It’s that time of year again!
We’re already thinking about the living room trends that will be popular next year to give you a head start. From the colours in vogue to the textures growing in popularity, we’ve got our finger on the pulse. Your living room should be a welcoming space where you can relax, entertain and spend time with the family. If it’s time for a living room makeover, consider these 2025 trends for ideas and inspiration.
This year, we’re saying goodbye to neutral, cold design that doesn’t feel authentic to us. Instead, we want to create spaces that feel lived in. They should be bursting with character and leave an impression on our guests.
Who wants to relax in a living room that could belong to anyone? In 2025, we’re embracing personality, playing with textures, and not stopping for a second to worry about whether or not those colours go together.
Joy, Colour and Vibrancy
In 2025, we’re saying yes to passion and vitality. Gone are the days of muted tones and the less is more approach. We’re expecting an explosion of personality and character to sweep the design-sphere and we can’t wait to see it.
The living room is a reflection of you as a person. It’s often where we entertain guests and spend time during major holidays. When designing your living room, you have the opportunity to show the world who you are. What makes you happy and which colours spark joy?
Bold greens, sparkling golds and deep purples are just some of the colours we expect to see dominate living rooms in 2025. WGSN has already named Future Dusk, a dark and moody blueish purple, as their colour of the year. It’s a bold shade that reflects the growing trend of embracing colour rather than fearing it.
Don’t worry if your living room features many of the muted tones that were so popular in 2024. It’s easy to adapt your living room without having to start from scratch. In this instance, bold colour accents will complement your existing neutral decor.
This move towards character and joy in design permeates the rest of our trends. There’s a fundamental shift towards making creative choices that make us truly happy. It’s our home and space, and we’ll decorate it how we want.
The Glamour of a Bygone Era
Design trends are often cyclical. What was popular once may become popular again. Vintage patterns and nostalgic decor can infuse a modern home with a sense of charm and character that might otherwise be lacking.
Vintage designs feel luxurious and glamorous, no matter the size of your living room. They take us back to eras of excess and enchantment, giving your room a magnetism that will bewitch guests.
Pair dark, captivating colours with metallic accents to ensure guests take a step into another era when they enter your living room. This gives the room such depth and character that, no matter how new your house is, it’ll feel like hundreds of years worth of stories are soaked into these walls.
Smooth is Out, Texture is In
Give a plain, flat surface a new lease of life with textured walls in 2025. It’s such a simple and effective way of giving a room the same boost of personality we referenced in our section on vintage decor.
We know that installing an authentic textured wall can be a time-consuming and costly project. However, easy workarounds can give your living room the same effect without causing anywhere near as much hassle.
Wood panel wallpapers add charm and sophistication to any living room. They give the space a feeling of age and wisdom while also tricking the eye into believing that the room is bigger and more textured than it actually is.
Which of these trends are you most interested in implementing? Or, do you have other suggestions for the living room trends we’ll all be excited by in 2025? Let us know in the comments below!
