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The Best Interior Design Trends for 2025 – Part 1
Welcome to 2025. It’s the beginning of the year and that time when we look for the trends in interior design and decide if we want to do a refresh or a full blown redesign in our home. This year interior design is embracing its inner vintage diva, donning brass accents like a red-carpet accessory, partaking in the quiet luxury trend and unapologetically indulging in the cozy, chocolatey hues of brown. If your home could talk, it would probably say, “I’m feeling so 2025.” Let’s dive into this year’s hottest trends and why your decor deserves a glow-up.

The Pantone 2025 Color of the Year – Mocha Mousse!
“The Pantone Color of the Year 2025 is a soft brown shade whose visceral richness, sensual and cozy warmth appeal to our desire for comfort and the simple pleasures we can give and share with others.”
— Laurie Pressman, Vice President, Pantone Color Institute
I have to admit, when I first saw the Pantone 2025 Color of the Year, I was a little underwhelmed. Usually the color they pick every year is “in your face”. But the more I researched it and heard why they picked this color, I understood it a little bit more and it certainly fits in with the other colors the paint companies have picked for 2025. Brown is the color of the moment and deep red colors (burgundy, cranberry, merlot, oxblood) have been trending for awhile. You can even put them together and you get MAROON, which is a combination of brown and red.

23 Things that Gave Me Life This Season – The Last of the Year
It’s almost the end of the year. Can you believe it? This year went by so fast and I feel like I did not complete all of my goals for the year. How about you? I’m looking at my vision board that I made at the beginning of the year and I have to say, there are a few things I did not do, like traveling to nearby states for long weekends and really leaning into a healthy lifestyle with exercise and a healthy diet.
Designer & Diy’er pumped up on caffeine and willing to create anything. I want to let women know they can do it and if they don’t want to, I will.
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