Take a Look Back at 25 Years of Design Trends

25 years have come and gone since the turn of the century — and countless design trends with them. Whether you loved them or hated them, take a look back at the hottest design ideas that have influenced our homes since the year 2000 — from boho bedrooms and Tuscan kitchens to farmhouse flair, Nancy Meyers style and beyond. Read on to cue the nostalgia.

Kitchen designers have been drenching spaces in green: In a poll by the National Kitchen and Bath Association, 76 percent said green is their go-to color.

The summer Olympics reignited our love affair with Paris-born deco design. Tastemaker Athena Calderone leaned in, partnering with Crate & Barrel on a collection inspired by the century-old movement.

The luxury antiques site 1stDibs saw a 20 percent rise in searches for furniture from the ’70s, and artists designed groovy patterned wallpaper for major brands like Spoonflower and Wallshoppe.

We continued gravitating toward minimalist Scandinavian style, and homeowners started choosing moody paint colors like midnight blue, charcoal and black for their houses. Both the HGTV Dream Home and the HGTV Urban Oasis were dark this year.

As we got used to spending more time at home, we discovered hygge (hyoo-guh), the Danish art of getting cozy. We started buying plusher sofas and fluffier blankets; CB2 and Anthropologie launched pieces covered in nubby bouclé.

Everyone was working from home and designing workspaces with pretty desks, comfortable chairs and perfect Zoom backgrounds. We shopped a lot: Herman Miller reported that home office furniture sales tripled.

Jonathan Adler brought his signature geometric patterns to the masses with small accessories for Amazon — like the speckled vase on the console in this mod living room.

Millennial renters and first-time homeowners were looking for affordable decor and embraced budget-friendly, Instagrammable finds like rattan furniture and accessories, macramé wall hangings, shaggy rugs and thrift store finds.

This soft, rosy shade became the defining color of a generation. Pinterest searches for pink doubled, and housewares companies joined in. Le Creuset released Sugar Pink Matte dutch ovens.

Marie Kondo became a household name as The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up held its place on the bestseller list. We spent hours folding our T-shirts and scanning rooms for items to toss (after thanking them, of course).

Etsy went public, and botanical motifs and woodland creatures (especially foxes, like the one on the Betsy Olmsted pillow here) took over our lives. Rife Paper Co. expanded its woodsy forals into housewares, and The Land of Nod featured Forest Pop wall decor and Mod Botanicals decals in their fall line.

Chip and Joanna Gaines hit our screens with Fixer Upper and sparked a nationwide obsession with white paint, black iron accents and shiplap.

HGTV’s show Flea Market Flip made DIY-ing seem extra doable. Recycled glass bottle? Use it as a vase! A dingy dresser? Paint it a color that pops!

The Missoni for Target collection immediately sold out, making chevron the go-to pattern. It showed up on rugs, drapes, furniture — and the pages of HGTV Magazine!

Pinterest grew rapidly this year, reaching 11 million visits per week. Creating a vision board became easier than ever: Home decorators could easily search for inspiration on current trends like Moroccan poufs.

Sherwin-Williams declared this year was the beginning of the “graying of America.” While the economy struggled to recover, we liked our decor stripped down. Edison bulbs became a design staple, and we covered walls in many shades of gray.

IKEA released the wildly popular Maskros pendant and flipped the switch on dining room decor: Tables got simple and the lighting went dramatic.

Mad Men returned for its second season, and we were all taken by the decor. Google searches for “midcentury modern” shot up 100 percent and major brands responded: West Elm soon added sideboards and streamlined sofas to its Mid-Century collection.

In the wake of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, an eco-conscious decorating movement emerged. New energy-efficient lighting gained popularity, including skylights, and environmentally minded brands like Method and Uncommon Goods went mainstream.

The economy was booming, and we went big on the luxe look of the ’30s and ’40s. The splashy release of the book In the Pink: Dorothy Draper (about the pioneering designer of that era) made us even bigger fans.

Pantone named Blue Turquoise the official color of the year. Its best friend: chocolate brown. The pretty, pleasing combo went everywhere together and appeared in countless weddings.

"Something’s Gotta Give" was a smash hit and kicked off an obsession with the Nancy Meyers aesthetic, an elevated coastal style that includes polished upholstered furniture, classic stripes and layers of calming beiges and whites. (TikTok now has more than 34,000 videos about getting the Nancy Meyers look.)

Bored of generic white kitchens, designers started creating massive ones with Mediterranean-villa touches like ornate wood cabinetry, oil-rubbed-bronze fixtures and granite countertops — a top choice this year, according to the National Kitchen and Bath Association.

Nothing to see here! Philippe Starck released his iconic Louis Ghost chair, making way for lots of polycarbonate, acrylic and Lucite furniture. These chairs are a 21st-century twist on 18th-century design.

Slipcovered sofas, distressed wood furniture, frills and florals hit the scene as we took a sharp turn away from the future. Designer Rachel Ashwell’s new book, The Shabby Chic Home, helped us nail the cozy English cottage look.