21 Jewels in This Year’s Most Desirable Color—Brown!

By Brittany Siminitz | January 15, 2025

Does anyone else make big home decor plans at the start of the year? Those resolutions to exercise more and eat better (new year, new me) aren’t enough—I have to change my surroundings, too.

Blame it on cabin fever—I don’t want anything to do with weather below 40 degrees—or the endless retail blasts touting new home design for 2025. Or perhaps it’s simply that trying to embrace change is a comforting way to approach a new year, one filled with both unknowns and things to look forward to.

Regardless, for the past week I’ve been staring in disgust at the walls of my living room—ugh, these boring walls!—and making plans to repaint them in a color that, thanks to recent interest, feels fresh and cool: brown.

What’s old is certainly new again, as a color that not long ago might have seemed dated (remember the brown wood paneling of the ’60s and ’70s?) all of a sudden feels like a revelation. How chic and cozy and completely different from the last decade—our entire home was painted gray when we moved in. Glum!

If you’re thinking, “This is an awful lot of interior design talk for a jewelry blog, Britt,” bear with me, I have a point. It’s brown! I have such a renewed interest in brown that I want all the good stuff in chocolate, bronze, chestnut, and and taupe (ironically, I’m not all that warmed by Pantone’s Mocha Mousse). In jewelry terms, please bring on all the smoky quartz, tiger’s eye, and brown diamonds, zircons, and other gems out there (jewels could also get their brown color from material like wood, leather, ceramic, or enamel).

For those, like me, who find themselves reinvigorated with visions of such earthy hues, here are some of the latest brown jewels to the market.