The Interior-Design Trends Taking Over TikTok

Cluttercore is maximalism with main-character energy. Think curated chaos: art-stacked walls, teetering book piles and curiosities in cloches. This is a trend that requires no investment, for the beauty of cluttercore lies in displaying what you already own. Look to art director Max Hurd’s home for inspiration – it’s layered with family heirlooms, portraits and towers of books – a truly welcome antidote to the Marie Kondo-coded rooms of yore.

18th-century opulence never really went away – but it’s certainly trending now, thanks in part to the Marie Antoinette Style exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the upcoming 20-year anniversary of Sofia Coppola’s cult biopic of the controversial queen. This trend needs little unpacking – it’s all clashing chinoiserie, loud fabrics, ornamental objets, gold leaf and more pastel tones than a tower of macarons.

Just when you thought you’d reached peak tablescaping, the internet throws you #HostingCore. The key to this trend is more is more; think of your table as an art installation. It’s all about show-stopping, super-sized desserts (see London-based events group Tables’ XXL berry tart), theatrical candle arrangements, butter sculptures (courtesy of Herrlich Dining), langoustine towers (by the queen of surrealist cuisine, Laila Gohar) and mountains of fries piled on giant silver platters (à la Le Supper Club). If you can set a theme, even better. Look to Alighieri’s new line of sculptural gold-leaf-dipped cutlery and Fourth Street’s mismatched candle sets for some truly talking-point tableware.

This trend is about all mismatched styling. Think of it as layer upon layer of references: a riot of prints, colors and design movements that, on paper, wouldn’t seem to work, but somehow just do. This alchemy is best seen in its full glory at stylist Lucy Williams’ house – a bricolage of her favorite design influences, as well as the fruits of years of collecting. Interior designers such as Meta Coleman and Beata Heuman helped to spearhead the genre; the trend has even captured the attention of the fashion-influencer crowd, previously prone to more minimal designs. Look no further than Accidental Influencer Molly Blutstein’s recent bathroom renovation, with its folky wallpaper and Art Deco details.

The kitchen pantry is the new walk-in wardrobe ­– or so the ever-growing hashtag would suggest. Instead of getting its kicks from perfectly positioned Jimmy Choos, the internet is going nuts for color-coded condiments, labelled Kilner jars and food ‘zones’. For the uninitiated, it was the self-proclaimed “pantry perfectionists” on The Home Edit who kick-started this obsession with micro-organizing. For a more relaxed approach to storage, follow in the steps of Berdoulat designs, whose walk-in, floor-to-ceiling pantry is the kitchen pipe dream.