It’s time to get inspired for your 2025 kitchen or bathroom design by exploring some of this year’s top design trends! From practical solutions like customized storage to style enhancements like wood tone cabinetry or lifestyle enhancements like spaces designed for wellbeing, this year’s trends offer ideas for updating every space in your home.
Start by examining your home and your design goals. Which rooms in your home are most in need of an update? What do you like and dislike about those rooms? What will your family’s needs be for the lifespan of this remodeling project? Find inspiration in the latest design trends, but make sure you choose style and functionality features that fit your needs. Work with an experienced design and remodeling team to make sure you get the most out of your remodeling investment.
Let’s get started by exploring 10 of this year’s top design trends!
Warm Wood Tones
Wood is a beautiful and durable material used in many spaces throughout the home. In kitchens and bathroom designs, wood is a perfect choice for cabinetry and open shelves, while in kitchens and living areas, wood flooring provides a timeless style in a surface that can last for decades and longer. Wood countertops in a kitchen design also bring natural warmth, especially set against classic white or deep blue cabinetry.
Design features in warm wood tones are growing in popularity as they create a welcoming space with a timeless style. Wood fits many of 2025’s key design themes including connecting to the outdoors, creating cozy spaces for relaxation, and enhancing designs with textures and natural materials. Go for a higher quality wood for stained wood cabinets, especially if you plan to choose a light finish that lets the natural grain show. Another option for kitchen designs is to balance your room’s style with a two-tone cabinet design featuring wood base cabinets and white (or another painted color) upper cabinets.
Customized Storage Solutions
Every home needs effective storage solutions to function properly. When your home lacks sufficient storage, you are left with cluttered surfaces that disrupt daily life, look messy, and are unsafe to navigate. Storage features throughout the home from a coat closet in a mudroom to kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, utility and laundry storage, and master closets. In an effort to create welcoming spaces where you can relax and enjoy home life, this year sees a renewed emphasis on customized storage designed to fit your needs, exactly where you need it. This could include:
- Bathroom vanity storage, with closed storage to fit all your bathroom essentials. Vanities can include internal storage accessories, like drawer dividers, pullouts, built-in bins to hold styling tools, and storage outfitted with electrical outlets and charging capability.
- Open bathroom storage, such as a recessed shower niche, a ledge near the tub, floating shelves, or an alcove outfitted with shelves.
- Kitchen cabinets, with a custom cabinet design that includes storage accessories ranging from corner swing-out shelves to narrow pullouts, mixer lifts, and much more.
- Pantry storage, either included in a section of cabinetry for easy accessibility or in a separate walk-in or butler’s pantry.
- Specialized kitchen storage, which could include a beverage center, a baking section, or a snack area. Decide what you need for your family, which items are most important to you, and discuss your design goals with your design expert.
- Closets, including hall closets, kids’ closets, and master closets, all benefit from customized storage solutions that make daily life less stressful and more enjoyable.
Other spaces, such as laundry rooms, home offices, mudrooms, living rooms, and more, can include customized cabinetry. With the right targeted storage, you can keep everything from cleaning and pet supplies to entertainment setups and your collection of vinyl records organized.
Wellness Features
Is one of your 2025 goals to introduce more time for wellbeing into your life? By introducing design features that promote wellness into your home, you can more easily have time and space every day to take care of yourself!
A spa-style bathroom design is an ideal choice to create room for daily relaxation. Start with an efficient layout and plenty of storage to make sure your bathroom is clutter-free and ready to enjoy. Choose a soothing color scheme and natural materials with luxurious textures that promote relaxation. Include features that will transport you to your favorite spa like a steam shower, massaging shower panel, rainfall showerhead, and freestanding tub. Include a layered lighting plan, space to hold candles or diffusers, and an integrated sound system so you can play relaxing music or meditations while you chill out.
Universal Designs
Designing spaces to fit the needs of your entire household will make everyone safer at home and life more enjoyable. Universal design ensures that every member of your household can easily navigate and use the space, with thoughtfully integrated features that enhance safety while complementing your home’s style.
Universal design seeks to seamlessly incorporate design features that improve liveability for everyone from a household with young children to those planning to age in place, anyone requiring a mobility aid, and others. Features like wider doorways, thresholdless showers, installing handles instead of knobs, ensuring there is adequate lighting, and accessible storage, among other features will help you to create a stylish home where everyone can live comfortably.
Simple Design Styles
Simple designs with classic features, plenty of closed storage, and clean lines offer a minimalist style that still retains a warm, inviting atmosphere. Stick to sleek styles for cabinetry such as Shaker or slab door cabinets with minimal embellishment, simple cabinet hardware, and carefully curated accessories. By thoughtfully choosing every feature of your design and including enough storage to maintain clutter-free surfaces, you create a space that has minimal visual disruption and promotes a calming atmosphere.
Custom Range Hoods
A customized range hood that stands out in your kitchen design becomes a statement piece and helps to define your design style. Hoods are an essential, practical feature of a kitchen design that removes smoke and odors from your space. They are prominently located above the range and, when combined with a large size, unique shape, contrasting color, or unique material they become a natural focal point in the room. From custom wood or plaster painted in a color that complements your design to a stainless steel hood in an unusual shape or a mixed metal hood for a bold contrast there are many ways to create an eye-catching customized hood.
Decorative Lighting
Light fixtures are another design feature that can be both functional and stylish. A multi-layered lighting design is essential throughout your home to ensure that you can easily see to perform key tasks while also having soft lighting throughout the room. A dimmer switch or smart lighting controls help you to easily go from performing jobs like cooking to hosting a cocktail party with ease.
Add decorative light fixtures that perform these lighting duties while also becoming a stylish focal point. They work especially well in a spacious, open plan kitchen design where the light fixture can be viewed and appreciated from multiple angles. Modern chandeliers or colorful pendants work well over an island or dining table, drawing attention to that space. In a bathroom design, sconces, vanity lights, and chandeliers all present an opportunity to enhance your room’s design style and draw attention to your vanity or freestanding tub.
Cozy Spaces for Living and Dining
We all love to go home to a cozy, welcoming atmosphere, where home is our sanctuary from the busy outside world. In 2025, we see a focus on design features that up your home’s coziness factor. Create a cozy breakfast nook by choosing a space with plenty of natural light and including built-in seating with plenty of cushions and a table where you can enjoy a cup of coffee and a good book. An open plan kitchen design could include a cozy living area with comfortable seating, a reading lamp, a lush rug, and blankets to curl up under while you enjoy a glass of wine.
Connecting to the Outdoors
Biophilic design and features that encourage a connection between indoor and outdoor spaces are becoming more popular than ever. There are easy ways to create this connection, and the result is a warm, welcoming space that promotes feeling grounded and relaxed. Biophilic design can be incorporated into any space in your home with natural materials and a warm neutral color scheme, as well as by including plants, water features, and plenty of natural light.
In addition to windows, glass doors are another excellent way to let in natural light and also create a direct connection between indoor and outdoor dining and entertainment spaces. They allow you to connect your kitchen to a deck with a grill and space to eat outside. This setup also allows you to extend your space to relax and entertain.
Natural Materials and Textures
Natural materials and textures are an ideal addition to a kitchen or bathroom design. They add depth to your design without making it too busy and give it a natural warmth that creates a welcoming space. Include wood cabinetry and shelves throughout your home for storage. For a truly natural touch, stick to high-quality wood in a light stained tone. Stone tile or fireplace surrounds, natural countertop materials with unique veining, and even wood countertops enhance your design aesthetic. Accessories like woven baskets for storage, soft textiles like blankets and cushions in a seating area, and a wooden tray on an island are all simple ways to layer textures in your design.
Are you ready to update your home’s key living spaces? Find inspiration for your new kitchen or bathroom design in this year’s design trends, from warm wood cabinetry to statement range hoods, spaces that connect to the outdoors, and more. The latest trends balance style and functionality to create spaces that are as practical as they are enjoyable. Let’s work together to create your ideal home design. Contact us today to get started!