Young Designer Shares Fresh Spring Ideas

Jordyn Kroll has been a designer with Jessica Bradley Interiors for 10 years where she oversees residential projects from concept to completion, including the scope of decorating to new-build homes.

Here, she breathes fresh life into spring home design ideas. Spring, which officially begins March 19, is also magnified in the Feb. 27, 2025, Good Housekeeping Magazine’s “Best Spring Décor Ideas” (Alyssa Gautieri). Then, Pantone 2025 selected mocha mousse as the color of the year.

Kroll agrees, “I am loving everything chocolate right now! Other color notions — definitely bold! Spring 2025 will bring bold colors in high quantities called ‘color drenching.’ This is taking rooms and ‘drenching’ them in one color to create a single shade explosion.”

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Kroll grew up in Atlanta and went to the University of Georgia graduating with a degree in furnishings and interiors where she served as president of the design class of 2015. She started at Jessica Bradley Interiors a week after graduation.

Jordyn suggests getting away from sterile kitchens.

She lists these trends for 2025:
1. More closed off space plans with defined walls and separations between different areas.
2. Collected decorating: homes that look collected over decades instead of mapped out meticulously. Things should feel organic, layered, and even mismatched.
3. Undone maximalism: the idea of having to have balanced and symmetrical spaces is long gone. We are looking for beautiful and authentic imperfections in spaces. As designers, we create these spaces by pairing the old with the new and staying playful in our design.
4. Wallpaper will continue to be a sought-after trend and will gain popularity on ceiling applications
5. Pattern play: no more tame patterns in a space but instead let them play off each other.

She elaborated on painted wood floors in more playful areas like mudrooms, kitchens, and pantries as an affordable way to add a personal element. She feels that statement lighting, that used to be more functional, is an opportunity to add a design element. Breaking up large rooms with multiple small seating areas instead of one large seating area might lead to one large sofa, two wingback chairs by the window, a separate game table, and an odd chair to allow for multiple conversations to take place at one time and encourage relaxation.

Kroll suggests painted floors as a way to get more a more playful scene.

She added, “Smaller more intimate rooms are definitely on the rise. We are gearing towards this lifestyle where rooms are dedicated to one activity. After you eat dinner in the dining room, you can escape to the game room.”

In terms of color, Kroll leans towards “cocooning” colors, which are bold shades that will be implemented on more than just walls, also drenching the ceilings and trim to give the cocoon effect.

Storage and organization are becoming something to showcase. For kitchens, Kroll suggests showing off pantry organization with beautiful canisters or even color-coding books to bring attention to them. Warmer tones and stained cabinets should gain popularity in an effort to move away from sterile kitchens. The open concept kitchen has shifted in order to bring back coziness. People will be adding walls instead of removing them in 2025.  She mused, “After all, who wants to stare at their dirty dishes while watching TV?”

She thinks outdoor spaces will start to resemble indoor spaces and related, “Outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and built-in heaters will continue to gain popularity and turn the outdoors into livable areas. Screened in porches will become a thing of the past. In Georgia, these spaces are only usable for two weeks in the year. Instead, we will add to our exterior spaces to make them livable longer.”

This room setting shows modern seating configurations.

The Good Housekeeping article extols fresh greenery, pastels and natural textures. Specifics are colorful glassware, wallpaper behind bookshelves, leaf wall art, lighter bedding, lemons (Martha Stewart has been doing that for years) or year-round citrus wreaths, floral shower curtains, colorful Roman shades, trendy lighting, and bringing the outdoors in.

For readers looking for unique pieces, Kroll said, “I go to Scott’s Antique Market every month when I have the full day or Westside Market on Ellsworth Industrial to shop and get inspired.”