The 56th China International Furniture Fair (Shanghai)
September 9-12, 2025

Shanghai Home Furnishing Expo|The most popular home design of 2024

2024-09-19 11:37:33

Although it has just entered the early autumn, the autumn and winter fashion trend has quietly swept the major fashion magazines. For the same can show personal style and taste of home decoration, decoration design trends in Shanghai Home Furnishing Expo is also deeply concerned. Unlike the rapidly changing fashion circle, the fashion direction of the home circle seems to turn more slowly, leaving more time for people to taste. The hot home design style at the beginning of 2024 continued in the second half of the year, and there was also a shift to innovation.

 

At present, the pace of life continues to accelerate, people are more yearning for a comfortable and comfortable lifestyle, so the trend of home improvement is also around the theme of nature, minimalism, intelligence, sensory, safety and health, paying more attention to comfort and functionality.

 

Multi-functional space layout

 

More and more urban population, high-rise more and more dense, per capita living area is compressed, how to use the limited space to create more functions? It is a problem that urban residents have to think about.

 

Multi-functional furniture, integration and open design are becoming more and more popular. Through the "function superposition" design, a variety of functions are collected in the same space or furniture, and more functions of the space are excavated, so as to optimize the utilization rate of space. In the functional layout, break the traditional functional layout, and design the fitness area, pet area, reading area and so on at home to enrich the interest of life.

 

For example, by creating a small reading/working area in the corner of the living room, the open layout makes the space more transparent and large, and also saves space for a study. The custom furniture makes a simple division of the space function without interrupting the coherence and integrity of the space, showing the extraordinary creativity and taste of the occupants.

 

 

The application of natural elements

 

People confined to the city, the desire for nature never diminishes, can not cross the mountains, lakes and seas anytime and anywhere, then build a symbiotic home with nature. The "pro-nature" design trend will continue to be popular: using natural elements directly or imitating nature through design to create more harmonious home Spaces.

 

The natural texture of rock slab and marble has become a hot spot. This natural element with both texture and humanistic temperament is like a fixed frame of time and exudes meaningful beauty.

 

The natural texture of the log material is filled with a kind of aesthetic feeling without carving, which injects a warm and natural atmosphere into the space. Hardinstalled with wooden floor or matte floor as the base, custom furniture using raw wood color + cream white, soft installation with cotton, hemp, green plants and other natural materials, to add a peaceful and peaceful force to the entire space.

 


Color diversity

 

Home is a feeling. Psychologists have shown that living space must be built on emotional space. Color is the most expressive element of soft clothing, which affects the emotional tone of the space and gives the space a romantic background color.

 

 

"Dopamine wind", "peppermint Mambo color", "Maillard color", the color style that has been exploding in the past two years has declared people's preference for color. Color as an expression of emotions, bright, bold and diverse colors applied in home decoration design, can add personality and charm, create happiness and pleasant emotions.

 

Low natural colors such as calm green tones, neutral gray, beige, and milk tea provide relaxation and warm emotional value, bringing the residents into a wonderful and soothing atmosphere.

 

Retro fashion returns

 

If fashion is a reincarnation, then retro style is always the trend. In 2024, the retro style home decoration has once again attracted attention, revealing a new aesthetic and becoming more and more popular with young people.

 

"American Retro" is comfortable and practical, open and flexible; "French retro" elegant and romantic, delicate and warm; "Chinese retro" full of Chinese historical sense and cultural heritage......

 

The retro and nostalgic elements integrated into the custom furniture and soft clothing create a home atmosphere full of nostalgia, as if people pass through time and feel the precipitation of history. This style is never tired of seeing, and its charm becomes more and more apparent over time.

 

 

Aesthetic trend of science and technology

 

With the development of science and technology and the upgrading of consumption, our way of life has been completely changed, and the pursuit of a more convenient and high-quality life has derived a new round of "lazy economy" upsurge.

 

If you want to learn more about the Home furnishing industry, please visit the Shanghai Home Furnishing Expo website for more information.

 

Source: smartdeco01

If there is infringement, please contact delete.