Building on maximalist trends introduced earlier in 2025, the leading mid-year trends focus on spaces that make you feel good, from designing for joy, indulgent colors and textures, personalized decor, and amenity-style spaces geared for rest, relaxation and fun.
Here are some of the hottest trends in 2025, so far.
Country Club Core
There are some indulgent micro-trends this year, among them country club core, and its design cousin, equestrian core. Picture Ralph Lauren-esque inspired aesthetics for the horsey set or the preppy experience of an old-school country club. Some notable elements of country club core include:
Saturated, rich colors, like hunter and forest greens, navy and burgundy, along with neutrals like taupe, sand, and creams.
Plaid, stripes, Chinoiserie and houndstooth patterns, especially in textiles and accents.
High-quality leather or faux leather, for furniture, but also in unexpected places, such as with throw pillows, rugs, and wall treatments.
Rich wood details, like carved, elegant, chunky furniture, built-in bookcases (ideally filled with hardcover classics), wainscotting, and accent walls. Dark woods such as cherry and mahogany are popular.
Elegant artwork and accents, such as horse-themed prints, botanicals, vintage steamer trunks, polo clubs, bar carts, and maps.
2. Zen Dens
Living in the digital world has a lot of benefits, but the downside is that you are always connected, which threatens mental health. The answer is a Zen den, a space at home with design elements geared for digital detox.
As a rule, the space must be tech free and should be designed for whatever activity you find most restful: meditation, yoga, reading, writing, art, or a comfy daybed for an afternoon nap.
3. Home Saunas
Homeowners want new ways to unwind and treat themselves at home, which is why saunas are so hot right now.
“Having a sauna at home gives you a dedicated destination to experience daily wellness, allowing you to recreate the same mindset that you would bring to a resort or a spa. Treat sauna time as a special reprieve from the demands of the day” says Zach Hillesland, senior brand manager, Wellness Products at Kohler.
4. Curated Aesthetics
Choosing decor meaningfully is driving most of the popular trends that have emerged in 2025, including pattern and color drenching, dopamine decor, maximalism, bold colors, blending vintage with modern, transitional design, and designing for joy. The common thread with these trends? Decorate however you’d like, as long as it makes you happy.
These trends appear to say “anything goes,” but, in fact, these are all highly curated aesthetics, where strategy around balance and integration drives the design.
With color and pattern-heavy aesthetics, negative space is crucial for balance, and also to give the eye somewhere to rest, so the impact isn’t overwhelming.
In aesthetics where pieces have the potential to look out of place, like placing vintage pieces in a modern home, “Make selections that create a curated, balanced, and intentional space. Focusing on a specific color palette, period, or material (like wood or metal) can help,” says WELL and LEED accredited interior designer Sarah Barnard
5. Art Deco Revival
Right now, homeowners love nostalgia, metallics, and geometric shapes and patterns, which explains why Art Deco from the roaring 1920s, has roared back to lead trends a century later in 2025. Trending Art Deco features include:
Fun, hopeful colors, bright pastels and jewel tones.
Black-and-white, particularly with checkerboard floors and accents.
Metallics and mirrored finishes, especially in unexpected places, like furniture and tile backsplash.
Playful patterns, with an emphasis on geometric shapes and symmetry: chevron, zig-zags, moon, star and sun shapes, wide pinstripes, polka dots and the iconic Art Deco sunburst.
Old Hollywood glamor, with crystal chandeliers, gold accents, tufted furniture, makeup tables and glossy paint finishes.
6. Places for Play (for Kids and Adults)
In its 2025 Summer Trends Report, Houzz named fun zones and beverage stations among their top emerging trends, as homeowners look for new ways to entertain guests and create a setting for fun family time at home. Some of Houzz’s top searches in the fun zone category include billiard rooms, poker tables, video game rooms, putting greens, and Lego rooms.
While a home bar is often the hub of a home party, health and wellness design addresses a lifestyle shift, as more homeowners are looking for healthy alternatives to alcohol.
Beverage centers are often part of the kitchen and/or dining area, with coffee bars, juicers, refrigeration, counterspace ,and a selection of serveware on display.
7. Workstation Sinks
The workstation sink, a kitchen workhorse, is trending because of how it materializes a shift in kitchen design, where multi-functional and space-saving is king.
The workstation sink is an all-in-one cutting board, colander, countertop, drying board, prep space, and of course, a sink, too. Several designs on the market currently offer flashy finishes and custom lighting features that contribute to decor as well.
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