1stDibs Reveals 2024 Trends from its Annual Designer Survey

What’s IN and What’s OUT for Color, Motifs, Design and More

Sage green puts an end to emerald’s three-year streak and disco balls and checkprint are officially on the wane

NEW YORK, Nov. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 1stDibs, a leading marketplace for extraordinary design, has announced the results of its seventh annual Interior Designer Trends Survey, taken by 624 interior designers from around the world. The highly anticipated insights from the data help to predict and define the hottest trends of the upcoming year, as well as year-over-year change and design trends that are falling out of favor.

“As we head into 2024, it’s interesting to see the aesthetic shifts anticipated by interior designers, those discerning friends of ours who reliably lead the way in matters of style and taste,” said Anthony Barzilay Freund, Editorial Director, 1stDibs. “The results from our annual survey are in, and the experts have spoken: color preferences are changing, pattern affinity has evolved and much of what we saw trending on social media last year may no longer be embraced. We're forever grateful to our esteemed designer colleagues for sharing their insights with 1stDibs.”

Here’s what the interior designers had to say:

Part 1: What’s In for 2024

Color Trends: Earthy sage rises in the ranks against jewel tones
As evidenced by social media and the prevalence of emerald tones in home design, emerald has topped the charts for three years in a row. However, this reign as designers’ top prediction for popular colors has come to an end in 2024, with sage green taking the lead (by three percentage points) as the color that’s predicted to be most popular in 2024, garnering 26 percentage points versus emerald green’s 23%. The next top color contender is dark brown/chocolate at 21%, which moved up from sixth to third place year-over-year. It’s followed by burnt/dusty orange (19%), dark yellow/mustard (19%) and light brown/tan (17%), for an earthy 1970s inspired palette.

Color Trends: Blue Hues Rank High and Lavender Loses its Luster
Ranking just behind the earthy greens, tans and oranges are hues of blue, with light blue/robin’s egg blue trending upward in popularity and cobalt blue trending downward from the previous year. When asked to directly compare various hues of blue, cobalt still slightly bests light blue/robin’s egg blue, as 25% of designers expect this to be most popular in the color family followed by light blue/robin’s egg at 24% and navy at 23%. The purple color family is not predicted to be popular next year; lavender saw the most dramatic decrease, as its popularity dropped by half.