2022 Design Trend: Dream Weaver Is Design as Self-Care

The 2022 home trend Dream Weaver is all about bringing wellness into the home. Soothing, de-cluttered spaces and a peaceful, pastel color palette provide a restful experience for the eyes. Enveloping furniture and cozy fabrics allow us to lean in to comfort. Dream Weaver is all about muted colors, dreamy cloud-like and watercolor patterns and soft, inviting surfaces. Spaces center on self-care, which means cozy nooks and places to cat nap and read. It also means ethereal, translucent fabrics and objects, dried flowers and floral patterns and a shade of pink that is gender-blind.

Therapeutic spaces for rest and recuperation that allow people to recharge are central to Dream Weaver. Yoga studio tranquility and wellness-inspired design mean spa bathrooms featuring soaking tubs, bedrooms designed for the best sleep and spaces for unplugging and napping will be important for physical and mental recovery.

Stained glass, translucent resin, sheer chiffon, pastel glass, fragile eggshell and porcelain surfaces and inky brushstrokes and watercolor treatments lend calm and delicacy to the home as part of the Dream Weaver trend.

Japanese-inspired abstract floral motifs on statement walls, in tableware and artwork and ethereal dried flowers convey this trend’s dreamy delicacy.

Psychologically soothing, delicate shades of vanilla, blush and seafoam are new when balanced with saturated pastels of merlot and gray lilac in Dream Weaver.

More attractive to the eye and less jarring than sharp angles, organic, flowing, ribbon forms bring movement to interior design.

Foams, gels, botanical ingredients and soothing scents in skincare products will bring unexpected pleasures to our daily rituals in the wellness-centered Dream Weaver trend. Smart and sensitive lighting will regulate mood and balance our circadian rhythms, adjusting to wake us up or lull us to sleep.

“Getting away from rigid lines seems to be a huge way to make spaces feel more balanced with a mix of fluid lines and rectilinear shapes,” says HGTV designer Brian Patrick Flynn of Dream Weaver's fresh trend for ribbon forms. Flowing, wavy forms will dominate home decor. These shapes are more attractive to the eye and less jarring than harsh, sharp angles. Organic, flowing, playful forms bring joy to interior design.

Home design will begin to mirror our internal quest for tranquility in Dream Weaver. Look for colors that relax and calm.

Scandi-influenced design has made major inroads into our homes. But in 2022, we will see Nordic parenting styles, including more nature play and outdoor napping, catching on in America. Outdoor napping and forest playing will introduce fresh approaches to human interaction and innovative products in the same way the Scandinavian approach influenced interior design.

“I can see a new wave moving towards the celebration of perfectly imperfect composition, and interior designers leaning more on local contractors and artists for customized and handcrafted pieces.” says HGTV designer Jeremiah Brent.

This elegant, fresh take on the boho trend will see mixing of textures and colors, and an emphasis on statement plants with graphic foliage, blooms with an ombre effect like sedum and the lacy texture of Japanese maples.

Gardens will feature movement and sound (grasses, wind chimes), fragrance (nostalgic classics like lilacs and gardenias), happy pinks and yellows and include medicinal gardens in which plants can be used for health and wellness.

Journaling, letter-writing and scrapbooking will take on renewed significance in Dream Weaver in an age when handwriting is often not part of the school curriculum. These practices offer ways of connecting with others, expressing gratitude, encouraging introspection and celebrating memory, family and the healing power of nostalgia.