Top interiors picks for 2025: what our favourite London designers are buying for their own homes

Scribbled connected a jotter by the fridge oregon cautiously colour-coded successful a spreadsheet, lists are ever revealing —whether they’re for groceries, countries to sojourn oregon beauteous objects to brighten up your home.

Which is wherefore we asked a acceptable of tastemakers what’s connected their interiors to-do database for 2025.

From playful wallpaper to unsocial lighting, these ideas mightiness spark a database of your own ...

The walls of Chambers’s westbound London location are laden with art, but she’s reshuffling her postulation to invited a caller quartet to her sitting room.

Having recovered Véronique Villaret, a French creator who collaborates with Christian Dior and Pierre Frey, connected Instagram, she invited her to beryllium portion of Collagerie’s Art Shop.

“They’re conscionable truthful sensational and uplifting,” she says of Villaret’s graphic schemes.

Chambers has them made to bid by a print-maker successful Somerset and if you bargain them framed, the container mounts are lined successful gloriously clashing tones. “People can’t judge they are prints,” she says.

“We instrumentality our java arsenic earnestly arsenic we instrumentality our fashion,” laughs Cluroe — a person of an oat beverage level achromatic — speaking for some himself and plain black-sipping Whitehead, his spouse successful life, enactment and design.

“When we discovered Anza portion browsing 1 of our favourite manner stores online, it was emotion astatine archetypal sight!” helium says.

California-based Anza is champion known for its directional java instrumentality wrapped successful hand-cast concrete.

“It’s chill yet timeless and is decidedly connected our acquisition database this year,” says Cluroe.

The mates person already made a large 2025 concern successful the signifier of a caller spot successful Shoreditch, which needs renovating.

Surely this brutalist spot of kit tin wait? “We walk truthful overmuch locally connected take-out java we privation to up our at-home game,” justifies Cluroe. Who are we to argue?

“Pendant lights are a spot of a bugbear of mine,” admits Porter, adding: “I deliberation truthful galore are ghastly. So erstwhile I spot 1 that catches my eye, they enactment with maine for immoderate time.”

Enter southbound London lighting workplace Palefire. Its flamboyant styles question to situation the minimalist aesthetic dominating the mediate market.

Porter has her oculus connected the cloche pendant airy adorned with serpentine swirls, which is crafted from insubstantial pulp and features an adjustable cord to get the temper conscionable right.

“When I moved into my house, I was fortunate capable to bargain an Alex Robinson Wobble light, which I’d archetypal seen years earlier successful (antiques consultant) Guy Tobin’s house,” she says.

“This Palefire benignant is conscionable the portion I request to adhd an creator flair to my landing.”

Hurd is different aesthete who is “manic” (in his ain words) astir ambient lighting.

“It tin marque oregon interruption a room,” helium explains. “Too agleam and you’re sitting successful a dentist’s chair, excessively acheronian and earlier you cognize it you’ve gone to enactment your solid down and it’s ended up each implicit your caller carpet.

“You privation to beryllium capable to spot people’s faces, but not their pores.”

His solution? Green Wolf’s portable Murano solid lamps, each of which is simply a miniature artwork successful its ain right.

His prime is designed by Solange Azagury-Partridge. “In a tiny abstraction it’s adjuvant to person pieces that are easy movable: ft stools that tin go tables, tables that tin go seats; and lamps that tin beryllium moved to item oregon fell areas of your choice,” Hurd says.

“That’s wherefore I emotion rechargeable, cord-free lighting, you tin plonk it down wherever and it volition rather virtually airy up the room.”

Murano solid array airy by Green Wolf Lighting (£570, abask.com)

Former Soho House decorator Boronkay is successful the mediate of renovating her ain home.

On her moodboard is Beata Heuman’s eyelash wallpaper. “I find myself drawn to it due to the fact that it reflects my emotion for graphic patterns portion adding a interaction of playful intrigue,” says Boronkay.

“The hidden eyes tucked distant successful the plan inject a whimsical constituent that rewards person inspection, inviting viewers to instrumentality a 2nd glance.

“I ever worth designs that archer a subtle communicative and bring a consciousness of astonishment to a space, making this wallpaper precise fitting to my originative vision,” she says.

To cognize Williams is to cognize of the designer’s unbridled affection for each things retro.

Rather than covet a woody level similar everybody else, she’s eyeing up immoderate deliciously glossy greenish tiles.

“I privation to laic them successful a digit artifact signifier crossed my lounge and open-plan room space,” she explains.

“The greenish makes it much of a feature, and it is specified a large ‘neutral’ successful keeping with my emotion of the mid-century palette.”

Marlborough porcelain parquet tiles successful wood greenish gloss (£79 for a container of 28, capietra.com)

“Whether you opt for bold, modern pieces oregon timeless classics, creation tin beryllium the champion conversation-starter for guests,” says hosting supremo Jackson, whose location features a premix of intriguing photography, canvases and prints.

“A caller portion oregon a amusive framework is specified an casual mode to explicit your ain idiosyncratic style,” she adds.

Don’t beryllium acrophobic to premix and match: connected Jackson’s wishlist is simply a reddish and pick striped framework by Studio Simone, paired with a much subdued people by Rose England.

Tomato mayo framework by Studio Simone (£75); astral blooms people by Rose England (£50, some glassette.com)

Dauley has utilized limewash from Bauwerk — a German marque — truthful overmuch successful her enactment that she’s present coveting it for ain home.

“I emotion however it adds a furniture of magnitude and quality to immoderate space,” she says.

“In the aforesaid mode I attack each of my projects, the manner and wellbeing of the lawsuit (in this case, yours truly), should beryllium the superior information — and limewash is cleanable for creating a ‘sanctuary-like’ space.”