What will 2024 bring? For starters, there’s going to be an election. Companies will try to bring employees back to the office, and employees will continue to resist. Social media isn’t likely to get any quieter.

Just as there are trends in society, there are trends in interior design! Some will be a continuation of fashions that have been building for a few years, while others will establish new directions. Here’s a look at some of the interior design trends 2024 will bring.

Natural Living

A few years ago, most people hadn’t heard the word “biophilia,” but now it’s part of every interior design vocabulary! Biophilia is the human tendency to be attracted to and associated with nature. Biophilic design, or nature-inspired design, has been near the top of every designer’s list for several years, and it promises to remain there. One reason is consumer demand for environmentally responsible products. Another is the tendency for the modern world, with its technology and its demands for screen time, to pull us further from nature than we’d like.

Read our Biophilic Design Ideas blog.

Homes will continue to bring the outdoors inside! That might mean lightweight curtains, repositioning furniture and the strategic placement of mirrors to gain more natural light. It entails decorating with the colors of nature, including the liberal use of live plants. It implies an interest in natural materials such as leather, wool, wood, stone, pottery and rattan as well as sisal and jute for rugs.

Curvilinear Design

Nature prefers curves to straight lines, and 2024’s interior designers do, too! The trend showed up in interior living room design trends with curved chairs and sofas, and now it’s finding its way into all kinds of furniture and decor. There are curved cabinets, coffee tables and side tables. With curvilinear pieces, the silhouette is as important as the color and pattern!

The trend extends to accessories and decor! Curvy lamps provide not just for light but also decoration. Long sinuous pendants are drawing interest. The latest mirrors feature complex curved shapes that go beyond circles and ovals. Area rugs in irregular rounded shapes are on trend. Rounded tabletop decor is another addition to the curvaceous interior design repertoire.

Get more Rounded and Curvy Furniture ideas.

Dopamine Design

Dopamine in our brains makes us feel food, and dopamine design is anything that makes us happy just by existing in our home! It includes bright colors, amusing patterns and anything playful that makes us smile.

Examples include bold geometrics, outsize floral prints, abstract patterns and combining colors that are opposites, such as yellow with purple or blue with orange. It includes choosing items that you love, such as vintage pieces or sculptural furniture. Even if you start small with a few quirky decor items, you’ll get a little dopamine boost whenever you look at them!

Read our Dopamine Décor Aesthetic blog.

Colors Both Sophisticated and Bold

One major direction is toward soft blacks and multiple shades of gray, but there are several other colors clamoring for a place in 2024’s palette! For example, you’ll see retro shades such as mustard, avocado and olive.

Black and gray are elegant, but other colors can help them be less serious. Indigo, with its moodiness that contrasts with gray, is on many lists this year. Lots of rooms will bear a multi toned motif. Sometimes there will be a subtle contrast. Other people may embrace the dopamine tendency and choose bright contrasting colors that pop. Continued interest in Barbie may keep pink a popular pick. If you like that color, why not!

Integrating the Home Office

During the pandemic, people set up their home offices any way they could manage, even if they consisted of a laptop on the kitchen table and a cardboard box full of file folders. Since WFH isn’t going away, offices are being designed as a permanent part of the home.

Those fortunate enough to have a dedicated office room are matching the design style of the space to the rest of the home, be it traditional, contemporary, modern or rustic. That might mean office furniture that doesn’t look so “office-y,” for example, a writing desk instead of an office desk with a hutch, a plush four-legged chair on wheels as opposed to a metal-framed desk chair or storage tables instead of file cabinets. The nouveau office could include chairs or loveseats, and the sort of decor, wall art and lamps that are suitable for a living room. It’s a space for conversation with visitors as much as a place to work! Add a daybed or futon, and it doubles as a guest room that doesn’t feel like the workplace.

If space constraints require your office to be fitted into the living room or bedroom, the same ideas apply! When the virtual whistle blows at the end of your shift, you can clean your desk, top it with some decor, hide your papers in a table and forget about work until the next day. The downside of the WFH revolution is that many of us feel we’re always on call, but a homelike office does wonders for work-life balance!

Read our Finding Balance with WFH blog.

Interior Design for Fun and Happiness

A common thread of 2024 interior design trends is things that make us feel good! Biophilic design is refreshing for body, mind and spirit. Curved furniture is a relaxing delight to the eyes. Dopamine decor is an appeal to the “feel-good” part of our brains. Whichever of the 2024 vogues you choose to adopt, you’re sure to wind up being happier about the home you live in!