Persevering with our 2023 assessment, we revisit the most well-liked lookbooks of the 12 months – from minimalist bedrooms and biophilic properties to marble-lined bogs and kitchens with tiled worktops.
This 12 months, the most-read lookbooks included wood-panelled eating rooms, properties with space-saving pocket doorways and rooms with lovely and sensible bookshelves.
Learn on to find 10 of our hottest lookbooks of 2023:
Eight properties with lovely and sensible bookshelves
This lookbook for booklovers was our most-read lookbook this 12 months. It showcased properties the place designers have created fashionable bookshelves – each wall-mounted and built-in.
Among the many initiatives on present is an residence in Madrid, Spain, which was designed by Spanish studio Zooco Estudio and options white shelving items that span two flooring and supply loads of house to retailer studying supplies.
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Eight kitchens with tiled worktops which are fairly however sensible
There’s loads of kitchen inspiration to be discovered on this lookbook, which explored kitchens with tiled worktops.
Among the many examples is a New York residence that contains a kitchen island coated in oxblood-coloured tiles (above), in addition to a pastel-hued Belgian kitchen and a vibrant Spanish kitchen in a former bike workshop.
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Eight calming bedrooms with minimalist interiors
The bedrooms on this lookbook vary from a Mexican bed room with a concrete mattress to a comfy house in a former women’ college in Puglia, all in a color palette that primarily options beige, grey, and heat brown hues.
To create soothing, calming bed room areas, partitions have been left naked and the quantity of artworks and private gadgets have been stored to a minimal in these initiatives.
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Ten fashionable properties with interiors knowledgeable by biophilic design
Biophilic design, which goals to create areas by which people are extra linked to nature, has been a development this 12 months and appears set to proceed its ascent in 2024.
Houses with indoor bushes, aquaponic techniques with reside fish, inexperienced roofs and verdant courtyards full of crops are among the many biophilic inside design examples on this lookbook.
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Ten residential interiors that benefit from slender areas
Slender inside layouts will be laborious to embellish, however this roundup gave loads of examples of work with tight residing areas, kitchens wedged into corridors and interiors in skinny Japanese homes.
Suggestions embrace including split-level flooring, utilizing built-in furnishings so as to add visible depth and utilizing glass doorways to permit extra mild to penetrate the home.
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Eight tidy kitchens with slick storage options
This lookbook offered eight well-organised kitchens, the place sensible storage options assist to cover muddle and create a extra nice cooking expertise. The initiatives, which vary from compact flats to dwelling extensions, use hooks, nooks, racks, cabinets, cubby holes and show items to make one of the best use of house.
Featured kitchens embrace the above instance from London, which makes use of multifunctional plywood partitions with arched openings and alcoves for storing belongings.
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Ten earthy bedrooms that use pure color to create a restful atmosphere
Dreamy bedrooms from Mexico to Thailand have been showcased on this lookbook, which gathers interiors that use earthy color palettes and pure supplies to evoke a way of calm and tranquility.
Earthy browns, impartial beige and tan colors are complemented by terracotta and inexperienced hues to create bedrooms with a peaceable ambiance, whereas supplies embrace stone, timber, linen, clay accents and limewash finishes.
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Ten bogs the place marble traces the partitions
Carrera and Verde Aver marble, in addition to related pure stones reminiscent of travertine and quartzite, beautify these 10 bogs.
Whether or not it is a renovated Twenties Stockholm residence clad in Swedish Ekeberg marble, or a toilet in an art-deco constructing coated in inexperienced Verde Aver marble (above), this lookbook showcases how the sturdy materials can be utilized to create elegant interiors.
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Ten properties with space-saving pocket doorways that disappear into the partitions
Pocket doorways – sliding doorways which are designed to fit right into a wall cavity to allow them to keep hidden from view – have been the topic of this lookbook, which was probably the most fashionable of final 12 months.
The answer is very helpful for rooms the place there is not sufficient house for a door to open outwards and for areas the place it is sensible for the door to combine into surrounding joinery.
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Eight welcoming wood-panelled eating rooms
The cosiness of a wood-panelled eating room was the main target of this lookbook, which collected eight examples of properties the place wooden took centre stage.
Among the many examples is that this home in Chile, above, which options an open-plan kitchen and eating room with a vaulted ceiling that’s clad in laminated pine.
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2023 assessment
This text is a part of Dezeen’s roundup of the most important and greatest information and initiatives in structure, design, inside design and expertise from 2023.
