Americans have been spending more time at home than ever over the past few years, so it’s no surprise that 2023 home design trends are emphasizing comfort and multi-functionality. Whether you’re thinking about building a custom home, renovating your home, or simply redecorating some rooms, keep these modern home interior and exterior design trends in mind!
- Interior Design Trends for 2023
- Exterior Design Trends for 2023
Interior Design Trends for 2023
Home design trends have been shaped by the events of the past few years—and in 2023, Americans will continue to focus on creating functional and comfortable living spaces, especially since work-from-home and hybrid work options have become commonplace. Many of this year’s interior design tips also focus on improving overall wellness. Upgrade your living space with these top interior design trends for 2023!
Embrace the Curve
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The curved furniture design trend of the Mid-Century Modern era has made a comeback in recent years—which comes as no surprise to anyone who’s noticed an uptick in ‘60s and ‘70s influences in everything from brand logos to fashion. A continued emphasis on comfort and a rejection of stark spaces with hard lines means we’ll be seeing more curved designs in custom floor plans in 2023, and with furniture shapes like couches and tables.
Incorporate Feng Shui
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Feng shui focuses on bringing balance and harmony into a home in order to invite good energy—a trend that will likely continue to be a popular home design in 2023. For those feeling “closed in,” incorporating feng shui into your home design could make a huge difference. Use the Bagua energy map to maximize the energy of the five elements in your home.
Try Japandi Style
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While minimalism has started to die down in interior decorating trends, minimalist interior design isn’t going away any time soon. If you desire a clean, minimalist look in your home but don’t want the full starkness of total minimalism, a Japandi home style might be the right option for you. This mix of Scandinavian design and Japanese design creates an appealing blend of both form and function. Japandi decor features practical furniture with clean lines, natural materials, soft textures, and light, muted colors.
Experiment with Neutrals & Earth Tones…
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Looking to create a calm atmosphere? Consider using mood-boosting paint colors in your home! Incorporating neutral colors like white, beige, and light brown is a great way to create a more calming mood in your living space. Similarly, earth tone color palettes, like greens and browns, can be calming, warm, and welcoming. If you’re wanting to experiment a bit, try out colors like pale pink or sage green as alternative neutral paint colors!
…Or Try Bold Colors & Patterns
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Though minimalist colors are still in style, more and more people are finding ways to incorporate bold paint colors at home to spice up their living space. While high-contrast color palettes like yellows and reds help bring more energy into the room, low-contrast color palettes including teals and greens can set a calmer tone. Picking out accent pieces with bright colors or vibrant patterns—like checkered designs—is another way to bring on the bold. Or, you can be one of the first to hop on a new trend by trying out the striking 2023 Pantone Color of the Year, Viva Magenta!
Get Down with Maximalism
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Less isn’t necessarily more. While minimalist design is still appealing to some, the increased amount of time and number of activities that now take place in the home makes it more difficult to stick to a modest or sparsely filled home. Modern interior design often features more seating options, storage spaces, vibrant artwork, and bolder colors as maximalism continues to rise.
Create Multi-Functional Spaces
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A lingering design trend from the past few years, multifunctional spaces at home are especially useful for people with small living spaces who need designated areas for work, leisure, and family time. Multi-functional interior design allows you to make the most of your space and prioritize the things that are important for your lifestyle. Whether it’s utilizing a flex room, space-saving furniture, or combining a guest room and home office setup, finding ways to design and use rooms for multiple purposes will continue to be an interior design trend into 2023.
Designate a Home Office Setup
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With remote and hybrid work continuing to be an option for many workers, home offices play a key role in home interior design and layout. For digital nomads especially, it’s important to create a comfortable and productive office environment. If you’re working from home and want to improve its design for wellness, you’ll want to have a space allocated specifically for your job so you can have a healthy mental separation between your work and life at home.
Make the Kitchen a Focal Point
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Your kitchen’s interior design is an important aspect to think about if you’re designing your home for function. The kitchen became both a communal gathering space for households and a workspace for remote workers and students over the last few years. In 2023, you’ll want to make sure your kitchen can accommodate everything from entertaining and working to cooking and baking. Incorporate more comfortable kitchen seating options with breakfast nooks or large islands with stools. Also, find ways to add more counter space (or declutter existing counter space) so that meal preparation is easier.
Use Durable Materials
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One of the most practical home design trends of 2023 is using long-lasting, sustainable interior design materials that are easy to clean and can better withstand the wear and tear of daily life. Natural materials like glass, metal, ceramic, or stone are great solutions for durable and sustainable surfaces around the home. In fact, one of the best materials to incorporate in the home is copper because it’s antiviral, antibacterial, and actively kills germs. If you do a lot of baking and cooking, consider installing a marble kitchen countertop—in addition to its durability, marble is the ideal surface for rolling dough, pastries, and more, since it naturally stays cool.
Bring The Outdoors In
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Biophilic design continues to be a top home interior trend going into 2023. This home design incorporates the natural world through the use of earthy colors, natural materials, good ventilation, and—most importantly—houseplants. Bringing nature into interior design helps promote health and well-being, and it can even help purify the air in your home. One of the best ways to implement a biophilic design is by decorating your home in the urban jungle home style.
Try Out the Cottagecore Look
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Inspired by idealized rural living, cottagecore embraces a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle. This antique and vintage design style features neutral and warm color palettes, natural elements like houseplants and dried flowers, and lots of patterned materials. Other popular cottagecore elements include open fireplaces, vintage and reclaimed furniture, and lace tablecloths. With thrifted furniture, you’ll not only get high-quality goods at low prices, but you can also help reduce waste!
Exterior Design Trends for 2023
Home improvement projects like building decks and painting front doors have been popular in recent years—as have DIY landscaping projects like creating backyard privacy and adding water features. If you’re refreshing your home’s outside or even building a new home, check out these trending 2023 home exterior design ideas!
Stand Out with Dark Colors
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Want to make a bold statement and be unique from the rest of your block? Join the growing trend of painting your house a dark color. Dark hues like black and navy blue are dramatic and eye-catching, which can help improve your curb appeal. Of course, you don’t have to make everything dark—painting your front door, trim, or garage door gray or black can create the same stunning contrast without being as bold. Just be sure to consult your HOA’s rules before you start painting to see if these colors are acceptable in your area.
Or Try Out Welcoming Earthy Tones
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Nature-inspired colors for home exteriors—like brown, beige, white, green, and light gray—can make a home feel warm and homey, yet elegant. Plus, there are plenty of great on-trend earth tone color palettes to choose from. Looking for contrast with versatility? Try out neutral gray with a slight blue undertone! Love moody, dark colors? Opt for saturated gray with a light undertone of green.
Go With the Modern Farmhouse Look
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Modern farmhouses meld sleek Contemporary design elements with vintage and rustic aesthetics to create a marriage of traditional and modern. Features of farmhouse style commonly include a white exterior accented by a dark roof and trim, with natural textures and materials like wood or galvanized steel. The modern farmhouse exterior design trend has even led to some people renovating or building barndominiums as residences.
Create Your Outdoor Oasis
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Outdoor living rooms continue to be a popular home design trend for social gathering spaces. Outdoor living spaces give homeowners the ability to entertain family, friends, and neighbors, all while being in the presence of nature. Spending time outdoors is an easy way to improve well-being—it helps reduce stress, promotes better sleep, and can even boost your immune system! Whether you build a gazebo, spruce up a deck or patio, or transform your porch, you can design an attractive and cozy gathering space.
Craft Experience-Based Spaces
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With access to venues like gyms, restaurants, theaters, and more restricted during the pandemic, many people chose to make their own at home—a home exterior design idea we will continue to see in 2023. Homeowners turned their backyards into entertainment centers by constructing fire pits, installing outdoor kitchens, putting up large screens or TVs, laying down concrete basketball courts, building outdoor bars, or making their own putting greens.
Bridge the Indoors & Outdoors
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You can give your home exterior a harmonious feel by creating a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor spaces. Make an indoor-outdoor space by using large glass doors and plenty of windows, or even by installing retractable walls—a popular feature in modern home design. You might also consider extending your ceiling to create a covered patio or pergola, or use string lights or pendant lights to create the feel of a ceiling.
Emphasize Landscape Lighting
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Upgrading your landscape lighting design is especially important if you have plans to sell your home in 2023, as exterior lighting is one of the features homebuyers look for the most. You can use colored lights and linear lights to brighten stairways and paths for better curb appeal, or use solar-powered LED bulbs for a more eco-friendly backyard.
Vamp Up Your Front Entry
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You can make your guests or family members feel at home before even stepping into your home just by having a decorated front porch. Creating a cozy, welcoming front porch by adding throw pillows on chairs or an outdoor rug gives you more outdoor living space and can help set your guests’ expectations for what’s to come inside. Don’t have space for a front porch? Consider an overhang shade and a bold color for your front door! This not only draws attention to the entrance of your home, but also offers a shelter for outdoor enjoyment.
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