🔥 Hot: The biggest TikTok design trends of 2025, according to designers

If you’re thinking of refreshing your space this year, TikTok is swarming with inspiration. The social media platform’s home sector has over 7.6 million videos to browse through, with spotlights on the emerging interior design trends of 2025 on the rise. More here: (Source)

The S/M Take: 

This story was nearly an eulogy, and by the time you read this, it may be one. But as of today TikTok is alive and kicking, and man does it have influence. Politics aside, if your brand is influenced by viral trends, you cannot dismiss the gravity of TikTok for interior design marketing. At least for now.

🔥 Also Hot: All the coolest (and craziest) smart home debuts at CES

As the giant trade show wrapped up in Las Vegas last week, it was clear that AI-powered products — especially for the home — had taken center stage. More here: (Source)

30 tiny houses that are making the best of it

Whether living small is a choice or a necessity, it doesn’t have to feel uncomfortable or restrictive.
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❌ Not: The home design trends millennials have had enough of

The home design trends that millennials are most likely to reject have been revealed, with animal print their least favorite. The study asked 2,000 Americans about their decor opinions and discovered the trends that each generation likes and dislikes. More here: (Source)

The S/M Take: 

Changing tastes are the lifeblood of our industry; otherwise we’d just live with our grandmother’s wallpaper for 75 years and there would be a lot less home improvement. But that doesn’t spare trendwatching (and trendmaking) from controversy. So let’s dig this hole a little deeper, and beat up door cams and open floorplans…

❌ Also Not: Are your smart home cameras spying on you?

Smart home camera apps are collecting sensitive personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, payment details, precise location and more. More here: (Source)

Are open floor plans over?

Open floor plans are often touted as a highly sought-after design feature — but it appears that the love affair with them could be coming to an end.
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Customers call out paint company over controversial name found on store shelf: 'Seems ... really scary'

It may be true that a good paint job warms up a room, but social media users have called into question a paint name tied to the planet's overheating.

"'Climate Change' seems like a really scary name for a paint chip of a wispy, moss-tinted white that would look great in my bathroom," wrote one Redditor. More here: (Source)

The S/M Take: 

Clearly the folks at Behr were listening to audience insights on Reddit, because in the last few weeks “Climate Change” has vanished from their catalog. What remains, however, is the equally terrifying (but quite lovely) “Tornado Season.”