Google Reveals The Home & Décor Questions People Couldn’t Stop Asking In 2025
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Americans turned to Google for plenty this year, including to get their questions answered about homes. With its home and décor trends list, the search giant has witnessed the surges in architectural styles as well as everyday styling dilemmas.
During its discovery process for its annual Year in Search rankings, Google picked up the design questions that dominated US households in 2025. From Googie roofs to glass-door china cabinets, the queries—shared with DesignTAXI—that prevailed this year reveal a public eager to revisit old styles, reorganize familiar spaces, and figure out what, exactly, to do with oversized cutting boards.
The report highlights home and décor queries in the United States based on search spikes sustained throughout 2025 compared with 2024. Rather than identifying the “most searched” terms, the dataset captures what rose sharply in collective curiosity. Take a peek at them below.
Architectural Styles
1. Googie
2. Ranch
3. Brutalist
4. Federal
5. Byzantine
6. Postmodern
7. Art Deco
8. Tudor
9. Craftsman
10. Art Nouveau
On the architectural side, curiosity leaned heavily toward distinct eras and bold silhouettes. Googie, the space-age, neon-sign, boomerang-shaped style of 1950s commercial architecture, claims the top slot, likely boosted by a resurgence of midcentury Americana across media and retail.
Tesla Diner, featuring a Googie architectural style. Image: Walter Cicchetti | Dreamstime.com
Ranch homes, Brutalist structures and Federal-style design follow closely, while Byzantine and Postmodern forms round out the list. Searches for Art Deco, Tudor, Craftsman and Art Nouveau also show renewed interest in historical motifs and ornamentation. These themes suggest a public looking backward for inspiration, sampling from periods defined by expressive geometry, ornament and cultural optimism.
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1. Cutting boards in kitchen
2. A platform bed without headboard
3. A California king bed
4. A hall table
5. An oval coffee table
6. A console table behind a couch
7. A China cabinet with glass doors
8. A large, square coffee table
9. A dining table when not in use
10. Built-in shelves around fireplace
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More inward-looking searches focused on something far more immediate: how to arrange and style everyday household items. Americans wanted clarity on everything from where to store bulky cutting boards to how to stage a hall table or console behind a couch.
Questions about fitting California king beds, placing oval or square coffee tables, styling built-ins around a fireplace and making unused dining tables feel intentional reflected both the constraints of smaller spaces and a broader appetite for functional beauty. These map out how people wrestled with practical problems like awkward corners, oversized furniture, new storage habits, while trying to create a cohesive aesthetic.
[via Google, images via Dreamstime]
