2023 Interior Design Trends featuring modern wood furniture design by Mokuzai Furniture!

A new year means new trends for home interior design!  While I am not a big believer in jumping on the hottest new trend every time someone influential says “hey you should like this!”, the trends I’m seeing for 2023 are looking a lot like things that will (or definitely should) be around a very long time.

Let’s take a look at some of the big interior design trends for 2023 and I will be sharing some examples of how Mokuzai Furniture can help you add that trending look to your home.

Trend #1 Incorporating Meaningful Objects

There is a big movement happening towards meaningful design,

leaning into authenticity and prioritizing joy.

Rather than filling your home with the latest quick-grab accessory (remember the mounted antler trend?) or that make-a-statement-but-functionally-pointless furniture piece (i.e. the acrylic side chair) the trend now is for decorating with pieces that mean something.

Meaningful design is all about selecting furniture and accessories that have a story or that tell a story.

At Mokuzai Furniture, each narrow console table, small end table, or modern wood entry table is meaningfully designed and hand-crafted with longevity in mind.  The design lines are classic, creating a style that will always be “in”.  Each console table or small side table is individually created, no two tables are exactly alike.  We document the making process through a series of photographs from our workshop and then share those with you, the customer, at the end of the process, so you can see the special story of how your particular table came to be.  As artists, we feel a special connection to our work and in turn a special connection to each customer.

When a Mokuzai Furniture table is placed in your home, a piece of our heart along with the unique story of your table's creation becomes a part of your everyday living.

Meaningful design is mixing precious family heirlooms with that unique modern furniture piece that just makes you smile.  It’s incorporating, and even highlighting as artwork, your family photos or collected treasures from a special trip.  Meaningful design is surrounding yourself with décor that reminds you of happy memories and makes you feel connected to history.

Meaningful design is decor that feels soulful and personal.

Meaningful design sounds like something we could all enjoy in our home decor for any year, any decade, and any generation to come!

Trend #2 Warm Earth Tones

Say goodbye to the trend of cool gray and all white everything, and say hello to warm browns, terracotta, soft peach, and coral!

I personally, LOVE this trend!  I am so tired of how empty gray and white can feel.  Yes, they are refreshing colors but at the same time they lack that deeper soul that warm earth tones can bring to a space.  The trending warm earth tones make a space feel like

the way the warm sun feels on your face as it comes through the window in the afternoon.

To add these earthy, warmer colors to your space without painting the entire room,

try adding a cherry console table, side table or coffee table.

Cherry is probably my favorite of all the woods we use to create our modern wood furniture.  It has this perfect, quiet elegance and it is timeless.  Here is our Classic Console Table in solid cherry.

You can put it in a kitchen with black and white décor, you can put it in a modern living room with metallic accents, you can put it in an entryway with bold primary colors, or in bedroom with muted mauve tones.  For an even more unique custom table, pair it with tiger maple for subtle contrasting.

Here is a custom Statement Hall Table and our Designer Console Table in the tiger maple and cherry combination.

Trend #3 Wellness Rooms

There has always been buzz around having a home gym.  We are all busy and being able to grab a workout without leaving home seems like the best way to actually fit it in.  That’s great for staying active, for staying physically fit, but we all need more than a treadmill to be our best selves.  That’s where this 2023 interior design trend comes in...a home wellness room!

A wellness room is a multi-functional space that is all about prioritizing your peace, whatever that looks like to you.

Our modern wood furniture designs have a certain zen like quality to them.  While not specifically Japanese style furniture, many of our design lines have a meditative aesthetic with a peaceful balance of detail and proportions.

We have actually created many of our console tables and side tables in custom sizes to be used as altar tables in calm and sacred places.

If you are designing a wellness space in your home, a narrow table from Mokuzai Furniture would be the perfect decor addition.

Trend #4 Biophilic Design

Biophilic design is a fancy way to say design that is focused on

bringing the natural world into the comfort of our homes. 

Especially following the era of Covid quarantine where all of us spent a ton of time inside, bringing nature inside has never felt more refreshing.  And there’s so many ways to achieve this trend!  Adding houseplants helps of course, and living walls are even better!  Another big part of this trend is the use of natural materials in home decor like natural stone, bamboo, sisal and wood.  You can also incorporate more organic shapes to increase that connection to the natural world.