Emerging style trends for 2024

This season homeowners will embrace bright colours and eye-catching patterns to inject some fun into their interiors. A big trend that’s already taking off is bold tiles. Whether adding some colour to their kitchen or elevating their bathroom’s look, now is the time for customers to experiment with different patterns, shades, textures, and shapes. Tiles enable you to mix and match colours and patterns to create visual interest, and using texture can add character to a space. This can be achieved with natural looking textures like brick or wood effect tiles or with more uniform geometric textures. This trend will facilitate huge growth in the tiles market between 2024 and 2031, so get your customers involved before it really takes off.

Muted hues will be everywhere with paint companies choosing pretty pastels like Dulux’s Sweet Embrace as their Colour of The Year. These calming shades make your home feel warm and inviting, while being soft enough for a relaxing space.

Green is also about to make a big splash, especially in vibrant variations like lime and emerald. In line with the increasing popularity of house plants, people want to bring nature into their home, so green can help to bring the outside in.

Kitchens are set to enter a new design age with a decline in white and greyscale fittings and a rise in popularity of warmer, bolder colours and natural woods. 

If your customers are struggling to decide on paint shades, show them the Wickes Paint Visualiser. This tool enables them to see how certain colours would look in their space, and once they’ve made their choice it will find the best available match.

Wall panels are a 70s staple that we expect to see in a lot of spaces in the form of slatted panels or moulding. Leaving wood panelling unpainted can bring a natural and chic look to your interior while painting it can help it to blend in and add some texture to your walls. It’s not a particularly complicated job, but it can add a touch of luxury to a room.

Wooden flooring is also a big trend coming into 2024, especially in pale shades. This is another way in which homeowners are trying to bring the outside in and add an organic feel to their home. While you can go for solid or engineered wood, vinyl and laminate are cost-effective options that still look great. You can also get different styles of wood or wood-effect flooring with a variety of shades and more visually interesting styles like herringbone parquet.