Homeowners Finally Admit Beige Was Just Sadness in Disguise

KEY POINTS

•Interior designer Bri Macdonald observes that color drenching, with unified wall, trim, and ceiling paint, has replaced accent walls by 2025.
•Clients increasingly prefer versatile modular sofas and personalized lighting over builder-grade basics to achieve sustainable, chic living spaces.
•Trends are shifting away from all-beige interiors, matching furniture sets, and all-white kitchens toward bold contrasts and mixed styles for more lively homes.

Bri Macdonald, an interior designer caught in the endless merry-go-round of trends, delivers fresh insight from the color trenches in early 2025. Color drenching—painting entire rooms from muted sage-green bedrooms to warm clay dining zones—replaces the once-ubiquitous accent wall, proving people now want to bathe in color like a designer’s palette, not a sad beige prison. Clients crave modular sofas that don’t require new mortgages on disposal and ditch builder-grade lighting in favor of vintage brass or woven rattan fixtures to feel something besides ‘showroom sadness.’ All-white kitchens and matching furniture sets, apparently the bathroom wallpaper of the last decade, are being unceremoniously booted out. As Macdonald cheerily notes, she loves when trim is colorful and mixing styles brings rooms 'to life,' as if blending rustic and sleek somehow rescues us from assembling Yet-Another-Matchy-Match-Suite Syndrome.

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Beige interiors ruled once until we realized our walls were just beige crying silently. Now everyone paints ceilings, trims, and even their laundry rooms—the whole life painted like an overenthusiastic toddler’s finger-painting phase.

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