40 interior design styles
Each with its palette, the materials it depends on, how it treats light, and the things that break it.
ModernFlat fronts, long lines, and nothing applied that does not do a job.
ScandinavianPale timber, white walls, and daylight treated as the main material.
JapandiJapanese restraint with Nordic warmth, each keeping the other honest.
IndustrialStructure left visible, because it was worth looking at.
Mid-Century ModernTapered legs, warm walnut, and furniture that sits low and light.
BohemianLayered textiles, plants everywhere, and no matching set anywhere.
CoastalLight woods, white walls and blue used sparingly enough to mean something.
Art DecoGeometry, symmetry and materials chosen to catch light.
FarmhousePractical, worn, and built to be cleaned rather than admired.
MinimalistFewer elements, better made, with nothing left over.
TraditionalSymmetry, mouldings and furniture that matches on purpose.
Dark AcademiaDeep colour, books, and light that arrives from the side.
ContemporaryWhatever is current, held together by restraint.
Industrial LoftWarehouse volume kept, with somewhere soft to sit in it.
Modern FarmhouseFarmhouse warmth with the clutter engineered out.
RusticHeavy timber, rough stone, and marks left where they fell.
MediterraneanPlaster walls, terracotta, arches and light bounced off both.
MaximalistMore of everything, arranged so it holds together.
BiophilicPlanting treated as structure rather than decoration.
Wabi-SabiImperfect surfaces, left as they are.
French CountryRural France softened by age — stone, linen and pale painted timber.
Organic ModernModern discipline with every hard edge softened.
CottagecoreSmall rooms, small prints, and nothing that looks specified.
Hollywood GlamReflective everything, arranged symmetrically.
MoroccanTile, arch and lantern, layered until the room is enclosed.
TransitionalTraditional bones, contemporary surfaces, neither winning.
English CountryLayers accumulated over decades, none of them recent.
TuscanOchre, stone and timber weathered by sun.
SouthwesternAdobe warmth, woven texture and a desert palette.
Desert ModernModern lines in a landscape palette, built for glare.
Mountain ModernCabin materials, contemporary volumes.
GrandmillennialThe furnishings a grandmother would recognise, arranged with irony and skill.
VictorianHigh ceilings, deep colour and ornament at every junction.
ShakerEverything necessary, nothing more, made properly.
Retro 70sWarm browns, curves and pattern that does not apologise.
TropicalRattan, palm and ceiling fans, kept light rather than themed.
ZenNothing on the surfaces, nothing raised in the room.
EclecticDeliberate mixing, held together by one repeated thread.
NauticalBoat detailing at domestic scale, without the anchors.
FuturisticSeamless surfaces, hidden everything, light as the material.