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A well-designed room starts with a solid foundation—and we’re not just talking about the literal bones of your home. How you dress up your major surfaces—the walls, floors, ceilings, and windows—sets the tone for the rest of your furnishings. Luckily, the 2025 Good Design Award winners in the Walls, Floors, and Windows category won’t leave you hanging with a blah backdrop.
Best Paint: Dependables Paint Collection by Mylands x Beata Heuman
Paint decision fatigue is officially a thing of the past. “You just need one good, reliable, white. And you can move on with your life,” says Swedish-born designer Beata Heuman, who spent years testing and perfecting this collection of 24 trusted hues with London-based brand Mylands.
Best Tile: Echo Tile by Annie Downing Interiors
There are endless places (indoor or out) and ways (color-coordinating corners or beautiful chaos) to configure Austin-based designer Annie Downing’s graphic concrete tiles.
Best Rugs: Havens Collection by Pelican House x Lucy Williams Home
London it girl Lucy Williams managed to blend three disparate influences—the neoclassical patterns of Greece, plus the flora and fauna of the Welsh coastline and the English countryside—into a line of hand-tufted wool rugs that took Instagram by storm.
Best Wallpaper: The Nostalgia Collection by Tempaper & Co. x Jeremiah Brent
Designer and Queer Eye star Jeremiah Brent sure fooled us with these peel-and-stick wallpapers that only look like delicate parchment paper, woven sisal, and vintage tile.
Best Fabric: Chromia by Josh Greene Design for KUFRI
First came checkerboard, then came designer Josh Greene’s debut fabric collection with textile brand KUFRI, a zany celebration of the many ways you can interpret the geometric pattern. We sense a custom curtain project in your future.