Home interiors trends for 2023: Here's what you need to know

Think edgy but comfortable and the return of the all-white kitchen, if you're designing a living space or revamping rooms

A harlequin set of chairs ranging over a century are given new life in a simple Shaker-inclined kitchen. Similar large rug, Morris & Co, Boughs, €923, rugs.ie. Picture: Carpetright

Interiors trending for 2023 delivers some chewy old chestnuts and some pointy new angles. The sages have massaged the same clutch of stylistic ideas into slightly different confections with a new background colour thrown up the walls. 

These include the return of the all-white kitchen (hurrah), what’s termed “New Gothic” (sophisticated steam punk meets rough-luxe), the return of the brown room from the 1970s (please, God — no) and fainting “Scandinavian Pastels” (pretty but nothing new here).