Summer is more than just a season. It is a state of mind. It brings light, movement, lightness, and a renewed desire to open up space inside and outside the home.
For interior designers, summer represents an opportunity to transform areas, respond to clients' needs, and reinterpret how we live our daily lives. Temperatures rise, routines slow down, and interiors call for freshness, functionality, and sensorial solutions.
How can we create spaces that welcome light without losing comfort? How can we incorporate materials and shapes that evoke nature without falling into clichés? What colour palettes, objects and textures best convey the essence of summer and still last over time?
In this article, we have gathered the main interior design trends for summer 2025, with proposals designed to inspire professionals who seek to create unique, sustainable, and deeply human projects.
Summer demands a new way of living. With rising temperatures and more intense natural light, interiors take on a new role: to be an extension of the outdoors but with the comfort of a refuge.
Clients are looking for cooler yet more welcoming homes, spaces that maintain thermal well-being, inspire tranquility, and encourage socialising. And that is where design makes the difference.
Creating spaces for summer involves more than using light tones or fabrics. It involves thinking strategically about the layout, choosing materials that breathe, ensuring natural ventilation, softening visual contrasts, and incorporating elements that promote a sense of calm.
Natural textures, fluid surfaces, pieces with light volume, points of shadow, and diffuse lighting are some elements that help create this ideal atmosphere.
Creating a mood board makes all the difference in this process. This visual tool allows you to define a clear direction for the project, align colour palettes, textures, and sensations, and ensure coherence between the chosen elements. It helps the designer (and the client) visualise the final space, ensuring that every detail contributes to a fresh, harmonious space with an identity.
Summer 2025 brings a powerful combination of nature, simplicity, and understated sophistication. Emerging trends reflect a desire for a deep connection with the environment and practical and aesthetic solutions that enhance comfort and well-being.
In this selection, we highlight five concepts that promise to make their mark on contemporary projects, offering designers the tools to create fresh, engaging interiors with character.
Biophilic design is set to be one of the strongest trends for summer 2025. This concept is based on our intrinsic connection with nature and the need to integrate it into our daily lives, even indoors.
Bringing the outdoors in doesn't just mean placing plants in a corner. It means creating spaces that recreate natural sensations through elements such as light wood, natural stone, fibres such as rattan or wicker, and making the most of natural light. For example, a solid wood dining table with a natural finish and chairs made of natural fibres can transform the room into an extension of nature.
Live plants are essential through vertical gardens, hanging pots, or miniature indoor vegetable gardens that bring freshness and movement to the space. Complementing with decorative objects inspired by flora and fauna, such as ceramics with natural motifs or fabrics with botanical prints, further reinforces this connection.
In addition to its aesthetic impact, biophilic design contributes to physical and mental well-being, improves air quality, and reduces stress, all of which are essential factors for those looking for cool and cosy spaces in the summer.
Minimalism for summer 2025 is evolving towards a warmer, more inviting approach. Far from the minimalism of the past, this trend values simple lines and uncluttered spaces but with materials and colours that convey comfort and closeness.
For example, a straight-line sofa in natural linen, combined with cushions in earthy tones and soft fabrics, creates a minimalist yet welcoming atmosphere. Light wood furniture, like the Atacama sideboard from ALMA de LUCE, reinforces this effect, while rugs in natural fibres, such as sisal or cotton, provide texture and warmth.
The space's organisation prioritises the essential, eliminating excess while maintaining points of interest that invite rest and contemplation. The balance between functionality and tactile sensation makes this minimalism a perfect base for cool and serene areas during the summer.
In a season where excess declines, pieces with presence but without volume take centre stage. The concept of quiet luxury extends to interior design: soft silhouettes, refined finishes, and sculptural shapes communicating quietly. These are objects that do not seek to attract attention but that naturally attract it.
For summer 2025, this trend translates into sculpted chairs with organic lines, minimalist lamps with subtle metallic details or tables with textured surfaces that create discrete focal points. For example, a soft suede armchair like Metamorphosis from ALMA de LUCE can stand out without disrupting the harmony of the space.
These quiet statements reinforce that less is more, promoting visual balance and creating sophisticated and calm rooms, ideal for summer.
Interiors increasingly focus on sensory experiences, responding to the desire for spaces that comfort and ground us. For summer 2025, there is a preference for stucco finishes, unpolished stone, raw textiles, and padded shapes that invite touch and interaction.
Matte and textured surfaces combine with materials such as linen, cotton, velvet, and soft faux. A sofa covered in raw linen, cotton throws, and velvet cushions exemplifies how tactile diversity enriches a space.
An example of a piece that embodies this trend is ALMA de LUCE’s latest launch, the Adamastor rug. With its rich texture and flowing pattern made from natural materials, this rug provides a cosy and elegant base that invites touch and complements any summer space.
In addition, pieces with a suede finish, tables with raw stone tops, or walls with natural stucco balance freshness and comfort, creating areas that appeal to the senses and promote well-being.
In 2025, design values irregularity and the authenticity of the handcrafted. It moves away from the pursuit of perfection and embraces a natural and intuitive balance inspired by nature's imperfect beauty. Every asymmetrical shape or unique detail is thought out and intentional, never forced.
This approach is revealed in furniture with fluid contours and irregular surfaces, such as tables with asymmetrical tops in natural wood or hand-carved chairs, which highlight each piece's uniqueness. The incorporation of organic imperfections brings life and personality to spaces, creating spaces that breathe warmth and freshness at the same time.
In this way, the interior ceases to be merely functional and becomes an artistic expression of authenticity and connection with nature.
Summer 2025 features a palette that combines freshness, warmth, and sophistication, perfect for spaces that balance elegance and comfort.
Butter yellow appears soft and optimistic, ideal for bringing warmth without losing lightness. Pistachio green and botanical tones (sage and moss) bring nature indoors, reinforcing the biophilic trend and inviting calm. Soft citrus tones, such as tangerine and light gold, inject energy and vitality into spaces, while pastel blue offers serenity, perfect for bedrooms and rest areas. To complete the look, earthy neutrals, such as terracotta, clay, and mocha, create a stable and natural base, evoking the textures of earth and wood.
This colour harmony allows you to explore combinations that give life to fresh, welcoming, and modern interiors, aligned with the spirit of summer and current interior design trends.
Summer 2025 is an invitation to reinvent interior design with courage and authenticity. It's not just about following trends but about interpreting each space with a keen eye for comfort, nature, and the human touch. By embracing biophilic design, organic asymmetry, tactile materials, and colours that balance freshness and warmth, you'll be creating spaces that not only delight but also welcome and inspire.
Find inspiration on ALMA DE LUCE's Pinterest, where we have selected several ideas that illustrate the trends for summer 2025, helping you adapt projects to your client's tastes, needs, or desires. Feeling inspired? Do you need support to take the first steps? Contact us here. 😉
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