Saturated Colors, Femininity Key Home Textile Trends for 2024 (2024)

Many home trends begin in the fashion industry and those shifts get translated from garments to furniture via upholstery. So the semiannual Interwoven fabric show in High Point, N.C., offers a first look at what’s new and next for the home.

At the most recent Interwoven market last month, several fabric trends for 2024 and 2025 came to the fore. Here, a few shifts to keep an eye on for the coming seasons.

Bold, saturated color

Muted shades are making way for a bolder use of color over the next few seasons, ranging from luxurious jewel shades and saturated mid-tones to punchy retro hues of orange, red and yellow, updated for a fresher feel.

Trend forecasting agency FashionSnoops included many of these hues in their palettes for 2024-25, including Maxima and Muse, which lean into the craving for nostalgia with midcentury-inspired shades such as orangey spiced marmalade, oxblood and golden sundial.

“These color palettes are truly the epitome of luxury,” said Kristen Moonjian, director, home and lifestyle at Fashion Snoops. “They feel rich and very sophisticated, and they pull in a lot of these waxed jewel tones and saturated mid-tones for a very rich and surprisingly cozy range of color.”

These shades showed up across Interwoven showrooms, including Nassimi, De Leo Textiles, Kravet and Sunbrella, where bold color punctuated the company’s new Sherri x Sunbrella line of fabrics, created with designer Sherri Donghia.

“Color is very core to who Sherri is as a designer,” says Greg Voorhis, design manager, decorative fabrics, at Sunbrella. “So you’ll see a lot of really great pops of color through with reds and citrons and really bright blues. A lot of those are done very tonally, so it’s color on color, but she brings a really vibrant effect to it to really make the fabrics pop and stand out in a unique way.”

A feminine touch

Menswear has had quite a moment over the past couple of years in terms of home textile inspiration. But interiors are poised to get a more feminine touch via colors and textures that exude softness and elegance.

“You can definitely see that divine feminine abundance come through for materials — from soft goods to hard goods — truly encompassing that sense of creativity, sensuality and tenderness for constructions and finishes,” Moonjian said.

Moonjian pointed to the emergence of overly embellished surfaces and high-shine coatings that bring glamour and extravagance to the home, as well as more elaborate, decorative takes on texture, such as denser velvets along with satins and jacquards made using eye-catching metallic filaments.

And blame it on Barbie, but pinks continue to grow in importance, with everything from petal-soft pinkish-whites to a rosy shade with purple undertones to bubblegum and hot pink hues.

“Neutrals are always important, but we’re adding some corals and yellows this season,” said David Lappert, vice president of sales at Kravet.

Moonjian said this convergence of color and texture transforms spaces into havens of much-needed comfort.

“We are seeing this softer side of design come through,” Moonjian said. “We’re really pushing through the rigid patriarchal structures and leaning into nurturing our intuition and wellbeing more. This allows us to celebrate even the smallest amounts of joy and luxury in our lives.”

Mastering the mix

Pattern mixing has been a movement in fashion for a while now, and that trend makes its way into the home as well. Throughout Interwoven showrooms, upholstery makers introduced an array of small- and large-scale patterns designed to be intermingled to add visual interest to a room.

“We see mixing different types of patterns and scales of patterns,” said Amy Gillam, design manager, outdoor and retail segments at Sunbrella. “It’s a great way to layer in a smaller or larger scale, a geometric or another texture.”

The patterns being mixed come in a range of updated takes. Think multidimensional stripes with embroidered and top-stitch effects, quirky renditions of patchwork and a fresh spin on animal print.

“Animal print is back and bolder than ever before, but these animal-like complexities are not as obvious as they used to be,” Moonjian said. “They take a somewhat glitched or acidic approach, really only hinting at your animal skins. And these are really to be placed on your sensual materials such as high-shine leathers and rich velvets.”

Sustainable solutions

As the push for sustainability in the home sector continues to grow, the upholstery category has arguably felt the greatest impact. Consumer demand for textiles that are safe for the environment and human use has pushed fabric-makers to innovate in how they produce textiles and the benefits that upholstery offers.

At Interwoven, multiple companies touted their environmentally friendly products, including Nassimi, which recently released its first sustainability report. The company’s director of operations, Iwan Nassimi, said the report reflects all the changes Nassimi has made — including eliminating PFAS from its fabrics — and lays out goals for the future.

“We’ve been looking at our entire supply chain and trying to improve that, and at the same time doing things like removing PFAS,” he said. “We’re finding ways to produce the material with alternatives that are benign and you still have the performance. At the end of the day, we’re a performance fabric company, so we have to maintain that performance factor.”

Sunbrella has long produced fabrics using waste from its own factories, and now the company also makes a line of textiles using post-consumer waste.

“We have several skews in our collections that are made from post-consumer waste — we’re reclaiming plastic bottles and reincorporating that into product,” Gillam said. “It’s all about connecting to the story — consumers are much more sophisticated, and they want to know the history of where things come from.”

Moonjian said consumer sentiment will continue to drive trends in the home industry for years to come.

“Consumers want pieces that feel authentic and also tell a story,” she said. “And at the same time, they really want to be more mindful of their consumption. As we get into 2024, we are going to see this shift toward mindful consumption. More than ever, people really aren’t buying in the same way that they used to.”