It always feels a little strange for us to look back at the previous year each December; when you run a publication, not to mention a major annual event, your mind is always consumed by thoughts of what’s ahead. And yet, it’s now a Sight Unseen tradition to spend the final week of December reflecting back. Today we’re turning our lens to our favorite social media platform, Instagram, to share the 10 images you loved best in 2018 — which will go no doubt go down in history as the year that not one but TWO colorful tiled bathrooms topped our best-of list (ditto our #2 spot last year). We’ve joked a few times in the recent past that we should just turn Sight Unseen into a bathroom blog, and now that joke is hitting a little too close to home… Let’s just hope living rooms come back in style in 2019.

1. The perfect pink sink, by Bergman Co for the interior of the Mt. Erica Hotel
2. A gridded bathroom by Plutarco, in a project inspired by the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech
3. Artist Eva LeWitt’s solo exhibition at VI, VII gallery in Oslo (full story here)
4. The Marrakech studio of Renaissance woman Laurence Leenaert, aka LRNCE (full story here)
5. The living room of Partners & Spade co-founder Anthony Sperduti (full story here)
6. Glass vessel from a show by Fabrica at the Nomad Hotel in L.A. (full story here)
7. The Visit, an installation by Studiopepe that designer Keren Richter chose as her favorite design moment last winter (full story here)
8. The interior of the restaurant Casaplata in Seville, Spain, by Lucas y Hernandez-Gil (full story here)
9. A collaborative artwork featuring 3-D rendered sculptures by Sixnfive and Ben Willett set amidst a landscape photo by Cody Cobb
10. The ultra-trendy interior of Omars Place in London, by Sella Concept (full story here)