What You Will Learn

Fashion trends have increasingly influenced interior design, with runway styles shaping living spaces through color palettes, textures, and patterns. As influencers blend fashion with home decor, platforms like Instagram showcase both curated interiors and outfits, fueling a crossover between the two. This shift has prompted fashion retailers to target millennials and “Generation Rent,” offering stylish, functional homeware that traditional brands overlook. Just as a versatile handbag mirrors multi-functional furniture, the seasonal nature of fashion encourages homeowners to refresh their spaces regularly. The rise of digital media, such as Instagram and Pinterest, has accelerated this fusion, making it easier to incorporate the latest trends into interior design. Ultimately, fashion and interior design now share a mutual influence, driven by social and economic lifestyles.

Learning Objectives:

• Color Trends: Influencers are bringing fashion colors into home decor, with oceanic blues, emerald greens, and earthy tones like terracotta reflecting both style and eco-consciousness. Bold neons and eclectic color mixes also feature prominently, blending avant-garde fashion with daring home styling for a unique, sustainable aesthetic.
• Forecasting Interiors Through Fashion Trends: With luxe velvet now featured in seating and geometric patterns from clothing translating into striking home decor, like wallpaper and embroidered cushions. This fusion creates spaces that reflect personal style, turning homes into extensions of individual brands.
• Sustainability and Ethical Choices: With consumers increasingly seeking eco-friendly furniture, organic textiles, and energy-efficient appliances. Prioritizing sustainability creates homes that are both stylish and eco-conscious.

What You Will Learn

This 2025+ global trend forecast exposes the most significant color and design directions, including discussions of influencers, consumer mood, styling, materials, textures, finishes and surface treatments as they apply to various commercial and residential market segments. 

The driver of our 2025+ global trend forecast is Kinetic – signifying a shift from merely embracing change to actively requiring movement and adaptation. Extraordinary new developments will shape the next decade, including an increased self-reliance and value of individual choices, climate-born emergencies pushing consumers to seek protective products, and new tools exponentially expanding our creativity, making previously unimaginable tasks possible and encroaching on activities once thought to be uniquely human.

Learning Objectives:

• Uncover the global color direction in four distinct trend stories to be applied in both residential and commercial segments including multi-family, senior living, healthcare, hospitality, office, retail and more.
• Enhance your knowledge on the societal trends, events and materials influencing the upcoming color palettes and design trends.
• Identify how other industries such as consumer products, aerospace, automotive and industrial influence architectural preferences.

What You Will Learn

Two of the kitchen & bath industry’s hottest design trends are working with sustainable materials and working with metal. What if you could combine the two?! As a leading manufacturer of both, luxury wood surfaces and metal-coated surfaces, Grothouse has actionable tips for attendees to implement into their projects, creating a rich design aesthetic that combines the natural look of wood with the modern look of metal. We look forward to delivering educational information and exciting inspiration to designers on how to incorporate both of these trends and ultimately, elevate their projects in ways they have never imagined! 

Learning Objectives:

• This course provides viewers with the tools necessary to specify organic, sustainable materials in their projects and create award-winning wood designs in residential and commercial spaces.
• This course is designed to provide industry professionals with a thorough understanding of wood specificities, eco-friendly sourcing, and manufacturing, and how wood can be used in projects to meet client’s needs and stay on trend using a natural, sustainable material. Viewers will leave the webinar confident in their understanding of wood sustainability, maintenance, and usability.
• Metal adds contrast and sophistication to both modern and traditional spaces but can be challenging due to its limitations in curved profiles and complex shapes. For designers searching for ways to incorporate metal finishes and accents into their projects without reservations, we’ve got you! Attendees will be inspired by unexpected new ways to elevate their indoor and outdoor designs using one of the industry’s hottest trends, metal-coated surfaces, and metal accents.

What You Will Learn

Home trends come and go, but some have the staying power to make a lasting impact. In this session, Liza will explore the evolution of homeowners’ top priorities for their home renovation and design projects. From enduring kitchen and bathroom designs to a new emphasis on sustainability and aging in place, each insight is handpicked from a decade’s worth of research in the Houzz community of over 70 million homeowners and home design enthusiasts and over 3 million industry professionals.

Learning Objectives:

• Discover what new trends have surfaced over the past decade with the staying power to continue driving design preferences and which ones have fallen out of favor.
• Understand how home age influences renovation and design motivations and activity today.
• Learn about the generational differences among your clients and how to adjust your messages to reach them.