The Color Trends for 2025: Warm, Natural Shades and a Cheerful Accent

Now that every paint brand has released its color of the year 2025 and the accompanying color palettes, it’s time to reflect on these colors and look at the overall color trends for 2025. And personally, I’m delighted with the color direction for the new year.

While the color palette of 2025 consists of several diverse hues, it is cohesive, which we will explore in this article. Plenty of beautiful interiors, at the end of the article, will inspire a new color story in your home. Let’s take a look at the 2025 color trends.

This image gives you a nice overview of the colors chosen by the largest paint companies in the world. Some paint companies, like Sherwin-Williams and the Norwegian brand Jotun, have not released one color but a color palette, so they are not visible in this picture.

The color palette shows a selection of muted, earthy tones and rich, vintage-inspired shades, meaning that the color world is shifting towards a balance of warm, natural, and sophisticated shades that evoke comfort, stability, and a grounded connection to the natural world around us.

Behr chooses a color in the red color family. Their 2025 color ‘Rumors’ is a dusty burgundy shade that is rich and deep but not overpowering. The color is perfect for those who want to add warmth and depth to their interior spaces, which creates the perfect balance between nostalgic and contemporary.

A warm yellow shade is also one of nine colors on the Sherwin-Williams Color Capsule for 2025.

Blue tones are a safe choice for any interior, although the trending blue colors from Valspar (Encore) and HGTV Home (Quietude) are more interesting than regular blue. Our love for blue is an antidote to our busy and sometimes unconnected lives. Instead of a technological connection, we’re craving a natural connection that adds a calming vibe to our interiors.

At the same time, richer colors such as golden mustard and Behr’s deep ruby red ‘Rumors’ provide contrast, adding depth and a touch of boldness without overwhelming the senses.

This palette reflects our collective need for spaces that feel timeless, comfortable, and connected to nature. As we move through 2025, expect to see these colors embraced in both interior design and fashion, offering a perfect balance between the past and present, luxury and simplicity.

The Nordroom’s Color of the Year Prediction

In early 2024, The Nordroom created a Color of the Year 2025 prediction article based on the color trends from New York and London Fashion Week. Now that the leading paint brands in the world have released their Colors of the Year for 2025, we can see that there is indeed a big correlation between fashion and the interior design world.

Many colors from the Fashion Week color palettes are also found in the Colors of the Year and their accompanying trending color palettes. Let’s take a look at the two color palettes and their corresponding paint Colors of the Year 2025.

Almost all Colors of the Year 2025 also appear in these color palettes. Pantone’s Mocha Mousse, Benjamin Moore’s Cinnamon Slate,’ Behr’s Rumors,’ Dulux’s True Joy,’ PPG’s ‘Purple Basil,’ and the blue tones from HGTV Home, Dutch Boy, and Valspar.    

deVOL Kitchens knows the strength of a deep red hue, which is why they have their own red shade called ‘Refectory Red.’ This kitchen, designed by Uns Hobbs and deVOL, shows the beauty of this color.

A purple kitchen is not something you see every day, but this modern example in a London duplex apartment shows that a warm purple hue is a perfect warm neutral for the kitchen.

There is a shift from light tones to darker hues in the bedroom, and this purple is warm, calm, and inviting. Perfect for a bedroom.

Surround yourself with warmth and luxury in the bathroom with deep red tiles paired with a moody dark blue shade on the walls. Beautiful, as you can see in this bathroom from a Scandinavian duplex.

Heather’s Scottish home is packed with color. In the living room, she paired a deep purple shade with natural green and ochre yellow, combining two trend colors.

You don’t have to paint walls; trend colors can also be added to home decorations like textiles, vases, or prints. In this moody living room, a purple rug adds a nice color pop to the room.

You can also add color through furniture. Interior designer Heidi Caillier opted for a purple sofa in a dark-painted sitting room in a Dutchess County country house.

Deep red tiles add an instant warmth to your space, like in a kitchen with white cabinets, as you can see in this warm vintage apartment.

Let’s go bold and paint the woodwork instead of the walls. In this dining room, designed by Zoe Feldman, it is paired with a colorful House of Hackney wallpaper and natural furniture and decor.

Purple looks beautiful in combination with natural materials like terracotta and wood, as you can see in this bathroom designed by Heidi Caillier. It adds such a warm, luxurious touch to the room.

A small entry with a wow factor. This hallway in a Nordic maisonette has been completely painted in a deep red shade, from the door to the ceiling and the cabinets. How good does it look?

Another terracotta and purple combination, this time in the form of a purple velvet headboard, a purple rug, and terracotta-colored wallpaper. This is a bold look in a bedroom, but it is also very beautiful.

To me, a bright yellow like True Joy feels very modern, but this living room shows how amazing this color looks in a period home.

The farmhouse kitchen of Mrs. Trufflepig has bright yellow kitchen cabinets paired with a brick floor and a rustic dining table.

Create a sunny entrance to your home by painting the doorframes a sunny yellow, as in this London home.

The Instagram famous home of influencer Hannes Mauritzson features a buttery yellow kitchen (as well as pale yellow walls in the living room); it looks very hygge.

You can pair two of the three blue colors in one room. This living room in a classic apartment features colors similar to Valspar’s Encore and Dutch Boy’s Mapped Blue.

Paint the ceiling in a bold blue hue and pair it with wood for a warm look. Via Stained Glass Doors and Terrazzo in a London Home.

Pair the silvery blue of HGTV Home’s Quietude with a bold blue color accent like this rug in a muted blue living room.

Interior stylist Theo-Bert Pot painted built-in cabinets in a blue shade similar to Mapped Blue, which he paired with bold blue wallpaper and pink.

Interior designer Heidi Caillier makes any color look amazing, and she shows how you can combine it with other colors and patterns, like in this brown living room in a San Francisco family home.

This brown velvet headboard adds an instant warm vibe to the otherwise light-colored bedroom. Pair it with layered textiles and art, and you create a warm abode.

How do you feel about the 2025 Color Trends? Are there colors you will implement in your home?