Decor Styles

From compact sofas and accent chairs to smart double-duty designs.

Learning your own taste can be a lifelong journey. Wherever you are on your path, take our quiz as a way to clarify your current perfect style profile. Here’s what to do: turn off your brain, scroll through these slides and pick the very first room that catches your eye. Don’t try to figure anything out, just go with your gut and record your answers.

And what to try instead.

Two words: disco fever.

How can you ensure your rugs all work in unison? To help figure it out, I chatted with five designers to get their favorite tips and tricks.

You want your first apartment to feel like you — but that’s quite a daunting task if you’ve never been responsible for decorating a home before!

In the most stylish, comfortable way — and just wait until you see these prints.

Because everyone could use a pop of personality in their space.

Whether you live at home with teenagers, share an apartment with a roommate, are shacking up with your parents again as an adult, or are talking cohabitation with your significant other, combining your decorating taste with someone else's can be complicated.

Your personality might be a good way to find find your decorating style.

How to bring the Dutch spirit into your design routine.

It’s no easy task: narrowing down the must-know interior design terms, styles, designers, and iconic products into a definitive 26-item list, one entry for each letter of the alphabet. It’s impossible actually, but we thought we’d give it a go because, hey, it’s fun. Here’s to hoping you find a few of your design faves on this list—and that you get from a to zed learning at least one new fact to use as a conversation starter.

Is it just us or does minimalism feel so yesterday? Don’t get us wrong: We love a sleek and clean space as much as the next design enthusiast; however, we have to admit that the neutral color palette and lack of funky details feels, well, sterile.

First it was fashion. Now, Rent the Runway is teaming up with West Elm to allow users to rent home goods from their website. That’s right: Your blankets and sheets could now come with a return date. “This is a monumental moment for Rent the Runway and the sharing economy as a whole.

Whether you’re watching the latest television reboot or liking the latest retro #TBT on your timeline, nostalgia for the ’90s is at an all time high. While the pop culture love fest for the decade rages on, let’s take a look back at some of the craziest decorating trends that will give any 90s kid a truly rad blast from the past. Maybe the ’90s should have been known as the see-through decade. Transparency was totally in when it came to home decor.

If large, open, lofted spaces and rugged materials like raw wood and metal catch your eye, your home style may be warm industrial. Here are some inspiring spaces that showcase the classic style and reveal how cozy, modern, and even rustic the look can be. Lofty spaces with lots of windows, like the one above from HK Living, are gorgeous, but also notoriously drafty. Warm up the room with lots of textured textiles, such as throw pillows, blankets, and woven rugs.

Are you the artful bohemian or a new traditionalist? Take this quiz to find out and don’t forget to share your results in the comments! Antsy for your results? Hang tight…they’re coming! Re-edited from a post that originally appeared 09.06.2017.

Any design enthusiast can attest: Pinterest is one of the best tools for finding aspirational images and creating a digital dream world full of (sometimes unattainable) beauty for yourself. But with what feels like gazillions of photos to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down which ones are accurate reflections of your personal style, and which ones are just plain pretty and pleasant to look at.

Do you have trouble pinning down your style profile into “organic modern” or “classic glam”? Maybe you need to re-frame your forays into style introspection and start to think about it the Harry Potter way: What’s your Patronus? Take our quiz to determine which animal you have the most in common with in regards to your taste and habits when you’re decorating. Keep track of your answers and meet us at the bottom of the post to tally it up. A. Pinterest B.

Mark Maček’s Modern, Warm & Woodsy When “modern” or “traditional” doesn’t begin to describe the style going on at your house, feel free to get creative, heck—get poetic— with how you characterize your home’s personality. Take inspiration from these past tour participants who embrace clever and evocative language to really pin down their aesthetic.