popular aesthetics of 2024 and as more of us dipped our toes into the world of the brave, our penchant for bolder palettes only increased.
Keen to collectively kick the habit of deferring to white-on-white as the style safety zone du jour, a confidence boost spurred by the addictive force of dopamine design was akin to a warm embrace in an increasingly unstable world.
Now, as we enter a new year that holds up it’s own challenges, maximalism’s next step feels as natural as ever.

But don’t just take our word for it.
The maximalist trend was already spotted across the Spring Summer 2025 runways, giving pattern-on-pattern the sartorial tick of approval from the likes of Dries Van Noten, Valentino and Saint Laurent, just to name a few.
And while we appreciate that pattern as a design device can itself feel more dust-collecting than dreamy, the decorative options of today are far from the drawing room décor schemes of old.

What we’re talking about in 2025 is character – and plenty of it.
Dive in with elevated upholstery, fabric and wallpaper in lucid colours and whimsical prints. Or, for a sensible first step, why not try a tonal take like the painterly stripe fabric and wallpaper combination by Sarah Sherman Samuel above?
However you choose to dip into the trend, like colour drenching, it’s all about choosing what works for your space and your mood.
Go big and bold, or stick to the subtle side, whatever feels most in tune with your interior design style is always the right direction – no matter what your algorithm might say.
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