24 Joyful, Playful Decor Pieces That Spark Smiles

If it’s not sparking joy, what on earth is it doing in your home? It’s a question posed by a new slew of personality-packed interiors, including a 1930s London house revived by Studio Raymond – a project brimming with what firm founder Carina Raymond calls ‘moments of fun and surprise.’

Indeed, warmth radiates from every inch. It’s felt not only in grand gestures like color-drenched cinnamon walls and ceilings or a fireplace vignette that swaps the usual oil painting for a flutter of sculptural wall-mounted butterflies, but in the smaller surprises too: a clever skirt on a piece of furniture, a surface that should be smooth but instead is woven, a face-vase one can’t help but giggle at.