Are you planning to do a home makeover in 2025? If yes, there are many interior designers who are telling their viewers to cancel the following design choices. By no means is this a comprehensive list, it’s just some of the most obvious ones that would be easy to do away with.
Decorative Signs
Do you know those signs—like Home Sweet Home, Welcome Home, Home is where the Heart is—that are stylized in fancy penmanship and found on walls as murals or posters? (Check out the feature image.) These started coming out in 2010 or thereabouts, and are still a go-to decor for wedding planners today. However, interior designers are saying that for your home, enough already.
Instead of putting these on your walls, hang local artwork. A gallery wall of family photos is also a good alternative. Or if you want less clutter, don’t hang anything. Just make sure your paint job is topnotch though.
Wall-to-Wall Carpet
Wrong country to use wall-to-wall carpets. With the dust, pollution, and humidity, these things can become the petri dishes for organisms that can cause allergies.
If you can afford it, lay down wooden planks, tiles, or go for concrete. Click on the image above or this link to help you choose the best flooring for your home.
Fake Plants
Whether or not you have the uncanny knack for killing plants, ban fake foliage from ever entering your domain. No one can argue that faux plants, unlike real ones, don’t release oxygen and can’t help raise the energy in the room. Click on the link below to get some tips on the plants that can clean the air in your home.
Fake plants are dust catchers. Yet, an advantage of having these is that these are safe for children and pets, unlike toxic plant varieties. A plastic plant won’t attract insects and pests as well. Another thing to consider though is that many of these things are usually made from petroleum-based plastics. So when you’re bored with them and want to throw them away, you’d be hurting the environment.
Accent Walls
Accent walls were a trend in early 2000, now interior designers are revisiting this design feature.
They are divided on this. Some say that an accent wall can make a room look choppy and compartmentalized in not a good way. It could also be distracting, instead of giving a cohesive look to the design story.
However, there are designers who say that when done well, an accent wall can elevate the vibe of the space. Some caveats:
- don’t make the accent wall color clash with the rest of the room’s color palette
- make sure your accent wall design is part of the design story of the space
- don’t ignore your home’s architecture
You also can use other materials aside from paint. You can go for wood, which is great for giving that organic feel in your home. You can also use wallpaper, again as long as it does not veer away from your design story.
Leather Sofas
Leather sofas are hard to maintain in a tropical climate. The high humidity can cause problems like mold and mildew. Most probably, discoloration and deterioration of the leather can happen. You have to put it in a place in your home away from the sunlight. If you don’t use an air condition, chances are you’re going to feel warm, especially where your skin touches the leather, and you will sweat.
Raise your hand if you witnessed problems with your leather shoes and bags after the 17-month lockdown.
Even if your home temperature is controlled at a comfortable cool level, leather sofas seem to be still out of favor. There’s special mention of chesterfield sofas and man caves too!
The Color Grey
Many designers are moving away from the cool greys that were so popular for more than a decade. Surprisingly though, Gen Z seems to prefer greys. The reason given is that they want to avoid the sienna and ochre of their parents’ homes.
The darling hue for the past year is beige. It’s warmer than grey, lighter than ochre and sienna, and just a lovely light neutral that can work with most colors. It wouldn’t be such a stretch to welcome the Pantone Color of 2025 Mocha Mousse, which is described by the firm as “capturing a global mood of connection comfort, and harmony.” We all can get behind that, right? More about Pantone’s color next week.
Japandi and Scandi interior styles, which are still favored by many, go well with beige. #Teamputi can tone down their blinding whites to a softer tint. But if your heart still beats for white, Boysen has so many. Just choose one that does not have a blue tint, and you should be fine.
There are so many more interior design no-nos, like barn doors, fake grass, or taxidermy. I’ve left them out because we don’t usually make use of those in our homes here in the Philippines. So, the word from interior designers is to consider all these tips in your home makeover this coming year. Although, I would still advise you to take all these with a grain of salt. I’m a firm believer in live and let live, definitely for something like designing a home for yourself. So shush everybody if you like, and just listen to your own voice.
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