Google is leaning hard into the home decor boom, and the search data backs up why. Searches for “home decor inspo” jumped 300% in the past month alone, while “bathroom inspo” and “living room inspo” both hit breakout status. Teal and magenta are this year’s trending paint colors. The company clearly sees a gap between pinning ideas and actually pulling off a room makeover — so it’s pushing five Search tools to close that distance.
The most ambitious one is AI Mode’s furniture visualization. You upload a photo of your actual room and ask what kind of couch would fit, down to the wall width in inches. The system then generates mockups of specific pieces in your space — an emerald green velvet sofa, for instance — before you spend a dime. It’s a logical extension of Google’s push into multimodal AI, and it targets the exact anxiety anyone who’s ever bought a too-large sectional knows intimately.
Google Lens and Circle to Search are getting positioned as the discovery engines for vintage and niche decor. “Vintage braided rugs” and “vintage wood coffee table” are the top trending home furnishing searches, and Lens lets you photograph something in a store or at a flea market to find similar listings at your price point. Circle to Search, available on the latest Pixel and Galaxy S26 devices, handles the social media scroll problem — you spot fish wallpaper in a video and circle it to shop without leaving the app.
Search Live tackles the unglamorous part of decorating: installation. Floating shelves are a top-trending item, but buying them is the easy half. Google’s live video assistant walks you through DIY steps while you point your camera at the wall, asking questions out loud like you’re talking to a friend. And price tracking rounds out the toolkit — tap any product listing to compare prices across stores, view the item’s price history to see if the current tag is high or low, and set an alert for when it drops. It’s the kind of feature that feels obvious once it exists, which is usually a good sign for adoption.
