Colour Trends 2025

Another High Point Furniture Market adventure is in the books!

Kathryn and I drove over 12 hours south of the border, from Toronto to North Carolina before meeting up with our design friends at an Air BNB located about 20 minutes from the hustle and bustle that is Highpoint Market.

The stunning, scenic landscape at this time of year always makes the drive more bearable and believe it or not, enjoyable!

The abundance of warm colors we encountered in the autumn leaves, signaling the change of seasons in the West Virginia mountains, hinted at one of the most dominant and noticeable trends at this year’s Fall Furniture Market.

Before we dive into the latest interior design trends and plenty of eye candy to inspire ideas for your next decorating project, I want to give the following shout-out.

Thank You to Sarah Daniele from Mydoma, Maddie, and Jenny from IDS National for inviting me to speak on a panel, and to Unique Loom for hosting the event in their beautiful showroom.

It’s always a pleasure to share insights with others in the industry on the strategies I’ve learned and developed over the past 13 years of running a successful interior design firm.

This is also largely in part as to why I’ve been a business coach for nearly 8 years. I love teaching and empowering others!

While what we do may look like ‘fun’, (and make no mistake, at Market especially, we definitely have fun!) there’s a lot to know and so much that goes on behind the scenes of running an interior design firm that isn’t very glamorous.

If you are a designer or decorator, be sure to take advantage of the helpful, free business resources I have available here.

Maybe you have a passion for all things colour and design related and are considering a career in the interior design industry. Feel free to take a peek at my business blog articles here.

Goodbye Gray, Hello Warmth

Gray is officially stepping aside as warm, inviting hues make their return. Hooray!!

I took the photo above with samples from my design studio to show a round-up of the main colours I saw in the showrooms at Highpoint.

Out of the bunch, the most popular color of the show by far, was a rich rust tone. It’s a slightly deeper and more moody take on the classic terracotta.

This color is a reflection of the changing shift toward earth tones, which are more grounding, and calming than the previously popular grays, bright whites, and cool blues we’ve seen so much of over the past 12 years.

You may remember from this Highpoint colour trends post I wrote that Terracotta also made a big return in 2022.

It didn’t really take off then though, so it will be interesting to see if people warm to it more this time around.

I had our custom basement bar painted in a deep red tone by Farrow & Ball about 4 years ago and created a warm colour palette of greens and browns in the design.

I love the look, it’s a cozy space and great for entertaining guests. And, all these colours are what was trending at Highpoint.

You can see my colourful basement project here.

Trending Tones: Olive, Cognac, and Mustard

Other popular earth tones seen around the various Highpoint showrooms were deep shades of green, classic cognac, and various shades of deep yellows.

The image below shows more muted tones of similar colours presented in a different, more classic design aesthetic.

This was the first time that I can recall seeing so many similar colours at market to those announced as part of the recent Benjamin Moore‘s Colour Trends for 2025.

Just look at how the striped fabric on this chair showcases so many of these colours! And, don’t they look fantastic together?

Whether you agree or disagree, comment at the end of this post to share if you are happy to see the return of warm colours in interior design.

Bouclé, Black, and Gold

We continued to see a lot of white bouclé fabric used for many upholstered pieces like sofas and chairs.

Bouclé was the prominent fabric for many vendor displays a couple of years ago, it was everywhere -so much so that the trending hashtag for that Highpoint market was #boucléallday.

The same striped, velvet fabric from the chair shown above was also used on two of the accent pillows on this white bouclé sofa, with similar colours repeated in the artwork above.

In the foreground of that living room display, you can see gold on the stems of the oversized apple accessories.

Below, there is a gold band on the bottom of the accent chair with the white bouclé backing and cognac suede seat.

Gold accents are still going strong and made a return at the same time I started my career as a Burlington Interior Decorator in 2011.

If you thought that soft gold finishes were a trend, I can assure you, they are not or else I wouldn’t have approved the hardware selection for this online client’s kitchen design.

Black accessories such as lamps and other light fixtures were also frequently featured in living room displays.

I am personally not a big fan of all-black accessories, especially since black is being overused everywhere in interior design at the minute.

This artwork below is a perfect depiction of this fall market’s trending color palette in a single piece, including the black frame with gold nailheads.

Oh, dang, I never had a chance to tell you about the undeniable return of the nailheads yet!

We’ll save that for my next blog post where I focus on Design Trends from Highpoint. Stay tuned.

Until then, don’t be boring…

Are you loving the warmer earth tones and want to bring more of these colours into your home decor?

Check out a previous blog post I wrote about Mid-Century Modern Design Style and related Perfect Colour Palettes here that I curated using colours from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams and Farrow & Ball.

If Boho Casual is more your style, click here to see those Paint Palettes and blog post, they are also worth checking out to get you excited for your next design project.

Is decorating with white more your style?

Don’t miss my top five white trending paint colour series from Benjamin Moore here.