More of This Next Year, Please
As the year comes to an end, here's what design elements I want to see more of in 2025.
My year in a nutshell. Anyone else?
Over the last year, I’ve snapped photos, pinned digital images, and read pages and pages of textbooks in pursuit of design ideas with lasting integrity.
If you’re looking to update your space in the new year or are curious about what’s been circling in my brain lately, keep scrolling to see five design elements I want to see more of in 2025.
Quick disclaimer - none of these are necessarily groundbreaking, which is exactly the point. They’re not meant to explode as trends but rather represent ideas that can be applied selectively to enhance individualistic design styles over the long run.
1. Sculptures
While wall art is typically top of mind when designing a room, we often overlook the impact a sculpture can make in a space. If a traditional sculpture is out of your budget at the moment, a unique-shaped plant in an artistic planter serves a similar purpose. Artists: R&Y Augoust and Gedion Nyanhongo.
2. Detailed Hardware
Updating hardware is an easy swap that’s even renter-friendly, but most people’s first instinct is to select simple/modern options. Instead, I’d love to see more detailed hardware selections in kitchens and on furniture. It may feel a bit risky, but because hardware is small, it won’t overpower your design.
3. Season-Inspired Artwork
One of my favorite ways to select artwork for a space is to analyze a room’s color palette, style, and functional purpose and then match it with a season. From there, I’ll source artwork inspired by the season to evoke a particular emotion in the space. For example, a living room with limited natural light, traditional/Wabi Sabi style, mostly used for relaxation would be an “Autumn” and pair nicely with these pieces.
4. Bold Rugs
Minimalism and simplicity certainly have a place in my 2025 playbook, but lately, I’ve been drawn to attention-grabbing rugs. The best part of a bolder rug is that it allows more minimal color schemes and furniture styles to shine without the risk of getting boring. Go bold through color, pattern, and/or texture.
5. Treasure Lighting
Often overlooked, lighting is one of the most fundamental aspects of a design scheme for both functionality and form. Unique lamps add the personality and artistry that are key to elevating spaces beyond the ordinary. I’m obsessed with ones that look like gemstones or objects from a treasure box.
Stay tuned for my new sereies LOTD (lamp of the day).
I hope this leaves you feeling inspired and ready for refreshed interiors. Ultimately as long as we leave Modern Farmhouse behind, 2025 will be a great year for design, so cheers to what’s ahead.
P.S. Thanks a million for all of your support this year - I truly appreciate every single one of you who subscribes and takes the time to be a part of the Eleventh House community. It means the world. xx
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