Spring 2025 Home Décor Trends

Spring 2025 Home Décor Trends

Say farewell to minimalism, stark white rooms, fast furniture and mid-century modern; welcome home to maximalism, moody earth hues, antiques and Art Deco.

If the idea of changing your décor as radically as from minimalism to maximalism is giving you the heebie-jeebies, you should know that acceptance and implementation of new home styles can take years, so you don’t have to be the first one on your block to embrace them. Home design and interior design are not so much based in fickle fashion as they are in cultural changes shaped by new attitudes, world events, and the economy.

Sometimes, we’re lucky to have a word or a catchphrase that communicates the latest ethos. After 9/11, “cocooning” influenced

home design—the nation responded to the tragedy by focusing more on home life, flying our stars and stripes, and creating cocoon-like environments in our homes.

In a way, cocooning is coming back in a new iteration, as 2025 becomes the year to focus on comfort, well-being, and personal preferences.

Maximalism

When people feel flush, they tend to spend more on décor, collectibles, art, and finer furnishings, just as they did during the Victorian Gilded Age. The antithesis of minimalism, maximalism in 2025 is a curated expression of excess, abundance, and extravagance. Read More.

Find Your Comforting Brown Shade for 2025

Color psychologists say that colors have personalities that affect people and the environment. Brown, for example, is quietly confident, approachable, reliable, and reassuring.

When the Pantone Color Institute released its selection for the Color of the Year 2025, a rich silky brown evocative of chocolate and coffee called Mocha Mousse, it explained that this is the shade that answers a global “desire for comfort.” Mocha Mousse also provides a safe haven for neutralists who want a bold, fresh alternative to classic whites, grays, or beiges.

Benjamin Moore also chose a consoling brown for its Color of the Year, a confident, snuggly shade called Cinnamon Slate. Lauded as a “delicate mix of heathered plum and velvety brown,” this hue leads the muted Color Trends Palette for 2025.

Sherwin Williams’ 2025 Color Collection of the Year showcases soothing browns as well—a dark taupe called Nutshell and a warm milk chocolate called Grounded.

Browns easily define the theme of enveloping comfort and partner well with secondary and accent colors in creams, blues, and greens.