Top Interior Design Trends We Don't Need This 2023

Every year, interior design trends prompt homeowners to change the way their interiors look based on these trendy interior design styles. Some home decor trends survive and remain popular, while others have only proved to be stylish in the design world only for a certain period of time.

This 2023, let's take a good look at what home decor trends that we actually don't need anymore for our humble homes.

Out of Style: 11 Interior Designs We Dont Need This 2023

There are interior design trends that will stay, such as a modern farmhouse aesthetic that incorporates contemporary architectural details with natural elements. Conversely, trends come and go as newer styles are introduced that will render past interior trends dated. With that being said, below are just some trending interior designs in the past years that are out of style in 2023.

1. Open-Concept Floor Plans

An open floor plan comprises one large space with more than one single use for a room. The best example would be the combination of a dining room and a kitchen. While this is convenient, and this "trend" is less likely to underwhelm homeowners who prefer its practicality, an open floor plan undermines the purpose of a home — a place of rest and privacy. Multiple functionalities for one large room are not ideal if quietude and privacy are major concerns.

2. Minimalist, All-White Interiors

A minimalistic approach to interior design is all the rage these days. But let's admit: on one hand they seem deceptively simple, but on the other, they simply look tedious, uninteresting, and make your interiors look plain and funless. With that said, it is safe to quiet-quit this minimalist approach and try maximizing interior designs without making a mess out of our personalized style choices.

3. No To Maximalism, Either

Bidding goodbye to minimalism is not a hello to a maximalist style. They are harder to maintain, make your house look messy and cluttered, and are visually overwhelming. A home should be a place of rest and comfort where you won't have to remove tons of pillows or stuffed toys before you can comfortably lie down and get a good night's sleep.

4. Obsessive, Color-Coordinated Decorations

If you're a bookworm and own hundreds of books with different sizes and colors, you probably have thought about arranging your precious paperback babies based on their colors. Red covers here first, followed by browns, yellows, blues — et cetera. This obsession with color coordination is no longer in this 2023 (or we'd like to think so). Your home interiors don't have to mimic an Instagram profile and stick to a color palette for all eternity. A home is a home where you should feel relaxed and not some place of aesthetics you design to please others.

5. Home Decor Devoid of Use

Instead of decorating the dinner table with a clear-glass basket holding a mishmash of fake fruits, why not fill it with real fruits that you can actually eat? It does not have to be a new year every day for you to buy round fruits as lucky charms. On this note, home decorations that don't serve that much purpose except taking up space must be minimized, if cannot be completely quitted.

6. Colored Appliances

Appliances should ideally be neutral in color. Whether it's for your refrigerator, kitchen stove, washing machine, or microwave oven, picking a bright color for their exteriors is an interior design trend we should ditch this year. They look inappropriate and distracting and ruin your interior's appearance.

7. Television in the Living Room

No, it's not that you should ditch your television altogether, or place it in your bedroom where you can Netflix and chill in your little private space. But rather, your living room must be a place where family conversations happen without the television as the focal point of the intimate area. For example, you can consider placing two sofas facing each other, blocking the television set in the front. There, you can bond with your family and friends without resorting to electronic gadgets to entertain each other.

8. Fast Furniture will Slow Down in Sales

Fast furniture is anything inexpensive but of substandard quality. This is a trend that homeowners must not even consider this 2023. Its greatest disadvantage is its adverse impact on the environment. In the United States, furniture is the second biggest source of urban waste, and it's not unlikely that fast furniture purchases are key culprits. Environmental preservation is a global pursuit, and shying away from fast furniture buys is the right thing to do. Instead of these cheap, substandard pieces of furniture, invest in timeless and durable objects to put into your house and give you comfort.

9. Less Rattan Use in 2023

Rattan for furniture design and use is very popular in the Philippines. As it turns out, the country is also one of the largest sources of this timeless wickerwork furniture with natural materials. Still, its popularity will likely dwindle in 2023. While it's considered durable enough to survive outdoor exposure, it can still break over time with generous use. What is more, if comfort is a major consideration in buying furniture for you, rattan isn't exactly ideal.

10. Curved Furniture Items

The curved sofa is especially trendy for the past few years, but 2023 will likely put an end to its rather brief popularity. Interior designers say it has an impractical look, and we couldn't agree more. Curvy shapes for a sofa may still stay in commercial spaces where it's most needed and useful, but not in traditional homes and personal spaces.

11. Chesterfield Style Sofa

With its distinctive and elegant look, there's no questioning why Chesterfield sofas became popular in its time. It is also an excellent choice for the modern farmhouse aesthetic that remains well-liked to this day. But 2023 may be the year to give other sofa styles that can better achieve the elegantly rustic appearance that a Chesterfield sofa can pull off inside a modern farmhouse.

Trends come and go. In fact, they even resurrect after decades of being out of style and become even more fashionable with a modern interpretation. Hence, if any of these interior design trends are currently incorporated in your home, you have the liberty to keep them as is and wait for their resurrection or invest time and money in redecorating your home interiors based on your personal style mixed with the professional advice of an interior designer (no need to hire one. There's plenty of interior design ideas you can look up from interior design influencers online!). Either way, do what will make you happy in a house that can make you feel like home.

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