We’re taking a look at the lighting trends for 2025 with advice on how to refresh your interior design for the new season by switching up your lamps and lights. We’ll also cover the lighting options and upgrades available in your new Redrow home via My Redrow. Redrow’s interior designer Alysha Alli explains all the new season must haves and how we already integrate these trends into our award-winning show homes!
Seven lighting trends for 2025
The eclectic array of new season lighting trends offers something for everyone – from angled sophistication and metallics through to colourful creations and expertly handcrafted styles. Here are seven new trends we love:
1. Sophisticated silver
Taking the form of industrial styles with a futuristic perspective, streamlined designs and layered lighting like our Alana option below are big news for 2025.
2. New angularity
Influenced by space travel and technology, retro angles are being launched into the 21st century. Our Cohen ceiling light reflects this trend, having been inspired by the space-age styles of the 1960s.
3. Carved and sculpted
This lighting trend embraces the natural variations in stone and wood and this imperfect effect creates an exquisite finish for statement lamp bases to bring ambient lighting to your living room or dining room.
4. Bold and bright with contemporary silhouettes
Lighting can be one area of your interior design where you can play with a more daring style. It can also be a fun way to brighten up a neutral backdrop and great for children’s rooms. See our article on interior design trends for 2025 for more on the new season colours.
5. Complex craft utilising artisanal techniques
One of the big lighting trends for 2025 is for items that are expertly handcrafted. Sculpted ceramic bases in matt white and black are everywhere. So too are shades with oversized proportions, woven from raffia and rattan. Hand applied gold leaf, like that of our Epstein option, is also on-trend.
6. Heirlooms revisited
By prioritising items that bring sentimental value as a keepsake in your home, you can create a classic, eclectic look. We love oversized chandeliers, with are perennially in vogue, and elegant bedside lamps in timeless styles.
7. Glamorous darks influenced by alluring gothic aesthetics
Chandelier style pendants with gothic influences like our Ambassador option or retro style matt black fixtures like the Cohen, both available on My Redrow, reflect this intriguing trend.
What lighting options are available from My Redrow?
Lighting can be added as an upgrade in most areas of your new home via our members’ area of the website My Redrow. Why not make a statement in your hallway or landing with a spectacular circular six-light pendant or in your bedroom with a curved and contemporary ceiling light? Options vary between locations. Here are 12 of our favourite lighting choices available:
1. Ambassador – an elegant and modern light fitting from Där. Finished in satin chrome it features a central ribbed column and four candle-esque lights – perfect for an elegant lounge or dining area.
2. Cohen – a seven light ceiling fitting, in matt black and opal glass, reminiscent of the sputnik chandelier popularised in the sixties. This beautiful light fixture combines the trends for new angularity and glamorous darks.
3. Puglia – this geometric design on a single curve is balanced by six lights, on three arms, with a semi-flush ceiling fitting, a stunning addition to a bedroom or living room design.
4. Sorrento –this lighting design from Laura Ashley is subtle and sophisticated, with three armed lights, all encased in a single contemporary drum shade in sleek ivory silk-effect fabric.
5. Alana – this six-light pendant, with retro shaped bulbs, is finished in satin chrome with a black cloth-covered cable for an authentic industrial look, reflecting both the silver and angular trends.
6. Acura – a laser cut polished chrome frame encases an elegant luxury white faux silk shade. Inside are five lights within a glass diffuser which looks stylish in a lounge or main bedroom.
7. Epstein – this four-light pendant features a geometric patterned frame with a hand applied, distressed, gold leaf finish and an ivory linen shade. It’s inspired by nature with its honeycomb shape.
8. Tyler – an elegant, contemporary fitting from Där, in a warm brushed bronze finish.
9. Eloise – this nine-light design is akin to a piece of art and embraces biophilic design with its branching bud shaped glass shades giving it an organic appearance.
10. The Oslo – a flush fit ceiling light by Där, it has a contemporary finish with a polished chrome spoked frame and faux organza ribbon.
11. Isaac – this single pendant, from Laura Ashley, boasts bold lines and angular shapes lending a sophisticated, contemporary touch to a kitchen island or dining area.
12. Rye – a clear glass goblet with a decorative vintage polished nickel fitting, from Laura Ashley, presents an elegant aesthetic as a ceiling light or above a breakfast bar.
In all our designs, sunlight is welcomed into our homes through feature bays, large windows, and patio doors. Open plan layouts ensure natural light flows throughout the kitchen, dining and family spaces. While mood lighting is important to create the right ambience, we’ve included practical lights within options and extras too. Brushed or polished chrome downlights in kitchens provide a subtle source of brightness, perfect for cooking and reading recipes, while you can add additional downlights and pendant above the kitchen island or breakfast bar.
Additional kitchen lighting ideas you could incorporate into your home decor include smart lighting like LED strips, which can be strategically placed beneath countertops to under cabinet kickboards – and coordinated using your smart device.
Other smart light technology such as dimmable bulbs are a great way to ensure your lighting can be toned down or brightened up to suit your mood or the task at hand. Consider whether to add white or yellow toned bulbs depending on whether you want a daylight effect or more warmth.
Read our guide to the top kitchen design trends or visit your preferred development to utilise our innovative kitchen visualiser.
Where to put lamps
A strategically placed lamp can create a sense of cosiness, providing pools of light in darker corners of a room, adding to the ambience and bringing character to a new home.
Table lamps
Table lamps can provide, accent or task lighting and where they’re positioned will depend on the size of the room. For example, a pair of table lamps on opposite sides of a spacious lounge or either side of your bed adds a sense of symmetry. Table lamps should be positioned so the bottom of the shade is at eye level when you’re seated. Learn about where to put the sofa and more with our love lounging tips.
Floor lamps
Floor lamps are often positioned next to a seating area, such as the lounge. A tall lamp in the corner of the living room will help create a cosy, warm feeling while drawing focus on the furniture in that space. Changing the shade on a much-loved lamp base is simple, cost-effective way of refreshing your interior to create an on trend look.
Home office lamps
Angled lamps mean you can easily adjust the position, height and potentially the brightness, can help reduce shadows and glare. The perfect lamp position is above and behind your screen, pointing down as this will light the whole desk without causing screen glare. Discover more about flexible study space ideas and how to create the ideal dual purpose space for co-working homework and more.
How does smart lighting work?
Smart lighting systems connect to your home via the Wi-Fi network and can be controlled via a smartphone app or voice activated assistant such as Amazon Echo or Google Home. Benefits of smart lighting include:
- Scheduling when the lights are on/off – handy if you’re away as your normal lighting routine can be maintained.
- Bulbs can be controlled individually or as a block.
- Adjusting the colour temperature and intensity of bulbs in different parts of the home.
- Ability to create specific lighting effects, for instance for ‘movie night’, dimming everything except back-lighting around the TV.
Ideas for your outdoor lighting
- Solar powered lights to save on energy, particularly for sunny south facing spots.
- Linear lighting beneath the edges of a path creates a ‘floating’ effect.
- Contemporary fence lights can help illuminate fence panels and will create a feature.
- Spotlights on steps or cosy lamps and lanterns around your outdoor seating areas.
- Lamps or illuminated ornaments to highlight key features like your favourite plants.
- Uplighting on trees or fairy lights wrapped around trees.
- Twinkling festoon lights to draw attention to a garden pergola that's set up for alfresco dining.
How to decorate your house with lights for Diwali
Seasonal celebrations provide the perfect opportunity to bring an array of additional lighting adornments to your home.
- Festoon lights – add additional lighting in the form of garland across windows or fencing both inside and outside
- Lanterns – Diwali lanterns are traditionally crystal shaped, with gold, silver and copper all popular choices
- Traditionally diya oil lamps are lit using mustard seed oil
- Candles – lighting candles at Diwali is said to bring luck, while gifting scented candles is considered a way to share positive energy.
- Tealights in colourful flower-shaped holders tie in with the trend for interiors being inspired by nature and biophilia while also respecting the traditions of Diwali.
- Decorate your home with coloured lights in every room. It’s also the one time of year to leave the lights on in every room all of the time.
Looking for inspiration on how to style your new home? Read our guide to 2025 interior design trends.
