21 Design Trends That Are About to Be Huge
At House Beautiful, we know there’s no better source of inspiration than a home designed by a talented interior designer. So how about one designed by 21 of them? For the sixth iteration of the Kips Bay Showhouse Palm Beach, 21 talented designers and firms joined forces to transform a Mediterranean-style villa overlooking the water in West Palm Beach. And, unsurprisingly, inspiration abounds. Click through to see the space—and the trend takeaways we’re predicting.
Big spaces that feel cozy
Pictured above.
Despite the palatial nature of the home’s living room, Amanda Lindroth managed to bring things down to scale with a smart layout that creates multiple zones.
Two back-to-back sofas provide plenty of space for guests to converge while splitting the seating areas in two for a cozier feel. To make the massive fireplace appear less hulking, Lindroth covered it with a painted tortoise-shell pattern and textural planters.
Home offices that work overtime
Why design an all-business home office when you could have one that doubles as a cocktail lounge when you’re off the clock? Lucy Doswell created a layered, textural space in a moody shade of dark green that works equally as a serious backdrop for work hours and a sumptuous setting for nightcaps.
Pretty utilities
Here’s your cue to give your laundry room an upgrade: David Frazier turned a blah utility space into a work of art with wallpaper, skirting, honed countertops, and framed nature prints. Now, who says folding clothes has to be boring?
Contrast hardware
Riffing off the wallpaper in the kitchen, Christopher Peacock paired custom cabinetry in light oak with bluish-gray pulls. The hardware matches the painted cabinetry, creating a subtle contrast.
Texture, texture, texture
The first rule of creating a beige room is it’s got to have lots of texture to keep it from feeling bland. Luckily, Danielle Rollins understood the assignment with this sitting area that marries stone walls with rattan, jute, coral, shells, linen, and silk for a textural feast with a limited palette.
A new use for shutters
Sure, you could surround your canopy bed with fabric—or you could enclose it in shutters like Eneia White did in this beach cabana-inspired room. “It’s like an adult fort,” explains the designer, who swathed the hinged shutters in a shade of pale sage Benjamin Moore paint.
Indoor trellis
Now that houseplants have fully taken over the design world (including this showhouse!), it seems like we’re ready to bring another element of the garden indoors: the trellis. With its geometric design, a trellis can act like a kind of 3D wallpaper, adding dimension to walls or even ceilings. In this room by Amy Studebaker, it’s the perfect companion to flowery wallpaper by Soane Britain.
Updated colors on classic patterns
Mabley Handler also used trellis to draw the eye up in this bedroom. The tropical wall hanging from Gracie feels traditional in style, yet thoroughly current with a moody, saturated palette that seems classic Florida. Pinks and greens are swapped for mauve and sage, while beige rattan is eschewed for a cool gray roping on the bed.
Clever drapery
The unsung hero of interior design, curtains aren’t just for windows. Here, Delia Kenza uses lush silk drapery to cleverly conceal an unsightly elevator door and tie into the palette of the Gucci wallpaper on the other walls of the second-floor foyer.
Curved sofas
When faced with limited square footage, you may be tempted to opt for small-scale seating that fits neatly into a corner. But as Errez Design Group proves here, a slight curve adds much more depth. Plus, this serpentine shape helps guide flow through the narrow space.
Fully furnished patios
Yes, your terrace needs a chandelier . . . and anything else you’d put in your living room, as Honey Collins proves with this exterior space complete with a sofa, dining table, bar, lighting, art, and rugs. There's nary a plastic chair in sight.
Statement ceilings
While we love a bold wallpaper, sometimes the best place for pattern is the ceiling. With the walls covered in a smart closet system by California Closets, Katherine Shenaman affixed a Lee Jofa wallpaper to the ceiling, directing the eye upwards, adding a whimsical element, and connecting to the palette of the adjacent room.
Personalized design details
The de Gournay wallpaper in this bedroom by Katie Ridder is based on a 1920s fabric pattern of Syrie Maugham’s—but Ridder added a personal touch. The wallcovering is dotted with bluebirds, which are local to West Palm Beach, for a built-in memento featuring the ultimate bespoke detail.
High-tech bathrooms
You use a touchpad for everything else. Why not your shower? Palladino Rudd created the bathroom of the future, with a Kohler shower that operates with the touch of a streamlined control panel.
Cocoon-like spaces
Another clever take on a canopy bed, Megan Grehl’s bedroom design includes a curtain on a rounded track around the room’s perimeter, which can be pulled shut to ensconce the oversized alabaster bed.
Warm woods
Whoever said brown furniture was “out” is eating their words, as we’re seeing love for warm woods everywhere, like in this blue living room by Scott Sanders, where a wooden bookshelf paired with vintage rattan chair warm up the ocean-inspired blues.
Eclectic mixing
We were never a fan of matching sets, but we’re fully embracing a wide-ranging mix now, as exemplified in this sitting room by Steven Mooney, which blends 1970s-style lucite, Asian antiques, pickled wood, chintz, and scenic wallpaper to brilliant effect.
Layered carpets
More is more when it comes to carpets, where layers can serve to delineate multiple zones, add coziness, and provide texture. We love this example by Studio Thomas James, where a Schumacher alligator appears to be winding down a dramatic black runner, with custom scallop trim.
Coastal everywhere
Though coral as decor is commonplace in Florida, Dallas designer Lindley Arthur proclaims “I use it everywhere—even Texas!” Last year, we called the trend of so-called seashell-core, and we’re doubling down: Coastal elements on mirrors, candlesticks, and bookshelves are here to stay.
All white al fresco
While we’re going colorful inside, it seems the best place for an all-white interior is now . . . outdoors! Billy Ceglia’s expansive pool lounge serves a cool, retro resort style with an all-white palette that lets the views take center stage to furniture by Brown Jordan. Plus, with the level of performance fabric on the market today, there’s no need to fear crazy upkeep or cleaning bills.
Native gardening
When revamping the home’s gardens, the team at Lang Design Group skipped the tall boxwoods seen throughout Florida in favor of more earth-friendly native plants, like buttonwood trees and colorful orchids.
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