Spring Awakening: Refresh your Home with SS25s Must-Have Pieces

If you're feeling full of the joys of spring, now is a great time to channel your energy and enthusiasm into your home. If the annual spring clean hasn't quite scratched that homemaking itch, Crate and Barrel is ready to fill you with seasonal inspiration for a home refresh. Explore the interior design trends set to breeze through homes in spring/summer 2025 and find the best furniture and décor to bring these looks to life.  

What’s trending in SS25? 

Interior designers predict the biophilic trend that delivered nature-inspired interiors in 2024 is set to grow in popularity this year. If you've yet to embrace the trend or need to tweak your biophilic style story, now is the time. Let natural light flood into your rooms with lighter window dressings, introduce hardwood and rattan furniture, add stone accents, and learn to style with botanicals.  

This au naturel aesthetic ties in perfectly with the season's trending organic colour palettes and the move toward more textured surfaces across the home – from rustic concrete and travertine to polished marble and onyx. UAE interior designers are also placing the spotlight on sculptural, sustainable, modular, and multifunctional furniture moving into the spring/summer season. 

Here, we’ll show you how to incorporate these trending themes into your home, but if you’d like bespoke interior design advice, Crate and Barrel is here to help with TheDesignDesk.

Declutter and organise  

Before you invest in furniture and décor to refresh your home, spend some time sprucing up the rooms you plan to transform. Mess distracts from key furniture pieces and the overall interior design, making it hard for you to feel calm and relaxed within the space.

 In the spirit of the SS25s multifunctional furniture trend, keep on top of your room organisation with a beautiful and practical piece like a storage bench or ottoman that gives you both a snug spot to perch and somewhere to stow away clutter. These can work well as a window seat in a living room, bedroom, or entryway. Media consoles with hidden storage keep your media tech out of sight and offer impressive space to store discs, paperwork, and board games. New in this season, the Ameno Charcoal Ash Wood and Metal Storage Media Console provides a captivating blend of clean and curvaceous lines within its kiln-dried ash doors, capturing the organic essence of the biophilic trend. 

Other ways to use storage and organisation to capture the biophilic trend include introducing charming wicker and rope baskets. Place them beside the sofa to store magazines, pop them in the playroom to keep your kids' toys organised, or use them to hold rolled towels or products in your bathrooms. 

Refresh with minimal effort 

If you’d rather not get the paintbrushes or wallpaper paste out this spring, you can achieve an impactful home refresh this spring with a statement furniture purchase.  

As the most dominant piece of furniture in your living room, it’s little wonder that switching up your sofa can instantly change the entire mood of the space. In the spirit of change, why not make your next seating purchase a modular sectional? These give you the freedom to rearrange the sectional to suit your seating needs, your space, or simply your latest whim. Likewise, to change the aesthetic of your bedroom with minimal effort, upgrade to a new bed. Keep the ambience light and airy with a rattan headboard or a blond wood plinth bed, or why not treat yourself to Crate and Barrel’s dreamy new Palermo bed, available as a queen or king-size? It boasts enchanting curves, a feminine off-white fleecy headboard and trim, and a rustic ivory cerused oak base with two spacious drawers. 

If your attention has turned to your dining room, you don’t need to push the budget to a new dining set. A dining chair refresh can change the tone of your space and give you ideas for switching up your decorative accents and even your dinnerware and table linens. New this season and handcrafted from sustainably sourced walnut, the delightfully stylish and comfortable Via Velvet Walnut dining chairs come in two on-trend earthy tones – toffee brown and olive green. Whether you stick to one colour or mix and match, these contemporary chairs add an understated, organic elegance and sit confidently within a trending biophilic or minimalist scheme.

Sublime seasonal accents  

If you don’t want to buy new furniture, a stunning spring refresh is still wholly achievable with clever styling that takes its cues from the latest seasonal trends.  

Nothing embodies spring better than flowers, and to keep the floral theme flowing through spring into summer, why not choose faux botanicals? Unleash your inner florist, handpicking a bouquet from our selection of faux stems and branches. Display them in a design from Crate and Barrel's new vase collection to keep the look fresh and sun-kissed. Inspired by ancient ceramics found on the Italian coastline, these enchanting terracotta vases inject texture and a curvaceous amphora-style silhouette into your space. They make a charismatic centrepiece on a coffee or dining table and look stunning set against a window or one on either side of your French doors. Nurture nature throughout your home this spring with tall tropical plants and sweet succulents that introduce soothing green shades and a tranquil atmosphere. If you're not green-fingered, turn to Crate and Barrel's hyper-realistic range of faux potted plants and trees.  

This year's top Pantone colours are just right for adding a dash of spring to your interior design, with exotic brights, fresh greens, and breezy blues alongside the earthier neutrals. Use throws, decorative pillows, or bed linens to add a spritely spring colour pop to a room. Don’t forget to refresh your dining table with cheerful sky-blue reactive glaze dinnerware and coloured glassware. 

With just a few simple on-trend additions, you can reinvigorate your home, introducing timelessly elegant pieces you'll want to treasure for a lifetime, not just this season.