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Contemporary home design inspiration for 2023

3 min read
Oct '25 • by Heather

Quick summary

Contemporary home design ideas for 2023 focus on creating open, light-filled spaces with features like bi-fold doors, blending modern materials such as steel and brick, and adding colourful accents. Extensions are designed to be clever, often staggered for privacy and light, with costs varying based on complexity, starting around a few thousand pounds for simple updates and rising for structural changes.

Heading into 2023 with a desire to transform your home? Perhaps you’re finding your current space a little dated. Maybe too cramped? Not enough light? If that’s the case, you might be wondering how other homeowners have used modern trends to shape their favourite spaces.

At Resi, we design hundreds of homes each year, so know just what trends are shaping the nation’s builds. To inspire you for the year ahead, here are some of our favourite projects we’ve worked on in the past, and how contemporary design has shaped these properties…

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One of the biggest themes in modern design is the desire to bring better connection between the outside and inside spaces. For this reason, bi-fold doors have taken really taken off in recent years. These constantina additions not only offer full glazed walls without the need for structural glass, their unique way of unfurling gives homeowners the chance to open up the entire rear of their home.

In this design, envisioned by Resi designers, we’ve taken the bi-fold door one step further and included a floating corner. These allows for the doors to open up even further, helping to give this London townhouse an illusion of more space in their kitchen and living area. However, homeowners considering this option should be aware that complicated structural elements such as this do come with a higher price tag, as they’ll require special consideration from a structural engineer.

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