Wallpaper trends 2025
Sissa Sundling, Head of Design at Boråstapeter, highlights three top interior design trends for 2025.
The Colour Love trend leans into an expressive, colourful maximalism. Next up, in Force of Nature, green is trending as THE wallpaper colour. Yellow, in shades of pale mellow yellow, honey and ochre, is also back, exquisitely offsetting the greens. Room for Rest is suffused with balanced, calm colours inspired by the spa and yoga scene. The vibe is all about simplicity and creating a soothing backdrop to the rest of the décor.
Colour Love
The mood in this trend is expressive, happy and colourful.
Interiors are cosy with features like painted door frames and woodwork, with flounced fabrics to stage the warm, playful, joyful vibe. Keys to this trend are play with hues and colour combinations on all interior surfaces, with naive florals and graphic patterns.
“Playful colourways, naive and bold patterns, and decorative details.”
With dynamic lines and spontaneous interactions between colours and patterns, but still with a balanced feel. Here, striped and floral patterns are playfully juxtaposed. Bright red, honey yellow, maroon and klein blue are some of the colours featuring in the trending palette, ideally in different combinations with each other.
From focusing on a few bright accents, we’re dressing entire home spaces in colour, in eye-candy combinations like understated red-brown on a wall as the backdrop to an ultramarine klein blue chair, or a soft yellow contrasting with bright green.
Force of Nature
Green is the top wallpaper colour for 2025.
From soft linden blossom shades to dark forest greens. Yellows too in shades of light mellow yellow, honey and ochre are back, exquisitely offset by the greens.
The grounding for this trend is harnessing nature’s own energy and blurring the line between indoors and outdoors. In this trend, we’re seeing wallpapers adorned with roses and edible plants to tie in with the biophilic nature theme, where the watchword is sustainability.
“Blurring the line between indoors and outdoors with lush plants and natural materials.”
Where the focus before was on selected accents, this year, nature comes into its own in interiors with large lush plants and natural materials like stone, wood and woven linen textures given pride of place in home interiors.
Room for Rest
Creates soothing, pared-down settings for rest and recovery.
The longing to press pause and leave a stressful world outside has given impetus to the concept of the wellness room and healing room. Cocooning at home with ample scope for rest and recovery is a happening trend
embracing calm, zen colours inspired by the spa and yoga scene. The vibe is all about simplicity and creating a soothing backdrop to the rest of the décor. Key elements in this trend are natural materials, pale wood, white on white, tactile and organic elements, and contemporary, nature-inspired craftsmanship.
“Balanced colours, natural materials and minimalistdesign.”
Warm walls are gaining ground in shades of beige, linen, yellow and cream. The new trend blends in colours as a soothing base, embracing calm patterns, too.
