3 Design Trends to Consider if Selling – Shared Article

Home design is embracing the “comfort” theme for 2025—a perfect style to adopt when prepping a home for sale.

Color, texture and patterns are making for more playful backgrounds in unique, cozy spaces. In home staging, you can still embrace this hot trend, even without getting too wild. Here’s how.

1. Color Is Back

Say goodbye to cold, stark white walls as real estate agents and home sellers embrace statement-worthy colors that can add warmth and texture to unexpected places around the home. Color is being used for accent walls, kitchen islands and even the fifth wall—the ceiling.

Need some inspiration for color pops? The paint firm Sherwin-Williams offers nine paint “Colors of the Year” for 2025, ranging from caramel browns to earthy yellows. Also, welcome back more earth tones, especially brown hues, which can feel timeless and grounding.

Photo courtesy: Sherwin-Williams / 2025 Color Capsule of the Year: Bosc Pear

Photo courtesy: Sherwin-Williams / 2025 Color Capsule of the Year: Grounded

While you’re ditching the whites or grays, swap them out for warm beiges, which is a more trendy, neutral paint color for staging a home.

2. Design for Wellness

The post-COVID world has inspired us to seek dedicated spaces for wellness within our homes to unwind and recharge. Think small yoga studios, meditation rooms, spa-like bathrooms, hot saunas and even cold plunges.

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Soft rugs, aromatic candles, soothing music and adjustable lighting can lighten the mood and bring potential calming, psychological benefits.

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Further, entire communities are using the wellness trend to attract home buyers. An urbanistic community south of Atlanta, called Serenbe, markets wellness-related amenities for those who desire stronger connections to nature. For example, the community touts its acres of preserved forests and miles of nature trails, as well as a 25-acre farm that produces more than 300 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers for residents.

3. Texture Explosion

Plain walls are a thing of the past, as textured surfaces are adding depth and interest to a home’s spaces. Wallpapered ceilings, wood paneling and decorative plaster finishes are transforming flat surfaces into dynamic focal points.

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Also, the trend toward nature-inspired design is incorporating more stones, wood and natural fibers for adding more texture into a home. Further, indoor plants, living walls and natural materials can play a dominant role in helping to make a formal space feel more relaxed and approachable.

Overall, interior design in 2025 is shifting to fit our lifestyles. And that’s playing out in a bigger way in staging a home, too. Home buyers likely won’t be convinced by flat, uninspiring surfaces or rooms. Instead, showcase textured elements, wellness design and warm colors that give the walls a sense of security and warmth, and welcomes buyers right in.

Photo credit: Melissa Tracey

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