16 Home Trends That Will Dominate in 2024
Are binging YouTube videos on the latest design trends vital to your existence? If you pride yourself on keeping up with cutting-edge style, knowing what’s in vogue tops your priority list.
Trends change frequently, some withstanding the test of time, while others are more fleeting. Each year, designers predict what styles and design choices will dominate and which will fizzle. We decided to save you the trouble of scrolling through hours and hours of pins.
After looking at what’s happening in contemporary home design, several elements pop up over and over again. We honed in on these repeaters to populate this list. Here are 16 of the most popular home trends for 2024.
1. Layer Prints
Play with different prints and patterns when designing your home in 2024. There's no rule about picking one style and sticking with it.
Instead, layer prints to create delightful combinations, like classic stripes with a whimsical polka dot. Don't stop with patterns. Mix and match various textures and materials to add interest and dimension to your design scheme.
2. Use Reds, Browns, and Plums
The Pantone color of the year for 2024 is Peach Fuzz, but the bigger takeaway is that color trends are leaning toward warmer tones. Shades of brown, red, and deep plum dominate spaces, from cozy bedrooms to bold, inviting living rooms.
Experiment with a few hues using samples to find the one that works best in your space. However, paint isn't the only way to introduce trending colors. Be intentional with furniture and accessories when developing your home's color story.
3. Incorporate Bespoke Items
In 2024, we’re seeing a more definite shift from filling homes with mass-produced items that clutter big-box stores and stale furniture showrooms. These pieces are okay in moderation, but today, design is all about infusing your space with personality.
Bespoke items are an excellent way to make your space stand out from copy-and-paste style. Handmade pieces enable you to elevate your home using personal touches that create a truly unique space.
4. Create a Space That’s Yours
Scrolling through Instagram or poking around Pinterest are great ways to find design inspiration. However, a dominating home trend of 2024 is focusing on what you love instead of following the crowd.
If you love bright colors and funky patterns, use them in your space. However, if neutral is more your vibe, that's okay, too. The best design tip is to embrace your sense of style and create a space that is uniquely yours.
5. Use Mid-Tone Woods
For the longest time, gray wood overwhelmed homes, showing up on floors, cabinets, and furniture. There was also a period of obsession with extremely dark woods.
However, in 2024, we're seeing design preferences gravitate toward more natural wood tones. Choose wood flooring and furniture that lets its natural color shine through to warm up your space.
6. Say Hello to Silver
Over the past several years, design influencers seemed to shun silver, embracing warmer-toned metals like gold and brass. However, classic chrome, brushed nickel, and similar silver shades never really left the design world.
If you love silver, you love it all the way, no matter what die-hard design aficionados tell you. The good news is that silver is becoming a hot topic. More and more homeowners are incorporating it into their homes through fixtures, hardware, and other home accessories.
7. Pare Down Pillows
Piling on a bunch of pillows was the gold standard for years when it came to making your home feel cozy and inviting. However, there’s truth in the saying — less is more.
When there are too many pillows on your sofa, you can’t sit comfortably. Who wants to spend 20 minutes removing cushions and bolsters off their bed every night? Edit your pillow inventory down to a more manageable number to achieve a simpler look that maintains an inviting spirit.
8. Let Nature Be Your Guide
Stress finds a way into everyone’s lives via busy work schedules, looming deadlines, and the fruitless pursuit of work-life balance. But immersing yourself in nature, enjoying the simple beauty of a sunset, or relaxing in an enchanted garden brings inner peace.
Therefore, a popular home trend for 2024 is pulling the outdoors in through plants, natural textures, and nature-inspired colors. Take a peek outside your window and let it inspire the direction of your design.
9. Go Big and Bold
Neutrals have their place in design, but in 2024, it’s about stepping out of your comfort zone in all areas of your life. Be bold, see what you’re capable of, and extend that brave energy to your home’s design plan.
Try bright colors or moody, dramatic tones on walls. Select a quirky print for your living room curtains. Wallpaper the ceiling. If it makes sense with your overall plan and you love it, then dare to design big.
10. Bid Farewell to Fast Furniture
Understandably, fast furniture finds its way into many spaces thanks to its affordability and availability. However, nowadays, people are becoming more conscious of the footprint they leave on the planet.
Plus, cookie-cutter furniture goes against the design trend of standing out and showing off your unique style. Therefore, in 2024, break away from the temptation of fast furniture. Look for more curated pieces in vintage boutiques or a local flea market, or upcycle a fun find from your favorite thrift shop.
11. Showcase Your Collections
Minimalism reigned as the top design style for years as people wanted to push back against consumerism and also thirsted for a simpler, calmer life. However, there are many different faces to living a minimalist lifestyle.
Today, the idea of embracing minimalism has shifted from living with less to living with only the things you love. In other words, everything adds value to your life in some way. This idea includes proudly displaying your favorite collection, whether it's salt shakers or bottle caps.
12. Give Color Drenching a Try
If your primary desire for your home’s aura is one of calm, subtle style, then this 2024 home trend is for you. Color drenching, or color washing, a room involves making everything in the space a shade, tone, or tint of the same color.
In other words, it’s using a monochromatic color scheme. Imagine light blue walls, a slightly darker shade of blue on the rug, and a deep navy sofa with cool blue curtains in the background. When done well, color-washing a room can also visually enlarge a space.
13. Embrace Quiet Luxury
Do you know those influencers who show you their latest trip in a private jet or their brand-new Rolex? These are examples of showy, flashy displays of luxury (that often aren’t all they seem to be).
A refreshing change of pace for 2024 is relishing quiet luxury. Quiet luxury celebrities are a more subdued, sophisticated retrospective. This goes hand in hand with stepping away from fast furniture in favor of higher-quality pieces, focusing on quality over quantity.
14. Evoke English Cottage Style
A current design style you’ll likely see more of in 2024 is English Cottage, which focuses on evoking a warm, inviting ambiance. Stripes, plaids, gingham, and florals are some patterns that define this style.
Other examples are weathered brick walls or exposed beams for a more rustic look. Focus on comfy, plush furniture, natural materials, a cozy fireplace, and vintage treasures that deliver a lived-in feel.
15. Have Fun with Wallpaper
Wallpaper has been timidly making its way back into mainstream design for a while now. However, in 2024, it’s finally throwing open the doors and taking center stage.
Whether you want to paper an entire room or give your closet a makeover, wallpaper offers a way to express yourself. There are so many patterns, colors, and styles to choose from, so select a few samples to find the perfect pick for your space.
16. Use Unique Lighting
Bid farewell to boring builder-grade light fixtures and the obligatory lights that seem to haunt homes everywhere. It’s common for people to treat lighting as an afterthought when they design their spaces.
You focus all your attention on color choices, furniture, curtains, and accessories. But lighting is an excellent way to elevate your design. Look for unique pieces and vintage fixtures that augment your home’s aesthetic and give it that designer look.
