It’s not uncommon for interior design buffs to update their homes each season. So, with crunchy leaves already around the corner, I got to wondering what home decor is going to be popular this fall.
And no, I don’t mean what jack-o’-lantern carvings are going to be on stoops—I mean what autumnal colors people are going to be using to decorate their homes.
To find out, I turned to three interior designers: Christina Cruz, Owner and Principal Designer of Christina Cruz Interiors in Austin, Andrea DeRosa, co-founder of Avenue Interior Design in Los Angeles, and Olga Naiman, founder of design studio Spatial Alchemy and the author of the book Spatial Alchemy.
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All three designers agree on one color they foresee making a major splash in home decor this fall—a gorgeous, rich shade that’s simultaneously a neutral and a jewel tone. “It brings warmth and personality to a space while still feeling timeless,” Cruz tells Parade.
Below, the designers share why they love this color so much for fall, how to incorporate it into your home and a few other hues you can expect to see popping in homes this autumn.
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Why Designers Say Deep Plum Will Be Everywhere This Fall
The color that Cruz, DeRosa and Naiman think people will be using in their homes this fall is deep plum—a dark shade of purple with traces of red and brown.
“This fall, I think we’re going to see deep plum make a major return to interiors,” Cruz tells Parade. Here are three reasons these designers love deep plum for fall.
1. Deep plum is a more playful choice than autumnal browns.
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“It has the richness and warmth we naturally crave as the seasons change,” Cruz says of deep plum, “but it feels a little more unexpected than the browns and burgundies we typically associate with fall.”
DeRosa echoes this sentiment, explaining that “deep plum feels especially right for fall because it brings the richness we naturally gravitate toward as the seasons change, but with a little more personality than traditional burgundy or chocolate brown.”
2. Deep plum can serve as a neutral—and it nicely complements other neutrals.
Deep plum has the unique ability to “almost behave like a neutral when it’s used in a deeper, muddier tone,” according to Cruz, and it can give “a room depth without making it feel overly colorful.”
The hue also compliments a variety of organic materials, such as walnut, marble and unlacquered brass, per Cruz, while DeRosa adds that deep plum looks fantastic alongside warm neutrals, natural woods and aged metals.
“We’re seeing people become much more confident about bringing color back into their homes,” Cruz adds, “and plum is a wonderful next step because it feels both dramatic and incredibly livable.”
“It’s dramatic enough to make an impact, yet its muted, earthy undertones keep it from feeling too bold or trendy,” DeRosa says. “We are collectively finished with the beige years, but people are not reaching for bright color,” adds Naiman.
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3. Deep plum can make a space feel calm and cozy.
Naiman actually recently painted her pantry a shade of deep plum: Purple Brown by Little Greene.
“What struck me is how safe the room feels to stand in,” she says about her pantry. “At a time when so much outside the house feels chaotic, people want rooms that make them feel contained, rooted and grounded, and deep plum does that in a way a brighter color cannot.”
DeRosa adds that when used as an accent color, deep plum can “add depth and a coziness to a room.”
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How to Decorate Your House Using Deep Plum
Here are a few of the designers’ favorite ways to incorporate deep plum into home design.
1. Color-drench a small room.
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“A powder room, library or cocktail room is the perfect place to fully embrace deep plum,” says Cruz. “Carrying the color across the walls, trim and even cabinetry creates an immersive, cocooning feeling that can completely transform a smaller space.”
Naiman also recommends saturating a small room’s “walls, trim and ceiling all in the same plum,” such as a study, back hallway or stairwell. “Small rooms are where people are most afraid of dark color and where dark color actually performs best,” she says.
2. Utilize deep plum upholstery.
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All three designers are fans of embracing deep plum upholstery (ideally in velvet!), whether it’s a headboard, chair, pillow, throw blanket or rug.
“If you’re not ready to commit to plum furniture or paint, textiles are an easy way to experiment with the color,” explains DeRosa. This can help give a “neutral room more depth and these pieces can easily be swapped out as your taste changes.”
Cruz suggests a headboard or chair in deep plum, alongside an earthy color palette. “It gives you that beautiful saturated moment without requiring the entire room to revolve around the color, and it looks especially beautiful paired with walnut, olive green and warm stone,” she says.
Naiman agrees, noting that just one deep plum accent piece of furniture “will hold a room for years in a way a trend color will not.”
3. Introduce deep plum lighting fixtures.
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A lamp with a deep plum shade or base “is one of the chicest ways to use the color and one of the easiest,” says Naiman. “The light coming through a plum shade is warm rather than white, so it changes the whole feel of a room at night without your having to commit to anything permanent.”
Designers Say These Colors Will Also Dominate Homes This Fall
1. Chocolate brown
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“Painting a room chocolate brown will change its whole flavor, and it works especially well if the anchor pieces you already own are neutral,” says Naiman. “You do not have to replace anything. The walls do the work and the furniture you have suddenly reads differently.”
2. Olive
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All three designers point to olive as a prominent color for this autumn. “Olive is one of those colors that almost functions as a neutral, which is why I think it has so much staying power,” says Cruz.
“Olive functions as a neutral in its own right, which is why it sits so easily next to other neutrals,” adds Naiman. “It gives you the depth of a real color without asking you to build a whole scheme around it.”
DeRosa is specifically a fan of “dusty” olive, which “has the earthy quality we love about green but its muted undertones make it feel warmer and more sophisticated for fall.”
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3. Burnt ochre
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“Burnt ochre has become a major color in interiors,” says Cruz. “It has that beautiful golden warmth we associate with fall, but in a more earthy, sophisticated way.”
Similarly, warm caramel is on DeRosa’s list for fall. She notes that the shade “introduces a soft autumn palette that still allows for versatility” and “can transition through most seasons effortlessly.”
4. Mustard
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Earthy shades of yellow, such as mustard, are “yellow without the aggression, without the in-your-face quality that keeps people away from the color,” says Naiman. “That makes them usable in rooms where a brighter yellow would be exhausting to live with.”
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