Top Interior Design Trends of 2025
Zeitgeist: the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. With the start of the new year, we are experiencing the beginning of a new quarter in this century. Interpreting style and design has always been a great way to determine the focus and values of a generation historically, as these fashion choices are a reflection of ourselves. By observing interior design trends we can highlight the hopes of our society for the future. As indicated by these up-and-coming trends, we have seen a rise in the need for efficiency, maximizing space, health consciousness, and environmental preservation.
Efficient Furniture for an Efficient Household: Adaptive Design
Commonly faced with increasing costs and decreasing floor plan sizes, multifunctional furniture has been a growing trend within the past year — particularly with millennials and the members of Generation Z, who are now taking their first steps in property ownership. This trend of adaptive interior design emphasizes making the absolute most out of the limited space available with multi-use furniture. Designed to meet multiple needs, furniture such as foldaway sofa beds and desks that double as dining tables allow one to maximize the potential of their limited space.
Environmentally-friendly Home Environments: Sustainable Design
In an era of increasing eco-consciousness and awareness of the impact one’s decisions have on the environment, it stands to reason that one trend growing in popularity is a design that emphasizes sustainability above all else. It ensures that furniture or decorations abide by standards that guarantee a limited environmental impact via their Environmental Product Declaration (EPDs) — a quantifiable, verifiable way of examining a product’s environmental impact. Further, it strives to avoid using materials sourced with poor ethical practices, which oftentimes harms people or animals, verified using Health Product Declarations (HPDs).
Sustainable design focuses on creating a space that prioritizes human and planetary health while still looking aesthetically pleasing; this means sourcing materials from EPA-approved manufacturers and utilizing materials that avoid toxic components. These materials are typically harmful not only to the environment but to human health as well. Due to the currently heightened interest in health and wellness, especially when tied to social media fads, environmentally friendly designs are guaranteed to increase in popularity in the coming year.
Blending Indoors with the Outdoors: Wellness/Healing Design
Another nature-based trend facing a surge in popularity is merging the indoors of one’s home with the outdoors. This design choice reflects society’s increasing desire for spaces in our homes to practice meditation and mental wellness, dubbed “Healing Rooms,” designed to be havens for relaxation and rejuvenation from the stress of everyday life.
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A wellness room also usually sees a door, window, or outdoor screen implemented to allow for a direct connection to the outside; this not only lets fresh air into the space while keeping bugs out, but it can also be a great way to bring in more natural lighting (thus reducing the need for artificial or LED lights) while mitigating potentially harmful UV rays. Suffice it to say, these healing rooms that bring the outdoors into one’s home are a much-needed trend that will only grow in popularity as the desire for spaces to minimize anxiety increases.
Less is More: Minimalist Design
The minimalist movement has steadily grown in popularity over the past few years. If you’ve somehow missed the wave, minimalism emphasizes simple designs that only contain the bare necessities — no excessive decorations, no clutter. Similarly to the healing rooms of the previous design, minimalism is all about mental health; the uncluttered room design intends to reflect the decluttering of one’s mind. A room free of unnecessary material possessions keeps your mind clear of distractions while encouraging a calmer mood throughout your home. At least, this is the idea.
While many believe a minimalist interior style also requires a muted or monochromatic color palette, this is not necessarily true. A minimalist interior design does not exclude more vibrant colors, accents, highlights, or contrasting colors altogether. Instead, minimalism strives to ensure that every aspect of your home serves a purpose. If an item has no function, a minimalist sees it better to cut it out entirely than have it take up space without reason. In other words, minimalism preaches that “less is more”.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Discreet Tech Design
More so an adaptive technique that can fit into any interior design style, discreet tech is a trend based around seamlessly and subtly integrating technology within one’s home. You have likely heard of “smart” technology or appliances in one’s home that are fitted with network or internet capabilities to bring them into the modern era. Smart home devices can stick out like a sore thumb amongst one’s other decorations and general home aesthetic. Discreet tech is a trend that remedies this issue; by implementing technology into one’s home in a subtle and obscure way, we can have an uncluttered, modern smart home.
Examples of items utilized in this style include hidden surround speakers, furniture with built-in wireless charging capabilities, voice-controlled lighting, and retractable screens that virtually disappear from view when not in use. Many items that could be considered within the discreet tech style could also fit within the Adaptive Design interior style we covered earlier; much of the multifunctional furniture within adaptive design is fitted with technology to make the most out of the limited space within one’s home. Oftentimes, these two styles fit together within the same space quite well.
Whether it’s styles that have long since been growing in popularity, such as the Minimalist style, or newer styles that are just now seeing recognition, such as the Wellness/Healing Style, there is no shortage of styles available to fit your aesthetic.
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