Living trends 2025: an outlook for the coming year

The year 2024 is already half over and is progressing inexorably. It's high time to take a look back at the year to date and venture a look ahead to the coming year. Many of you have certainly noticed: It has been a year of contrasts so far - and not just politically or culturally. This difference was also noticeable in the furniture industry!

Looking back on the current year, it is clear to see: The 2024 living trends surprised with a focus on contrasts. Bold colors were combined with soft natural tones, material mixes were the measure of all things and the retro trend brought true treasures from the last 50 years back into the home, significantly freshening up the atmosphere. Did you enjoy this heterogeneity as much as we did or are you more of an advocate of symmetry and similarity?

How will you live next year?

No matter what your preferences are when it comes to furnishing your home. Looking ahead to 2025, a few furniture trends are already emerging that we would like to recommend to you in our magazine. At the forefront: minimalism. Whereas in 2024, people were still living true to the motto of "clutter not spill", in 2025, less is simply more. A minimalist living style is characterized by a focus on the most important things. A few core pieces in the decoration, simple straightforwardness in furniture design and a focus on the essentials are the ultimate for every minimalist. Minimalist furniture is not equipped with a lot of "fuss". It has a clean, chic look and works with the rest of the room to create the whole. Smooth surfaces and understated designs - whether for chests of drawers, sideboards or corner sofas - are desirable and emphasize the minimalist atmosphere.

These are furniture trends 2025

The trend towards minimalist living paves the way for another trend: functional furniture. After all, if you are downsizing so that you only have the bare essentials, you probably want to get the most out of your furnishings. The furniture industry has now produced a variety of multifunctional furniture that will perfectly support your lifestyle. Comfortable and high-quality sofas are already equipped with matching storage surfaces. Comfortable sofa beds are also on the rise again and are no longer reminiscent of the old models, which were far from comfortable and at best caused lumbago. At the same time, multifunctional shelves in the living room open up many options for safely storing treasured belongings without wasting too much space.

Let's move on to what is probably the most important trend for next year: sustainability. This term has been on everyone's lips for years and is used synonymously with terms such as "environmentally friendly living". But what is sustainable furniture? The focus here is primarily on the methods used in production. How are the available resources used? Which materials are used? Even among the premium manufacturers that you will find on our website, there are companies that stand out in these areas. At the forefront are Team 7 and Hülsta, who focus on resource-conserving handling of the furniture they produce and guarantee the longevity of their furnishings. After all, this is also how sustainable sofas, for example, are measured. It's no secret that we sell premium furniture at MöbelFirst. But we also make our contribution to sustainability, because in our range you will only find as-new stock items and former furniture exhibition pieces from premium brands and specialist retailers. These are usually destroyed when they have served their purpose. We give these pieces of furniture a new lease of life by selling them with us. Discover high-quality and robust furniture for your own home now at MöbelFirst, so that you too can furnish your home sustainably.

Our conclusion for the coming year: We are already looking forward to 2025. Will the predictions come true? Will new trends emerge after all? The crystal ball hasn't revealed anything to us yet, but stay tuned - so are we!