No doubt by now you’ve heard about it, or — more likely — heard jokes about it. Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year, Mocha Mousse, has inspired an array of colorful commentary. From morning shows talking about the dessert cravings it inspired, to late-night comics’ takes on more adolescent color themes.
All this buzz about Mocha Mousse inspired us to take a closer at some of the rest of the emerging 2025 Colors of the Year according to experts and industry leaders. Today we get to share with you some of our favorites, why they matter, and how and why upholstery fabrics are just about the best (and easiest) way to bring home your favorite color of the year, any year.
How Colors Of The Year Are A Design Love Letter To You And Your Home
My sister-in-law makes amazing pottery. Wait, is it “makes” or “throws” amazing pottery? Actually, that’s my point. I don’t know anything about it. I very much appreciate its beauty, the character it adds, and its utility, and I suppose I could learn about it, but it’s just not my thing.
You might feel that way about interior design. You love great design, you love coming home to a home that really works for you and your life. And you love having a vibe that fits your personality and — above all — offers the comfort you long for.
That’s what interior designers do. That’s their jam.
And those designers engage their craft by drawing from passionate folks in other fields. Like paint color designers, for instance. And those passionate folks closely examine the world on every level each year. Yes, the latest advancements in home, furniture, and decor design. But also what’s happening psychologically, what’s going on in the broader world, and all the “things” that might find their way into your home and into what you need your home to do to serve your life.
That’s — fundamentally — the artistry and care that goes into the creation and selection of the colors of the year.
As a result, the colors of the year come bearing inspiration, comfort, and more. And as you’re about to see, in 2025 these artists are offering earthy warmth and heavenly elegance, tranquil serenity and bold vibrancy — and a whole lot of potential to refresh the harmony in your home’s 2025 style vibe. So, that’s why you care, because the colors of the year care about you. Let’s meet them, shall we?
Drum Roll Please: Our 5 Favorite Colors Of The Year (So Far) Revealed
Here are five colors of the year that are particularly catching our eye — and some fabrics so similar to each that they might as well be family:
- Pantone’s Mocha Mousse
With Mocha Mousse, Pantone takes inspiration from chocolate and coffee and the comfort that comes from even just thinking about them. It’s earthy, warm, and a perfect grounding foundational tone. Imagine movie night in a cozy sectional in mocha brown microsuede with throw pillows adding to the peace in a green, grey, and pink botanical pattern jacquard and a beige tweed.
- Valspar’s Encore
How about adding some serenity and relaxation to your home in 2025? Meet Valspar’s Encore, an azure blue with a lingering memory of violet. The perfect color for a soothing and welcoming bedroom chaise or a pair of living room armchairs in woven chenille jacquard or herringbone chevron velvet with elegant garden white floral brocade curtains and natural wood accents.
- Behr’s Rumors
Behr is spreading rumors. Well, not exactly, but their deep ruby red pick for color of the year, Rumors, is certainly adding drama and energy. Bring it home with an ottoman or accent chair in ruby red diamond pattern matelassé or a slightly deeper merlot Crypton velvet, turning heads in any space and especially in an otherwise largely neutral vibe.
- Sherwin-Williams’ Color Capsule
Sherwin-Williams cheated a bit — and we’re here for it. Their Color Capsule of the Year celebrates an entire family of colors, offering nine ranging from subtle pastels to rich (but soft) jewel tones, all complementing rather than competing with each other. Embrace the Capsule with dining chairs in purple linen (like their Mauve Finery) and curtains in abstract watercolor geometric pattern beige, cream, and grey cotton (like their Sunbleached). Sleep soundly under a headboard in eco-friendly performance velvet in cornflower blue (like their Rain Cloud). So fun. So many possibilities.
- Benjamin Moore’s Cinnamon Slate
Let’s sprinkle some cinnamon on top of all this colorful deliciousness. Benjamin Moore’s Cinnamon Slate — a blend of a spicy plum and a creamy brown — comes bearing a modern sophistication. Class up a home office with a sofa or pair of reading chairs in wisteria linen tweed or amethyst textured velvet. Complete the scene with throw pillows in winter blue and grey floral linen and add a knit throw blanket too.
Colors Of The Year And Fabrics Are Your Home’s Design Style Soulmates
Paint is great, but with all respect and love for the paint companies behind many of the aforementioned colors of the year, paint is, well, just on the walls. It lacks the texture, dimensionality, and literal ability to move that fabrics have.
Also, painting is more of a commitment. Between all the prep work, painting, clean up, and moving all your stuff back — it’s a whole thing.
Fabrics, on the other hand, free you to play and experiment.
- Go with small things like throw pillows, ottomans, and even mantel runners and table runners. So trying out snow white performance tweed to bring whisps of the Color Capsule’s White Snow can be low impact.
- Go a little bigger with a headboard, bench, coffee table, dining chairs, or curtains. And infuse your home with some of those Encore vibes thanks to a fabric like ocean dark blue denim.
- Or go big and dress up your sectional, love seat, and/or armchairs in a color of the year like Mocha Mousse with a coffee brown Crypton tweed, offering your home’s design style a more definitive 2025 refresh. (Psst… here again, the commitment hack of slipcovers allows you to play design dress-up.)
So those are just a few of the reasons the annual tradition of naming new colors of the year has a soulmate in furniture upholstery fabrics. The colors are designed for the moment and fabrics are ready to help you meet it.
Bonus: How To Add Instant Quietude To Your Home In 2025
Quietude. That’s HGTV’s color of the year, and — here at the largest online upholstery fabric store — we’re in love with the name alone. Quietude is a soothing spa-like green tone HGTV describes as “a softened sage green with a slight blue influence.”
Welcoming it into your home’s vibe with something like a jade small-scale textured striped chenille as an inviting bedroom slipper chair. Or step free of the world for a bit with blackout curtains in sage green coated linen.
As you’re getting to know the colors of the year and which ones are calling to you, we’re here to help you answer the call with the right and perfect fabrics to fit your home and budget. Give us a call today.