The Top Home Décor Trends for Fall 2025

To make your home ready for Fall 2025, you’ll be delighted to know that many of today’s top decorating trends are all about coziness and comfort—just what you want to surround yourself with for cooler weather.

So why are comfort and coziness a thing all of a sudden? Home design is always evolving, borrowing from the past and looking toward the future. Except for Boho, décor has lately been more about executing a popular and easily identifiable style like 20^th Century modernism than reflecting the homeowner’s personality and heritage. The best-known of these styles are minimalism and mid-century modern which are slowly giving way to highly personalized cottage-like comfort, color and curated heirlooms.

But, don’t throw out your futuristic egg chair just yet. You can transition at your own pace and taste level by introducing a few elements to enhance your home.

­Less is more

Less is more, the mantra of minimalism, means adopting a simpler lifestyle devoid of materialistic consumerism. How minimalism translates to décor is that rooms, furniture and objects are stripped to their “core function,” with limited materials (steel, wood, stone, glass), neutral colors, simple forms, clean lines, natural light, and lack of clutter. Walls are bare or hold a single large statement abstract painting, neutral-colored fabrics become more interesting with lots of texture, bookcases are curated with only a few books and one sculpture, and kitchens look cleaner without upper cabinets. Instead of focal points and collectibles, minimalism encourages fine quality fabrications like marble countertops (with little pattern) and high-concept custom furniture. Views are prioritized through walls of windows and clipped garden greenery adds a little color in elegant clear glass vases to help bring the outdoors in.

Mid-century modern décor also champions simple forms, clean lines, and lack of clutter, but offers more in the way of color and a touch of playfulness in furniture, appliances and floors. Think turquoise iceboxes and orange leather seats on teakwood dining room chairs. While minimalism doesn’t depend on designs from the past, mid-century modern décor is very much tied to the low-slung ceilings and office-like furnishings of the 1930s – 60s. To keep the look contemporary, include a nod to the past with a few valuable collectibles like the Nelson Marshmallow sofa, the Eames Lounge Chair and matching foot rest, or the Noguchi Coffee Table. Because artists were so prominent in contemporary design, mid-century modern décor is the perfect showcase for modern art. Any collector would love to have a painting by Hyperrealism forerunner David Hockney or Swedish abstract pioneer Hilma af Klint, or a playful print by Pop Art visionary Andy Warhol.

As with minimalism, there are elements that you won’t see in mid-century modern homes—curtains are rarely used; fabric tends to be solid with little to no print, and beds, chairs and sofas do not have skirts or embellishments like trim or tassels.

More is more

Just as 20^th century modernism was a backlash against the fussy, stuffy, and overly formal Victorian era, there’s a growing nostalgia for décor that’s a feast for the eyes—plush, colorful, and pattern-rich. The strongest trend toward maximalism (more is more) is expressed through vintage English Country and Cottagecore styles.

English Country, not to be confused with the plainer, rustic American farmhouse style, is charming, traditional, and detailed. Geometrics and abstracts helped define modernism, but English Country is the opposite—round or curved lines; tufted, embellished upholstery; treasured heirlooms; mixed floral and other classic fabric and wallpaper patterns; and lots of layers, textures and colors. Period furniture is painted, stained or distressed to add the patina of age.

The overall look is unabashedly romantic, like a setting from a Jane Austen novel. The Romantic movement was founded in the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries with the belief that passion, intuition and emotions were as important to understanding the world as logic, order and science. This period that encompassed the American and French Revolutions, was all about liberty and individual expression, and is still beloved for its contributions to music (Beethoven, Chopin), art (Goya, Delacroix), poetry (Byron, Coleridge, Shelley) and literature (Hugo, Dickens, the Brontë sisters).

Among the many elements you’ll find in English Country décor are:

·         Exteriors with multiple gables and steepled roofs

·         Ivy covered exterior walls

·         Exposed beamed ceilings

·         Arched windows and doors

·         Bookshelves and reading nooks

·         Toile, Chinoiserie and floral fabrics, wallpapers and accents

·         Silhouette and ancestor portraits

·         Idyllic pastoral art

·         Woodburning fireplaces with decorative mantels

·         Baroque mirrors

·         Chesterfield wingback chairs with ottomans

·         Muraled ceilings

·         Vintage military prints

·         Writing tables with inkwells

·         Velvet and other fine textiles

·         White linen bedding

Cottagecore can be considered the simpler, less-gentrified version of English Cottage Also known as Farmcore and Countrycore, Cottagecore characteristics are closer to American farmhouse décor and feature natural colors like white, beige, cream, and other neutral tones. Furniture is rough-hewn and rustic in nature, and upholstery tends to be textured rather than patterned with upscale florals or toile.

Modern Cotttagecore is the perfect way to transition from a more minimal esthetic, as it’s more streamlined, but features pops of color like Mid-century Modern. Using high-end vintage pieces and some modern elements, Modern Cottagecore is the perfect décor to repair and upcycle found treasures at flea markets and antique stores.

There are many ways to create a warm, inviting environment for fall without completely redecorating your home.

Emphasize texture: Keep in mind that textured fabric, woven straw baskets and caned furniture look better in soft colors that don’t compete with the pile, weave, or workmanship of the piece. Add a collection of pillows to your sofa and drape a chunky knit over the arm.

Lower the contrast: The further apart two colors are in depth and temperature, like black and white, the higher the contrast. Colors for fall are more subdued and closer together in value. Try soft, muted colors with warmth, like cream or beige instead of stark white.

Strive for informal elegance: Combine formal and informal elements to create interest, like tying silverware together with twine at a semi-formal place setting, allowing candles to burn down, putting fresh flowers into plain glass vases, and allowing drapes to puddle on the floor.

Informal elegance is relaxed, not perfect.