Top Office Decor Trends – July 2025 Edition

July’s feeds are less about wattage and firmware, more about surfaces, textures and quiet colour. The six office decor trends below keep the technology in place but let the look do most of the talking—exactly what readers ask for when they want a desk that photographs as well as it functions.

1. Clay-Toned Minimalism

Greige finally yielded to genuine colour and clay is the current trend; terracotta, adobe, red-oxide, but always with a pinch of grey so it plays nicely with white melamine and matte-black steel. The tone hides fingerprints better than stark white and feels warmer against monitor light.

2. ‘Floating’ Pegboard Backsplash

Pegboards have moved under the sight-line. Makers now cut two tiers from a single board, then mount it eight centimetres below desk height so the first tier carries stationery hooks while the second tucks in chargers and cable bundles. Because the board floats away from the wall on low-profile standoffs, a thin LED strip can back-light it, throwing a gentle halo that frames the entire desk.

3. Bias-Lighting Wall Wash

The monitor-light-bar trend matured; décor-minded owners are shifting to wall washes—a 30 cm RGB strip tucked behind the desk, six centimetres off the surface so the glow climbs up the wall instead of down onto the screen. Light spills wide, leaving a vignette behind plants, picture ledges and the new clay-toned gallery frames.

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4. Catch-alls

Wood trays feel cosy; smoked-acrylic trays feel weightless. Designers are laser-cutting 3 mm acrylic into stepped valleys so pens, SD cards and USB-C dongles sit on display instead of hiding in drawers. The translucent material picks up whatever lighting you use clay backlights read warm, RGB reads cyber and visually reduces clutter because the desk surface shows through.

Here’s our favourite faux leather catchall that we think will work in any setup:

5. Modular Desk Planters

Tiny succulents were 2023; 2025 swaps them for modular trough planters that snap to a steel riser or clamp to the rear edge of a desk. The low trough keeps soil away from keyboard vents while adding a horizontal green line that breaks up monitors. Banana-leaf Pothos and String-of-Turtles are the plants of choice: tolerant of LED-only light and happy in narrow soil beds.

6. Felt-Wool Desk Runners

Instead of micro-spring pads, décor locals are flocking back to dense merino felt cut wider than the desk and stitched with muted thread that matches the clay palette. The runner quiets keystrokes, lets optical mice glide, and photographs like a fabric backdrop for every flat-lay.

Why are these trending?

Colour (clay), texture (felt), translucence (acrylic) and vegetative lines (trough planters) give the eye gentle landmarks so the room doesn’t look like a monitor farm. Hidden pegboard tiers and bias wall washes keep cables and light sources invisible, proving you can integrate tech without displaying every pixel of it.