
Interior Design Clinic
Midimalism and Texture: The 2026 Interior Design Trend
<p>Midimalism is a terrible word for a real thing. It's the middle ground between Scandinavian minimalism and full maximalism, and the phrase the trade keeps using is comfortably imperfect.</p><p>Hana and Marcus work out whether there's anything underneath the word. The strongest evidence is Etsy, which this year named a texture of the year rather than a colour, for the first time ever. It's washed linen. Zulufish's Caroline Milns says the thing that now dates a room is a flat, one-dimensional wall, rather than the colour on it.</p><p>Then the materials: wool, jute, bouclé, hide, a...

