Good day and welcome to the EHD “Greatest Of Design” listing for 2025. We determined to attend until January (versus final 12 months) to present a full three hundred and sixty five days for the entire 2025 design content material to come back out, and I’m so comfortable we did as a result of I believe at the least a number of of the house excursions are from the tail finish. Anyway, this publish is pure design pleasure and pure design celebration. There are, after all, so many extra excursions and merchandise we might have talked about, however difficult ourselves to rein it in and decide just a few is an effective apply (and VERY laborious for me personally:)). Design is our love and obsession, so we hope you take pleasure in our picks as a lot as we do.
Emily
Reath Design is a agency we’ve been loving for years and years now. Most of their initiatives I really like, wish to have a look at and be within, however not essentially LIVE in full-time or personal. This isn’t a knock on her and her crew, I’m simply much less risk-averse and dare I say fundamental on a day-to-day foundation. Lots of her designs that I LOVE have intense and surprising colours and finishes, parts that I really like to take a look at however are too daring for me. However this home, oh this home, I might personal it in a second. I’m naturally actually drawn to heat minimalist mountain homes with a ton of pure gentle, however this one is stuffed with a lot heat, element, and actually livable design-forward parts. The kitchen particularly stopped my scroll – that tile choice and format is so placing and but feels so completely built-in. There may be this 70s vibe with all of the Doug fir paneling, and combined with the sq. tile, it feels each nostalgic and fashionable. Nicely executed, Reath crew (and nice job Laure for the beautiful pictures).
A splurge for certain, this lamp represents to me artists who collaborate to make one thing beautiful for the sake of the artwork. Jessica Helgerson designed this, and I’d think about she is aware of {that a} $4k lamp received’t make it into most houses, however she did it anyway, and it’s GORGOUS. So, within the identify of constructing artwork for the love of fine design and the fulfilling technique of creation, I wish to applaud her lighting line. She collaborated with a powerful glass blower, and what they created is gorgeous (and elusively costly, and subsequently I need one:)) (I really like the model with the oak base and blue glass shade).
Now, to distinction Jessica’s lamp with Studio McGee for Goal’s tremendous inexpensive and surprisingly high-end-looking chair. The form of the arms mimics plenty of French and Swedish designs (that are laborious to do in an inexpensive means). Perhaps I ought to shout out the producer for executing it so properly. Now, I haven’t purchased or sat on this personally, however so far as worth for aesthetics, this chair is so lovely and easy.
I’ve cherished grasscloth most of my design/grownup life (It’s kinda particular, so it doesn’t work all over the place), however I’m obsessive about this printed model by Sarah Sherman Samuel for Lulu and Georgia. The candy little tulip, with a easy repeat, might work in most conventional houses (certain, it leans cottage and granny, however when paired again, it’s only a good conventional motif). I really like that Sarah bridges candy with edgy in all of her designs. Kudos, Sarah!
Jess
This front room almost took my breath away. All I might suppose was how desperately I needed to soften into that sectional with the fireplace going and soak up each final element of the house (THOSE WOOD WALLS!!!). Since plenty of you already know me, you already know that this home has way more coloration than I’m recognized for utilizing in my very own areas. However this house excited me in a means that made me really feel alive (dramatic? possibly). So many kinds had been combined, so many colours, so many patterns, so many cool shapes! Not your typical chalet, which I additionally love. Danger after threat, and it makes me comfortable each time I have a look at it. Nicola Harding, what a house:)
So I’m dishonest just a little. This chair got here out in 2025, however this scrumptious cloth coloration, Bing Cherry, was launched this week. OH properly, I say! However let’s discuss this unimaginable chair. All I need in my life are snug, cool/interesting-looking chairs (which is why Child Barb exists:)). So whereas this one doesn’t have arms, I do know Sixpenny makes extremely snug furnishings and the again additionally seems very plush. Nevertheless, it’s actually the shapes of the legs/again which have my coronary heart skipping a beat. I simply suppose it’s lovely.
I’ll perpetually be grateful to Emily Bowser for suggesting I purchase this bolster pillow for my bed room makeover. The intent was to have it on the precise mattress (like a standard individual), nevertheless it simply didn’t work with the general look, so I caught it on high of my BEAUTIFUL Katy Sketlton bench (that will have additionally been a 2025 favourite, nevertheless it got here out earlier than final 12 months) briefly. I ended up loving it there, so it stayed! The colours had been too fairly, I really like a classy checkered print, and it’s actually smooth. The one bummer is that this coloration is at present bought out, however you may get notified when it’s again in inventory.
When you don’t suppose I believed lengthy and laborious about shopping for considered one of these for the nook of my bed room, you then merely don’t know me in any respect;) Sarah Sherman Samuel is, after all, behind these excellent little plinths in collaboration with Lulu and Georgia. I could by no means tire of a circle cut-out or simply shapes normally. And boy, do I do know the work that goes into DIYing one thing like this, and it’s NOT straightforward. Massive fan.
Mallory
My absolute favourite home tour (aside from Kendyl Jenner’s superb mountain home) was this seaside residence by Commune Design. Commune truly designed my final condominium constructing, and I’ve all the time been a very big fan of their work. This house is architecturally STUNNING, and the views are impeccable. However what I really like about it’s their use of coloration. They completely mix cobalt blue with the heat of wooden (THAT STAIR CASE!) and are masters on the “pop of coloration” with out it feeling jarring. I couldn’t love this residence extra.
A brilliant inexpensive however superb piece – this $99 Goal ottoman truly made me gasp the primary time I noticed it, and I’ve been dying to search out an excuse to purchase it for months now!!
These lamps have taken over Pinterest – they’re easy however have the right proportions, coloration, and I’m obsessive about the dainty ball finial on the highest!!
2025 was a HUGE 12 months for Dedar Milano Tiger Mountain cloth. I’ve been obsessive about this cloth for years now (I even had a particular pillow product of it from my favourite upholstery firm Stitchroom) – it’s been seeping into the furnishings world at an unimaginable pace, which I imagine is a testomony to how superb the design of this cloth is!
Gretchen
The one 2025 home tour I can’t appear to shake from my thoughts is Walton Goggins’ tour of his Hudson Valley residence with AD. Now, to be honest, I might’ve been just a little blinded by the person’s weird appeal to remain too centered on decor, however one thing about this video tour simply actually stood out to me among the many a whole lot I’d seen final 12 months. I’m a sucker for aged wooden, an outdated cabin really feel, houses with historical past, and this place is stuffed with it. The lounge areas are to die for, the first is SWEET (pun allll the best way supposed), and the speakeasy (Joan Crawford prohibition bar, watch the tour, you’ll see!) was past memorable. However his artwork assortment is unmatched, my favourite being the XL piece hanging in the lounge. In the case of good design, I’m principally a sucker for areas that inform a narrative, and this tour has so many. In fact, it doesn’t harm that the property is simply so spacious, lovely, and plopped smack-dab amongst insane surroundings. However a lot of the house’s nice design (to me) was discovered within the historical past preserved and honored there. I imply, what character! You’ll have to look at for your self to actually perceive what I imply. Aesthetically, I might 1000% see myself residing (past comfortably) right here. I wish to work in his workplace subsequent to the enormous cork wall, have a drink from the tucked-away bar house, and a seat in considered one of his dreamy patchwork leather-based chairs. So good!!
My favourite product of the 12 months is one I (lastly) purchased for myself when Schoolhouse was having a loopy 60% off sale a number of weeks in the past. When you didn’t catch it…I’m sorry. This was a little bit of a bittersweet purchase (bye), with the information that Schoolhouse/Food52 filed for chapter. Schoolhouse product was a staple in numerous our initiatives (like Kaitlin’s front room or Em’s), and it was straightforward to fall much more in love with their stock (that Pendleton quilt??). All of their quilts are like eye sweet to me, however after I noticed the collab with Rachel Murray (a Portland artist whose work I’ve admired for some time now), I about died. After eyeballing her assortment all 12 months, I lastly bit the bullet and purchased myself this quilt/sham combo within the hotter tones (and I’m certain glad I did as a result of now each are bought out). The second it arrived, I ripped it open, unfold it out on my mattress, and by no means seemed again. It actually seems like a murals in there, and the colours are actually inspiring me to complete designing the house. I couldn’t assist myself and likewise picked up her lengthy, bolster pillow, which lives completely on the leather-based sofa in my front room. Seeing little pops of her work round my residence simply fills me up inside. I’m bummed for Schoolhouse’s state of affairs and hope they discover a solution to hold making cool stuff, however I’m grateful to have these items residence to cherish for all times!
I’d love to present another product shout-out to our Child Barb–EHD’s collective favourite little-big couch chair from Room Service. Aptly named after the most effective pig on the farm (don’t inform Alisha), the Barb chair-and-a-half in chocolate brown received my coronary heart in 2025. It has discovered the right spot in Ken’s home, but when I had the house, it will FOR SURE stay in mine too. The strains are dreamy, the dimensions is excellent, and the fabric? So luxe, so cozyyyy.
Marlee
My favourite home tour of 2025 was this historic residence positioned in SE Portland, for considerably of a egocentric motive. I stroll previous this home weekly, and it’s fairly actually not possible for me to cross it with out saying, “Wow, I ponder what it seems like inside.” So I used to be soooo excited when this tour was launched – I cherished the backyard parts and the best way the designers honored the house’s (and neighborhood’s) historical past. A lot WHIMSY!!!!
I used to be at IKEA final month and noticed this cool pleated lamp that was of their vacation part – however I believe it deserves to stay year-round. It offers off such a smooth, fairly glow, and I really like the pink element. It’s additionally so so so inexpensive (actually $14 proper now), and each person who’s been to my home makes a observe of it. I’m undecided if will probably be round for lengthy, so snag it whereas it’s nonetheless obtainable:)
Arlyn
Because the resident EHD color-over-everything espouser, for those who noticed the house reveal of meals content material creator and cookbook writer Dan Pelosi of Grossy Pelosi on Domino early final 12 months, it ought to come as no shock that it’s my favourite residence function of the 12 months. Belief me, I’ve an absolute arsenal of extremely stylish and ideal residence excursions and images stashed away in my saved folders, however month after month, I couldn’t get this Hudson Valley, New York, residence out of my head. It has a lot coronary heart and soul, a lot coloration inspiration, it’s a more-is-more state of affairs that’s like design Velcro to my mind. I adopted his residence search after which renovation for the higher a part of two years, so, in some sense, I’m extra linked to it than any others I noticed featured in Architectural Digest, as an example. It’s an explosion of jewel tones, wallpaper prints, and picked up artwork. Don’t miss it for those who’re a fellow coloration lover.
As for merchandise I’m placing on a pedestal from final 12 months, it’s a mixture of issues I’ve actually contemplated getting for my residence and issues I’ve admired from afar that I might by no means justify buying.
Sarah Sherman Samuel retains making hits for Lulu & Georgia, together with this incredible piece, the Trudy Modular Couch. The worth level is properly above what I’d be keen to spend on a modern couch at this level in my life with a younger little one, however I certain can dream, can’t I?
Right here’s one other “I might by no means truly spend this a lot cash on a quilt, however I adore it a lot” decide. When you occur to have the funds for an almost $600 quilt after tax, please, I urge of you, purchase this lovely quilt from Toast and consider me each time you tuck your self into your beautiful, luxe mattress.
Pierce & Ward’s line that launched this 12 months with West Elm completely blew me away. I’ve lengthy been a fan of their work, so to have entry to their design at a mainstream worth level was an enormous deal. Did I purchase any of it? No, contemplating I’ve no room in my home for actually anything, however I believe I included their curtains in at the least 5 tales and roundups (possibly extra). The small print are placing, simply have a look at the legs on that step stool.
I’m SO pleased with my pal, Fariha Nasir of Pennies for a Fortune, for launching her assortment with Chasing Paper this 12 months. Fariha and I are wrapping up writing her first espresso desk guide (due out subsequent fall!!), and as if that wasn’t sufficient work mixed with operating her platforms—and mothering two younger boys—she was completely decided to have a wallpaper line, and that lady DID IT. To not point out it’s beautiful, and I’d be glad to have her papers in my residence if I had the motivation to do something additional in my present rental. However as soon as I’m a house owner, it’s on. 🙂
There you might have it! Designs that stole our 2025 hearts. We’d like to know yours!? Any right here that resonated with you? Excited for what 2026 has to convey!
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