It’s a rainy Tuesday night in December. You walk in the door with soggy shoes, a phone dinging with notifications, and feeling like it’s been dark since, like, three in the afternoon. Balancing on one foot, you wiggle free of your shoes, wrestle out of your coat, flip the switch on the wall, and look around at…
…pretty much the same thing you’ve been looking at since June. Oof. Oh, how you wish you were coming home to a little bit of magic now that winter is here.
Today we’ll give you a quick how-to tour of five of our favorite interior design winter/holiday trends this year. We’ll tell you what they are and how to use them in your home. Plus, we’ll offer ideas for the right fabrics to set the scene as we go. Consider this your permission slip to shift your home’s vibe for the season. Let’s begin.
How To Color Your Home’s Vibe Warmer For The Holidays — And Beyond
Heavier blankets, thick sweaters, decadent comfort foods. Winter practically requires weightier, richer things. This year, that includes more saturated color tones, like the deep jewel tones associated with maximalist, art deco, or dark academia spaces.
Start with something that might have an impact, like a loveseat, entryway bench, or even just accent pillows. Whatever you choose, add those jewel tones drenched in color.
How to get it done:
- A pair of armchairs slipcovered in burgundy plush velvet, each with lumbar pillows in an ink blue faux mohair fabric.
- A table or mantle runner in a dark meadow green chenille, warming the space with color and texture.
- In a minimalist space, simply a footstool in a retro red, gold, and dark green striped damask offers a pop of color and pattern, deepening the vibe.
Budget-friendly:
- Save money – Dress one significant piece in something like an earthy moss green Crypton velvet.
- Save time – Find accent fabrics you love and we’ll take care of the rest with our custom pillow cover service.
How Ralph Lauren Is Bringing Holiday Magic To Your Home This Year
Design experts heralding a Ralph Lauren holiday/winter interior design trend had us confused. But they aren’t talking about clothing, they’re talking about traditional, nostalgically clubby feeling spaces.
It’s in homes this season because there’s a real trend towards offering a cozy, intentional welcome through things like tartan and other plaids, deep reds, and rich greens, all feeling timelessly at home.
How to get it done:
- An ottoman in a fabric like country plaid damask in beige and burgundy or faux leather emerald green vegan suede.
- In a Scandi or Japandi home, offer a quietly classic feel with a simple microcheck fabric like juniper green tartan for pillows throughout your space.
- Small bits of fabric go a long way as things like table runners, napkins, and a centerpiece foundation, like a cocoa brown performance fabric.
Christmas Pro Tip:
- Embrace tree skirts, like your Christmas tree rocking a Christmas-y crimson red checkered pattern, popping against the green of the tree.
How To Tie Your Home’s Magical Holiday Vibe Up With Ribbons & Bows
Charls Dickens had a traditional Christmas down. Those stories focused on what was important, making the most of lovingly decorated spaces. We see that Dickensian feel trending with a bold and playful use of fabrics for ribbons and bows this year.
How to get it done:
- Crown your tree with a giant bow and ribbon tails trailing down, like cranberry red faux silk or spiraling rings of snow white faux silk. (Or both.)
- Add fabric bows on lighting sconces, as curtain tiebacks, cabinet pulls, and more in something like olive green velvet.
- Take a simple, solid colored fabric like birch bark and/or silver gray canvas and wrap it around a railing, drape it around molding, and weave it through a wreath.
Budget-friendly:
- Simple – Set the table with fabric scrap napkin rings, perhaps leftover from a table runner in wine red microfiber.
- Splendid – Add ribbons and bows galore to the tree, banisters, moldings, or anywhere that makes your home feel like the gift it is, perhaps in a fabric like scarlet red chenille.
How To Use Greenery To Warm Your Home’s Style From The Outside-In
One poetic thing we’ve learned about coziness is that bringing the outside inside warms a space — even when it’s cold outside. Enter the greenery trend this season, actual branches and foliage, craft store greenery, and greenery through fabrics. Greenery lends a wintry magic and sense of life in what can often be a cold, stark time.
How to get it done:
- Add greenery to banisters, mantels, and tabletops and string a ribbon of fabric through it, like golden textured velvet or cider orange chenille.
- Or just use a fabric as garland to bring that feel, like a hunter green microfiber.
- Slipcover a primary bedroom headboard in a green checked eco-friendly fabric, offering a simple (green) nod to the season.
Pet-friendly greenery:
- Now, adding greenery may look to your furry friends mostly like a new chew toy. So, use fabrics with a texture instead, like a forest green shearling or aspen green tweed.
Unlock The More-Is-More Magic Of Holiday Maximalism In Your Home
More-is-more in maximalism. In holiday maximalism, that means the cozier and more nostalgic the better. Basically, conjure your warmest visions of the holidays/winter, infuse them with an absolute commitment to coziness, and then take it all to the max in your home.
How to get it done:
- Do everything we’ve talked about, as big as feels good for you. Perhaps your sofa slipcovered in green striped performance fabric and an accent chair slipcovered in alpine green chenille.
- And add accents like throw pillows, curtains, or dining chairs in a pine green performance fabric or a diamond patterned ruby red chenille,
- And garnish throughout with table runners, garland, napkins, and more in something like a warm brick red eco-friendly plaid.
Surprising Pro Tip:
- When guests are coming over, take, let’s say, five accessories out of the main room you’ll be in. Doing that creates a kind of visual breathing room, freeing the fabrics and other decor you’ve added to pop.
Wrap It Up: A Cozier Home Is The Must-Have Gift For You This Winter
Here’s something that’s always true, and also happens to be trending. Your home and its decor don’t need to be perfect for the holiday or winter. That’s not really the point. Welcoming guests — and coming home yourself — to cozy spaces that feel intentional and personal. That’s the point.
You can do cozy. And personal. And you can do it all on purpose. Which is why we here at the largest online upholstery fabrics store know, for sure, you can do this.
And all the trends are telling us that this year that involves rich jewel tones, classic heritage holiday feels, weaving in bows and ribbons, throwing in some greenery, and doing it all to the max. We hope our quick how-to journey got the ideas flowing. And we’re here to help you with all the fabric needs along the way. Give us a call today