Color & Design Future Trends: Welcome Home
In a keynote at The Inspired Home Show 2025, Lee Eiseman, color specialist and executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, unveiled seven color palettes and explained why “Welcome Home” was selected as the theme of the Pantone View Home + Interiors 2026 Forecast.
To explain the “Welcome Home” theme, Eiseman said, “These are two words when used together, that express the most deep-seated and intrinsic human needs. It’s a theme that’s highly relatable and well understood, as a welcoming home provides the roof over our heads, whether it be a condo in the city, an expansive loft that has reminders of its industrial origins, or the relaxed elegance of a country cottage with a revisit to not so shabby chic.”
Eiseman then explained each of the seven palettes in the Pantone View Home + Interiors 2026 forecast, sharing how they take elements from the past to make the palette fresh and modern. “The home needs to provide a functional and organized workspace – for us to live within, but also for us to make a living in,” she said, offering various palette options for different lifestyles and play styles.
Listen to the full audio of the presentation.
