We spend a lot of time in our houses, and if every room is a perfect mix of us and how we live, we can really relax and enjoy moments with family and friends.
Designing rooms that feel like you can be difficult and sometimes overwhelming. Should you follow the trends or carve your own way? Many people have to struggle with exactly this question, but it is clear that local design experts have the word “trend” in the course of 2025 and in 2026.
A room, several purposes
In the work movement in recent years, many homeowners have been living in work areas. Recently, the shift has become to create multi -purpose spaces that benefit from space -saving design elements with a double purpose.
“There are many hybrid things,” says Henrietta Heisler from Henrietta Heisler Interiors in Lancaster. “Rooms can be used for more than one thing. I had a few inquiries about Murphy beds!”
Murphy beds are increasing more and more popular because they are more convenient than sofa beds and in a wall or console are properly hidden and convert an additional sleeping area for guests.
David Lyall by David Lyall Home & Design in Lancaster says that he sees formal living room converted in rooms, such as: B. a relaxed work area with a large, beautiful table and padded chairs in which children can do homework.
“It is still a room that can be beautiful and still a room that can be the entrance to the house but has a purpose,” he says.
For Melissa Hess, from HomeBylymelissa from Denver, an important part of the discovery process with her customers is to look around and think in your room: “How can it work better for me?” She says that she designed a beautiful room that not only works optimally, but that her homeowners do not want to go is a driving motivation for her.
Hear the unique and minimize the trends
A shifting of the interior was a turn towards unique and heirloom. This marriage of meaningful pieces with more modern elements creates varied and highly personalized living rooms.
“My homeowners love this great shift in mass producers,” says Hess. “We include heirs. We hug the inheritance. We hug our passions and collections.”
Heisler says she has also noticed that people surround or add unique pieces to their decor.
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“I like some of the brave and unique hardware that is now available,” says Heisler. “There are some amazing door knobs and hinges that are really so special.”
When it comes to following the current design trends, Lyall gives the following advice: “I really encourage and direct my customers, really, really, a classic and timeless basis.”
Choose elements “that have no time stamp on themselves, something that will pass the time of time in 30 years,” he says. “Where I introduce trends are in things that can be easily edited.”
If you want to add trendy design styles in your home, Lyall suggests choosing litter cushions and other decorative accessories that can easily exchange ideas over the street when changing these trends.
Hess makes this argument to her homeowners: “It is what your toes directs. I don't care that it was yesterday,” she says. “We will choose. I really have the feeling that one of the biggest trends is personalized, adapted and is not afraid to be individual.”
Color and pattern as you like it
This year, color makes an explanation with home owners who choose rich jewel tones and earthy mineral colors, especially in blue and green families, as accents and environments.
There was also a return to more neutral colors, with the most popular very neutral meat tones, says Heisler.
Benjamin Moores classic Gray is a well -founded color for Lyall.
“It is a color that is like a no-color. It is no white, it's not gray, it is not a beige,” he says. “(It is) a kind of inconspicuous tone that creates a great initial layer of building, but it is warm and inviting and feels very natural.”
It is not only pattern, but also color, says Hess. “People learn not to be afraid of patterns and mixtures,” she says, noting that their customers are dizzy, that they can mix colors and patterns to create rooms that feel original and exciting.
Comfort and durability
If one thing is safe, it is the case that homeowners make decisions that match a “soft, simple lifestyle”, says Heisler.
Lyall says he sees the desire to use handmade or manual materials such as tiles for a more natural, unique feeling. He also noticed a movement to lighter, lighter and more natural wooden floors.
“It creates a nice contrast to carpets, fabric parts, upholstery and reflects the light, which looks larger,” says Lyall. “From the point of view of maintenance, with these lighter floors, you see no dust or crumbs or, you know, small fur babies.”
Lyall says that he also gets more inquiries about heated soils, especially in areas such as Mudrooms in which people have pets so that everyone can come from the cold and be comfortable.
Houses are tailored to our lifestyle and there is clearly durability. Heisler has customers with dogs and children, and although natural floors are beautiful, the more durable and more affordable option is vinyl floors, she says.
“At the end of the day,” says Hess, “it is important to me that people take care of their houses and their rooms because our quality of life is directly influenced by the way we live in our houses.”
Small changes, big difference
If you believe that your living space needs a change, but does not have the budget for a large -scale redesign, consider how small changes can make a difference, the experts say.
“We could go out now and in 10 minutes we can make a few important changes in our houses, our second skin that will improve our quality of life,” says Hess.
If you come home for a few hours, you can give the instructions to improve your living rooms. For small budgets, Lyall says: “I can take five hours outside of the day, and we will take in and take what you have and I will give some really strong recommendations on how you can reinterpret what you already have.”
Don't be overwhelmed
Hess says that people tend to be over -saturated by influence and images on social media and to lose sight of what is most important: What makes us love our space? “First and foremost,” she says, “it is that it works for the people who live in it.”
This means that the biggest trend of the year seems to be to create a living space that for whom they are, their lifestyle and what they really feel at home.
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