The 5 IKEA trends shaping how decor looks for 2025 – and the pieces you need to buy to replicate the key styles

2025.03.27

1. Lava lamp shapes

There is a definite embrace of waves at IKEA this season, a playful play on the 1970s retro decor trend that's taking over interiors more generally right now. Designers love it because it fits with how people want to live – creating spaces they can entertain and have fun in, that could be ready for a party at any moment.

2. Natural weaves

Color trends are embracing sandy tones for 2025 – warm and dusky hints of yellow, pink, orange, set against a backdrop of beige. Yet IKEA is finding a new way to enliven neutrals. Instead of focusing on the pigment, the emphasis here is on the texture.

The new MÄVINN collection has all been made by social enterprises which create jobs for people who need them most and features jute, banana fiber, and hemp, woven into pleasingly tactile baskets and light fittings that give even the most pared back of schemes a little extra depth.

3. Unexpected Neons

If you were on Tiktok at all in 2024 you'll have come across the Unexpected Red Theory which held that a jolt of red was all you needed to energize your decor. The theory still stands, but designers are morphing it to include all shades of neon, an idea that IKEA has caught onto as well.

It has introduced side tables in bright orange, blankets in the same hue but with neon pink fringing, and even a computer monitor stand in bright yellow to jazz up your home office setup. Now that really is unexpected.

4. Chrome finishes

One of the biggest trends that emerged from the most recent holiday season was the reinvention of 1990s minimalism. This took the form of decorating with chrome – tables laid with pieces in chrome finishes, silver serveware, and a paring back of warmer tones and finishes.

IKEA released its FRÖJDA collection for the new year, and it has been so popular that it continues into this season, marking an aesthetic step away from warmer metals and into a cool new future.

5. Electric blue

In among all the fairly neutral, soft, and earthy Colors of the Year we have seen in 2025, there's IKEA's contribution – an almost neon blue. As of right now, this isn't a color trend I am seeing designers take to right now, so think of Electric Blue as a true IKEA trend. Will it catch on? Will it take over from the warmer shades and richer pigments that decor is centering around right now? IKEA, at least, thinks it will.

It has embraced this jolt of a shade for pieces such as mirrors, lamps, chairs, and clocks, and is running with the decree to 'say yes to blue in 2025!' Admittedly, it's a color that works well with whites, with graphic shapes, and with a sense of modernity. Maybe I will be tempted to bring in a pop of blue.