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Issue No. 187 · Est. 2019
Your Home Styles Your Home Styles Room · Style · Living
A warm, neutral living room at golden hour with a boucle sofa and olive tree
New this week · Quiz refresh Issue No. 187

Find the home style
you already love.

A 4-minute quiz that names your design sensibility in 27 vocabularies — from Japandi to Quiet Luxury — and mails you a 12-page personal style profile you can hand to a contractor or keep forever.

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About the quiz

Four minutes. Twelve pages. The style brief you didn't know you needed.

The Style Quiz is the most-loved thing we publish. In roughly four minutes — 18 questions, no psychology, no Pinterest grid to scroll — it reads the rooms you keep saving, the colors you keep returning to, and the textures you actually live with, and names your sensibility in language a designer would use.

At the end you'll receive a 12-page PDF: your primary style, two close cousins, a palette with hex codes, the materials and silhouettes to lean into, the ones to avoid, and a 6-room mood-board you can screenshot, save, or hand to a contractor. It is not a personality test. It is a working brief, written by our editorial team and updated every season.

The quiz is free, the PDF is free, and we'll keep sending you The Weekly Style Drop — a Sunday email of room features, palette studies, and trend forecasts from our editors — unless you say otherwise.

One of these is yours

A glimpse at the style profiles our readers have received.

From quiet, bookish wabi-sabi apartments to layered maximalist boho living rooms, the quiz doesn't pick a winner — it names the vocabulary you already speak. Here are four of the 27 styles it can assign.

A serene Japandi living room with pale oak and charcoal linen
01

Japandi

Quiet, tactile, restrained. Pale oak, paper lanterns, one perfect branch.

A modern farmhouse dining room with reclaimed wood and brass pendants
02

Modern Farmhouse

Honest materials, soft whites, the romance of a country kitchen — without the kitsch.

A maximalist boho living room layered with Persian rugs and emerald velvet
03

Maximalist Boho

More is more — but layered, not loud. Color, pattern, and a thousand good stories.

A quiet luxury bedroom in cashmere cream and travertine
04

Quiet Luxury

Expensive in feel, not in logo. Cashmere, plaster, the soft hush of a hotel suite.

By the numbers

38,000 readers have already taken it.

38,000+ quiz completions since 2022
4min average time to finish
12pages in your personalized PDF profile
2024 Better Homes Style Media Award · Best Use of Visual Storytelling

The quiz handed me Quiet Luxury as my primary and Warm Minimalism as a close cousin. I'd been staring at a half-painted bedroom for six months. That PDF — specifically the palette page with the hex codes — got me to the paint store that weekend. My bedroom is finally a room I want to be in.

Priya R. Reader · Brooklyn, NY

What arrives in your inbox

Six sections, twelve pages, one PDF you'll actually keep open.

A quick tour of the document the quiz produces — written by our editorial team and printed in your name.

  1. 01

    Your primary style, named

    A one-paragraph editorial write-up of the style the quiz assigned you — its history, its mood, the rooms it was made for. Think of it as the brief a designer would open a project with.

  2. 02

    Two close cousins

    Because nobody is one thing. You'll also receive two adjacent style profiles with notes on where to borrow from them without losing your own center.

  3. 03

    A working palette with hex codes

    Five core colors, named and numbered, with suggestions for where each one belongs — walls, textiles, accent, the small dose of contrast that makes the room feel finished.

  4. 04

    Materials, textures & silhouettes

    The woods, metals, fabrics, and shapes that read as your style on sight — and the matching list of things to actively avoid so a room doesn't drift off-message.

  5. 05

    A six-room mood board

    One reference image each for living, dining, kitchen, bedroom, bath, and a small entry — hand-selected by our editors from the Style Library so you can see the vocabulary applied end-to-end.

  6. 06

    A first-week shopping & styling plan

    Three small, specific things you can do this weekend — a paint swap, a textile change, a single piece of furniture to move — to start living in your style before any renovation begins.

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