Stone Fruit Chic: Peach and Apricot
Soft, sweet, and just a bit tart, peach and apricot are the dominant hues in the home trends color forecasts for 2024. Pantone declared Peach Fuzz its color of the year, and Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute describes it as “a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance.”
That’s So Metal
It’s back to the essential elements (literally) for home decor trends in 2024: chrome, steel, and aluminum are suddenly everywhere. Pinterest Predicts 2024 includes a “Hot Metals” board with a distinctly surrealist aesthetic—gleaming surfaces that resemble the shiny sinew of liquid mercury.
Dark and Deep: Jewel Tones
The saturated hues of precious gems are giving the palette of 2024 design trends a sense of velvety mystery. According to Rob Natale, chief of design at Sixpenny, this is thanks in part to the recent dominance of neutrals across interiors.
The New Romantics
Unspool your ribbons: Romanticism isn’t just for the 19th century—or the 1980s. Romantic design is more than the clichéd embodiment of Valentine’s Day aesthetics. When embraced with confidence, pinks, reds, florals, lace, and ribbons can be sensual and provocative.
Now and Then: Mixing and Matching Historical Eras
Michael Diaz-Griffith, executive director of the Design Leadership Network and author of The New Antiquarians says that where American antiques are concerned, 2023 was “like the tidal wave at the end of Deep Impact, and we are all Téa Leoni: subsumed.” This is as much a reflection of shifting taste as it is the result of exciting new scholarship in design history. “The most important trend in Americana doesn’t relate directly to aesthetics,” he tells Minimalism, “it’s our evolving understanding of the category itself. American material culture was (and is) made by craftspeople of color, women and girls, Native Americans, immigrants, and others who have traditionally been marginalized in the pages of history, and our shift in focus from the parlor to the workshop is resulting in a new understanding of who Americana was by and for: all of us.”