As 2024 wraps up and we all enjoy a little well-earned break, it’s also time to begin looking ahead to 2025. The new year offers a fresh start for all of us – and this includes our work and business as well as our personal lives.
Now is the perfect time to start thinking about how you might re-imagine your space for your future success, whether it’s an office, a retail store, a restaurant, a medical waiting room, or any other type of commercial premises. From small décor updates to complete de-fits or office make goods and refitting, CMLS Commercial Interiors can help you re-imagine your space to bring in fresh, new energy for you, your staff, and your clients/customers.
Let’s take a look at some interior design trends to watch for in 2025.
Commercial Interior Design Trends for 2025
- Maximalism – Is bold better? According to industry trend predictions for 2025, yes! This is an era of vibrant colours, bold patterns, juxtaposing textures, organic shapes, and rounded edges. Meeting rooms, shops, and other spaces that pop with complementary or contrasting hues, favouring curated symmetry or asymmetry, and eye-catching accents will bring new life to spaces that are welcoming, dynamic, and individualised.
- Free Desking – assigned spaces will be, in some offices, a thing of the past. Thanks to the popularity of hybrid workers splitting their time between working in the office and from home, many dedicated desks remain unoccupied much of the time. Free desking allows workstations to be shared. The benefit for businesses, where this is feasible, is needing fewer workstations than employees, as not all staff will ever be expected to be present in the office at the same time. Employers can reduce the office footprint while employees enjoy greater working flexibility.
- Sustainability – is always top of mind for environmentally aware businesses. One way to maximise this is through integrated technology – from fast internet connections for seamless virtual meetings to occupancy sensors that automatically adjust lighting and climate control systems in real-time; installing self-sufficient solar power options to maximising the use of natural light; there are many ways to improve your footprint for your space.
- Fewer Storage Needs – many offices, including medical, corporate, legal, etc, are going paperless, and not only does this reduce a business’s environmental footprint, but it also helps them reduce their storage needs. Digital files are now usually stored in the Cloud, eliminating the need for large filing cabinets and dedicated document storage areas/rooms. Existing storage rooms that previously housed files, copiers, and similar materials can be repurposed or renovated into quiet spaces, break rooms, workspaces, or small-group collaboration rooms.
- Biophilic Design – humans’ mood, motivation, creativity, productivity, and health improve when biophilic design is incorporated – bringing the outside world indoors. From using natural materials like wood, stone, bamboo, raffia, and cork to skylights, glass-brick walls, aquariums, green walls, running-water features, or even just potted plants, including natural elements is a powerful way to increase well-being and reduce stress.
- Acoustic Solutions – noise can be an issue in any commercial space. The right approach to acoustic solutions can also enhance your décor – think green walls, acoustic baffle ceilings, sound-absorbing wall panels, carpeting or cork floors, and sound-reducing office partitions.
- Inclusive Design – your space must be adapted for the safety and accessibility of employees, visitors, and clients. This means implementing design features that support the diverse needs of users. From safe access for the disabled, injured, elderly, and parents with prams/strollers (which is essential in many premises) to lactation rooms for nursing mothers, gender-neutral restrooms, meditation/prayer rooms, and more, it’s worth considering how your space meets the needs of its users.
- Collaboration – there will be a continued focus on layout reconfiguration to better support collaboration, connection, and team engagement. With modular and adaptive furnishings, flexibility is optimised for brainstorming, socialising, group meetings, and fostering community in the workplace.
Our Sydney shopfitter and office fit-out specialist can help you update and upgrade your commercial space. We work with clients from Penrith to Parramatta, throughout the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and beyond.
Merry Christmas from CMLS Commercial Interiors! All of the Team at CMLS Commercial Interiors would like to wish you the very best for a very happy Festive Season and a safe, peaceful New Year. We look forward to working with you in 2025!