How to Design a Quiet Luxury Home?: 2025 Interior Trends
In 2025, quiet luxury has become one of the year’s biggest design trends, with celebrities and influencers alike all joining in on the trend. This interior design trend favours calmness and a minimalist aesthetic that is not overly flashy, loud or decorative. Whereas in previous years, some popular design trends focused on filling homes with status-driven objects such as designer throws and expensive paintings instead of focusing on creating a calm space that exudes relaxation and sophistication. At its core, quite luxury prioritises quality and creating atmosphere rather than filling your house with flashy objects that are cheaply made, focusing on longevity rather than blindly following trends and designers.
Quiet luxury is characterised by natural colours such as beige, white, chocolate and mushroom, laid to create a rich and tonal palette. Furniture is crafted with high-quality materials such as cashmere, wool, and fine cotton to create interesting but sleek lines, avoiding flashy features and colours in the aim of creating a base for simple but elegant decoration. After the logo mania of the 2010s, quite luxury ops for a logo-free, non-flashy design and decoration, to exude wealth through quality instead of quantity.
If your goals are to create a home that feels undeniable modern and timeless, and you want to feel luxury without flashy trends, then quite luxury is for you. But how do you achieve it?
The blog aims to give you 8 tips on how to achieve this in your own home so you can have a timeless but stylish home.
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Start with a muted, elevated colour palette
The quite luxurious aesthetic starts with colour. With a shift towards minimalism, layered naturals and natural tones, such as mushroom grey, almond and warm sandstone, form the base of rooms. Meanwhile, honey and dark-stained woods add warmth and depth without feeling overpowering. Dark espressos or deep olives can also be used sparingly through small accents such as throws or even pants to add the natural element without feeling too earthy or darkening a space.
Alternatively, if you are someone who enjoys some colour in your home, you can add dusty sages, pastel blues or subtle lanavanders can be used though small accents to add character, without disrupting the overall colour palette. When choosing accessories, opt for those with matte finishes to help create visual serenity and to avoid a cheap look, which is the opposite of the quiet luxury aesthetic. You should also opt for knit furnishings rather than soft furs, as they also add quality and longevity.
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Invest in high-quality, minimalistic furniture
Quite luxury focuses on furniture that is visually interesting but still minimalist, following Japanese and Scandinavian design. Furniture is clean, with soft edges to help guide the eye around the room and avoid the harshness that is usually associated with contemporary minimalism. Low profile and legless sofas dominate the quite luxury living spaces, providing visual appeal whilst promoting comfort. They are accompanied by a chunky wooden or marble table that exudes quality whilst not feeling showy.
Storage is important to the quite luxurious aesthetic as it prioritises clean lines and minimalism, which means that belongings need to be put away. Materials such as oaks, walnut, ash and wool frequently appear in storage units that are placed around the room purposefully and in a curated way to maintain visual clarity. The room should not feel crammed that should reflect what you want to feel in that room- relaxed.
This should be reflected in the room layout of all furniture. If you have one stand-out armchair, there’s no need for another; this is excessive and can remove depth and serenity from the room.
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Design thoughtful lighting
Lighting is one way to upgrade your space from simple to luxurious. The quiet luxury trend focuses on layering and diffusion of lighting to amplify a space and create luxury. Ambient, task and accent lighting are used to create dimensions and warmth, with sculptural lighting doubling as artistic pieces, creating multifunctional elements whilst linen or frosted glass shades produce gentle, atmospheric glows.
Lighting changes from room to room, whereas your living space may be filled with sculptural and atmospheric lighting. Warm-toned lighting from multiple points in a room, kitchens and bathrooms feature LED lighting placed tactically beneath furniture and cabinets. This gives these areas a clean and spare-like feel. It also helps with visual appeal and creating luxury as it looks like furniture is floating, giving architectural details and removing harsh shadows. Adding these lighting elements injects luxury into any space, even without changing any physical decoration or furniture.
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Add curated decor, not clutter
Decoration added into a house aiming for a quite luxurious aesthetic should be purposeful nd curated. Although it may be tempting to buy lots of natural coloured decoration, the key to quiet luxury is minimalism that holds a large presence. Large-scale artwork is preferred over large gallery walls, whilst handmade and unique ceramics take precedence over mass-made decor from retail shops. This helps to build an air of quality that builds into the quiet luxury aesthetic.
To bring in the natural elements, sculptural branches have to break up the s[ace and create natural movement to help with dimension, especially in empty corners. Other decorations, such as stone trays and books, are great decorations for coffee tables to stop especially marble tables from becoming stark and lifeless, whilst also adding a functional aspect. The key is to avoid overy trends items such as the cloud mirror that were popular in COVID as these are poor investments nd can start to make your room look dated and even cheap.
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Incorporate organic elements
One thing that sets the quiet luxury aesthetic apart from other contemporary modern designs is the inclusion of natural elements that help to create visual calm. Olive trees, tall ficus plants or even evergreen trees can add hints of colour whilst bringing the outside in for a serene feel. Alternatively, seasonal branches are a great way to mix your decoration up from season to season, such as magnolia or cherry blossom, in a fresh but inexpensive way.
Organic shapes in furniture and decor, such as moulded side tables, also help to soften architectural lines, whilst the use of natural bowls and some trays sparingly, introduces subtle texture to further bring the outside in in a functional way.
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Focus on architectural simplicity
Quiet luxury is rooted in strong architectural foundations, with the design leaning towards simplified trims, arched openings and built-in shelving and slatted wood panelling that create a modern but homely feel. Doors and cabinets are often pushed to open and also hidden to maintain clear lines and reflect the minimalism that makes up the quiet luxury aesthetic. These elements are both significant for small and large houses, as they help to fill the room without the need for excessive styling by providing a stylish backdrop.
The simplicity of the architecture for the quite luxury aesthetic doesn’t make spaces feel stark; it becomes part of the styling, by reducing the harsh noise of other architecture, everything becomes meaningful and purposeful.
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Use technology seamlessly
In a quiet luxury home, technology should enhance visuals in a space without disrupting visual calm. The aim in a quiet luxury spec is to discreetly integrate technology such as smart systems that work quietly in the background rather than becoming a focal point. Opting for voice-controlled lighting and heating reduces the need for visible switches, making walls look clearer and uncluttered, adding to visual appeal. Visually disruptive technology, such a speakers hidden by cabinets, is a common feature in quite luxury homes as they tend to become an eyesore and reduce serenity in a room.
Smart homes and quite luxury are connected with smart features being built into other architectural elements, such as side stables and kitchen countertops featuring smart charging stations that cannot be seen day to day. Another trend is the focus on acoustic design. The more minimalist aesthetic can cause echoes; therefore, there is an active effort that should be made to reduce this through soundproofing materials, through curtains and plush rugs, reducing echo and creating a peaceful atmosphere. You should also aim to reduce technological sound, such thought of lift through regular lift servicing.
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Prioritise wellbeing and atmosphere
Quiet luxury in the end is all about how a home makes you feel. Wellbeing becomes a defining principle guiding everything from how a home is lit, the choice of furnishings and even the acoustics of a space. Warm lights add comfort and can look after eye health especially if they are smart lights and dim with the light of the day, Nature elements help to bring the inside out to look out for mental health and can even add some fresh air and acoustics can help you feel still for once in the day, helping you to rejuvenate in your space and your mind to feel calm.
The act of decluttering space can make busy heads also feel still, whilst adding practicality as yuour less likely to trip over or lose items as they have a place. The emphasis on spar like bathrooms can also help you to unwind, whilst also making cleaning easier, boosting the hygiene of spaces. Overall all the quite luxurious aesthetic is not just an aesthetic, it can also boost general life wellness.
