Up Next: 21 Design Trends for 2024 - Remodelista

Our trend forecast for the year ahead: sumptuous curtains, hand-stitched details, unfussy tablescapes, and an overwhelming obsession with stainless steel.

Meet the kitchen of the not-so-distant future: stainless steel all the way—particularly sleek standalone versions, like this one, Abimis’s Ego line in a home in Varese, Italy. 1. Stainless Steel Kitchens

If 2023 was the Year of the Wonky Whisky Glass, this year wine glasses get the whacky treatment. 2. Tipsy Wine Glasses

Photograph by Germán Saiz, courtesy of Plantea Estudio, from this week’s Casa Guzman: A Family’s Generations-Spanning Coastal Home Gets an Inspired Update. 3. Built-In Sofas It’s the year of the built-in sofa—a good way to make use of unused corners, awkward nooks, and window areas just crying out for a lounge spot.

Suddenly, shiny, super-thin shelves are everywhere we look. 4. Sleek Metal Shelves

5. Flos Pendant Lights Poised to make its fair share of cameos this year: the sculptural 1960s Flos Viscontea Suspension Light (and its lookalikes), spotted here in A One-Room Cabin in the Catskills by TBo. Photograph by Matthew Williams for Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home.

Embroidered details are everywhere—the more handmade and imperfect, the better. 6. Hand-Stitched Details

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The trend in tablescapes: using the good silverware, but not being fussy about it. Use your best tablecloth but forgo the iron. 7. The Imperfectly Perfect Fancy Table

Now noting: the folding screen repurposed as headboard, seen here in a guest room at The James Bradley Hotel (and via Paris interior designer Fleur Delesalle and Wuuu Studio in Malaysia). 8. Folding Screens as Headboards

You know the old saying: Make new friends, but keep the old; 9. Vintage Silvery Serveware

one is silver and the other gold. The heyday of warmer metals is past (so long, all-brass-everything), and silvery pieces, both new and vintage, are making a return to the table.

Not just for pants: The nostalgic texture is making a comeback as upholstery this year, and it only gets better with age. Shown: Holland & Sherry Olive Corduroy fabric on a pair of chairs from Nickey Kehoe. 10. Corduroy Seating

11. Bedspreads with Seams The simple bedspread has been making a comeback of late; this year, look for coverlets with visible seams, like this one in a Melbourne project by designer-on-the-rise Brahman Perera (and one to buy from Once Milano).

Photograph by Francois Halard from the new book Rose Uniacke at Work. 12. Hotel Curtains So long, soft, delicate curtains?

The most unexpected trend of fall 2023 shows no sign of letting up as fish make appearances in art, on ceramics, and all over the house. 13. Fish, Continued

14. Sink Skirts in the WC Photograph by Danielle St. Laurent from Studio Visit: California Style in an East Coast Enclave. The Great Kitchen Sink Skirt Revival moves into the bath: We predict pleated and gathered wrap-around sink skirts will appear in washrooms both bold and plain.

Stripes are in: on headboards and sofas, curtains and cushions. 15. Stripes of All Sorts

Noren, Japanese room dividers with a slit down the center (and sometimes more than one), are appearing in doorways lately. 16. Japanese Split Curtains

Terra cotta tiles are taking over this year, not only on floors but on walls, kitchen islands, backsplashes, ledges, and more. Photograph by Pablo Zamora from 12 Ideas for Tight Quarters from Design Stars Casa Josephine (and see also: Remodelista Reconnaissance: Textured Terracotta as Wall Covering). 17. Terra Cotta Tiles

18. Citron Photography by Jonathan Hokklo, courtesy of TBo (@tbo_architecture). Our color prediction for 2024? Bright, citrus-y chartreuse, used sparingly, i.e. in a tiny powder room, on cabinets, or on a curtain, as seen here in Astarita Pizzeria.

This will be the year that tapestries make a comeback—both ornate draperies, like this one (above) spotted via Nordic Knots, and this one via French vintage specialists Nomibis, as well as good old-fashioned quilts hung on the wall. 19. Tapestries

20. Interior Shutters (Photography by John Daniel Powers, courtesy of Patrick Bernatz Ward, from ‘Old California’ in an Updated 1907 Arts & Crafts-Style House in Los Angeles.) Shutters are moving inside—where they’re being used to make a statement, whether they’re perforated, color-drenched, or wooden.

Photograph by Derek Swalwell, courtesy of Kennedy Nolan, from Prospect & Refuge: A Spectacular Coastal Home Both Wild and Cozy. Expect the wood paneling trend of the past to get turned up a notch, with striated wood cladding on surfaces all over. 21. Striated Wood Read more