The major paint companies may have already named their colours of the year in the last quarter of 2024, but it was only a glimpse of what’s to come on the home trends front.  

First stop: maximalism, which isn’t going anywhere. When the more-is-more aesthetic first appeared on the design scene about seven years ago, it was in response to years of minimalist spaces that had come to feel devoid of personality. Excess arrived for the sake of excess. But the trend has evolved. Now “(it’s) much more about charm and personality, a mix of vintage and new,” used together to make a space feel personal, says Arren Williams, designer, interiors stylist and co-founder of Casa Cubista. One aspect that Williams is drawn to is the very British trend of colour-drenching a space, adding layers of colour, pattern and texture. “This style of decorating has really mashed up with Southern U.S. decorating style where it has always been layered, over the top, chockful of colour, pattern-on-pattern, skirts on things. Skirts are huge now. They are literally on everything.”