Here are my top favorites out of Architectural Digest’s top 50 most pinned photos for the year. Don't expect a DIY manual or craft tutorial for any of these interior design ideas today. Let’s call this top 10 the 'Ultimate Inspiration' instead for how to create our own Fabulous Interior Designs. Perhaps we can find a few DIY projects to do from the ideas shown in these wonderful shots, so that we can ‘take them home’.
You can see from my collection of sample interior design ideas that I still have that old Italian farm idea my head, even though we moved to London, UK, now… Italy. Will it ever leave my soul?!
Top Interior Designs Styles #1
It is hard to give these top 10 numbers from 1 to 10 as I love them all. So, one on my top favorite interior designs is this barn style living room that is filled with Ralph Lauren décor.
Top Interior Designs Styles #2
This elegant farm style kitchen is something I can only dream of. Practical and beautiful and ultimately very livable. I could see myself getting freshly squeezed orange juice in the morning in this kitchen. Don’t you?
Top Interior Designs Styles #3
This is my real favorite porch style picture. I just love it. It is hard to tell if this room is inside or outside. Comfortable, relaxed and oh so elegant … all at the same time. While it is reminiscent of an Italian farm, this living room filled with wooden beams and wicker furniture is really in Southern California, I believe.
Top Interior Designs Styles #4
This seems like an achievable bathroom, à la restoration hardware. It is however custom-designed. Shiny chrome hardware with black trim for mirrors and lamps work well together, and allow for timeless updates and easy style changes over the seasons.
Favorite Interior Design 5
In contrast to this bathroom, which is loaded with personal character and definitely more European in style. I prefer the additional light in this room, achieved by the mirror wall, white walls, ceiling and floor. The gold adds pure glamour.
Favorite Interior Design 6
This bed frame is a classic. What works very well here is the high contrast wall color and ceiling moulding. Then , the overall monochromatic nature of the bedroom with greys and tans adds elegance. As beautiful as a 5 star luxury hotel bedroom, but more personal. Who would not want to call this home?
Favorite Interior Design #7
This São Paulo house is so exotically, eclectically artistic and so cheery. It feels like a Saturday morning and you are about to meet the artist in his bathrobe. This is so attractive. Not 'calm', but so interesting and entertaining.
Top Interior Designs Styles #8
Contrast that with the monochromatic design in this designer bedroom.
Favorite Interior Design 9
The next photo made me gasp. I my goodness, I just A D O R E this garden pool. Again, feels like a wonderful 5 star resort to me, and I want to go there this upcoming summer. Gorgeous. It’s in Miami.
Top Interior Designs Styles #10
Last but not least, this pool is of a famous, but not too outlandishly famous writer, in Key West, Florida. Oh, may…. Who would not want to wake up in this bed and then put a bathing suit on and dip into this pool? How refreshing.
Love them all!
Learn the details about these favorite interior designs and garden designs at the Architectural Digest website, as well as the 40 other top pinned design ideas. Update 2024: AD have taken down its original article, but equally, they added many other featured interior designs to their site, that are awesome too.
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