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A japandi living room with a low boucle sofa, a solid oak coffee table and a walnut sideboard, lit by a paper pendant

Japandi Style: What It Is, and How It Works Room by Room

Japandi is the overlap between Japanese restraint and Scandinavian warmth. Here is what defines it, what it costs to get wrong, and how it lands in each room of a house.

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A cottagecore kitchen with sage painted cabinets, a butcher-block counter, a farmhouse sink and open shelves of mismatched stoneware

Cottagecore Decor: How to Get the Look Without It Becoming a Costume

Cottagecore started as an internet aesthetic, not an interior style, which is why so many cottagecore rooms look staged. Here is how to translate it into rooms you can live in, including the dark cottagecore variant.

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A hygge living room in the evening, lit only by lamps, candles and an open fire, with layered wool throws and a basket of yarn

Hygge: What It Means, How to Say It, and How to Build It Into a Room

Hygge is a Danish word for a quality of atmosphere, not a furniture style. Here is what it actually means, how to pronounce it, and the small number of decisions that produce it in a real room.

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A wabi-sabi bedroom with limewash plaster walls, a low timber platform bed and creased washed linen in bone and stone

What Wabi-Sabi Means, and What It Looks Like in a Real Room

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic built on impermanence, imperfection and age. It is also the interior style most easily faked. Here is the idea, its origin, and how it translates into rooms.

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An organic modern living room with a curved cream boucle sofa, a rounded travertine coffee table and a large olive tree

Organic Modern Interior Design, Explained Room by Room

Organic modern keeps modern architecture's clean lines and replaces its hard edges with curves, warm neutrals and natural material. Here is what defines it, and how it lands in each room.

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A biophilic living room with a clear window onto trees, a timber table, plaster walls and large-leaved plants in floor pots

Biophilic Design at Home: The Principles, and What They Look Like in a Room

Biophilic design is not a houseplant strategy. It is a framework about light, materials, airflow, prospect and refuge, and most of it costs nothing. Here is the theory, then room by room.

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