The Japandi Living Room, Reconsidered for 2025
Why the trend has finally shaken off its all-oak-everything phase — and what designers are doing instead, from limewashed plaster to a single confident black accent.
4,200+ curated room photographs, filtered across 27 design styles — the visual archive our editors have been quietly building since 2019. Browse by mood, room, or palette. Save what moves you.
From Japandi kitchens to Maximalist Boho reading nooks, the archive is organized around the aesthetics our readers actually live with — not the ones Pinterest pushes hardest. Tap any facet to open that category hub.
Every photograph is selected by our editorial team and graded to feel like it belongs on the same magazine spread. Browse the cross-section below, or open the full library to filter by room, palette, and light.
Every photograph in the Style Library is selected by our editorial team of nine full-time writers and stylists, working alongside a network of 31 contributing designers — including two AD100 names and a former senior editor at Better Homes & Gardens. We reject around nine out of every ten rooms we review.
What survives the cut tends to share a few quiet qualities: warm-desaturated light rather than a flash-lit catalogue look, a single confident material moment per room, evidence that someone actually lives there, and a palette that holds together across an entire spread. The archive is graded so that a Japandi bedroom and a Maximalist Boho sitting room can sit six tiles apart on the same page without breaking the mood.
Because the library is built for inspiration rather than shopping, we strip out stock-photo tropes, render-farmed kitchens, and Pinterest-cliché farmhouse pegboards. What remains is design intelligence you can actually use: how a designer handled a north-facing window, where they broke their own rule, what they kept from the previous owner.
— Mara Whitfield, Co-founder & Editorial Director
Three new long-form guides and room features landed this week. Each one opens a category hub — so you can keep falling down the rabbit hole without ever hitting a dead end.
Why the trend has finally shaken off its all-oak-everything phase — and what designers are doing instead, from limewashed plaster to a single confident black accent.
A 1,400-square-foot floor-through, stripped back to plaster and brick, then dressed in boucle, travertine, and exactly one piece of furniture you'll actually remember.
Our Style Quiz has produced 38,000+ personalized profiles since 2022. Answer 24 quick questions and we'll send you a 12-page PDF built around the rooms you've already been saving.