10 Design Trends to Inspire Your 2025 Home Remodel
January 28, 2025
Is 2025 your year to create the home you always wanted, with warm, inviting living spaces, a functional and stylish kitchen design, and a sophisticated, spa-style master bathroom? We have the ideas to inspire your remodeling plans with the latest design trends!
From biophilic design (read on to learn what that is!) to statement hoods and lighting, design trends give you an insight into what is popular in home remodeling this year. Use these trends as a starting point, but always choose design features that fit your home, family, and lifestyle.
Bring the Outdoors Inside
Connecting indoor and outdoor spaces is a top choice for key home living areas. This year sees a renewed interest in biophilic design, which focuses on creating a connection to nature in home design. This is accomplished by introducing plants, natural light, water features, and natural materials and color schemes, among other features. The goal is to create spaces that feel grounded, calming, and connected to the outdoor environment to reduce anxiety and promote wellness.
In kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, and home offices you can achieve this by including natural wood cabinetry, stone surfaces, nature-inspired color schemes, plants that improve air quality, and windows and skylights to brighten your space. You could even take this one step further by installing a live wall where you can grow herbs.
Blending indoor and outdoor spaces is another ideal way to improve your home’s design and your lifestyle. Connect your kitchen design to your outdoor kitchen for integrated cooking. Blend indoor seating with an outdoor entertainment space by installing large windows and doors that allow light to flow and can be opened up to promote better social interaction.
Statement Range Hoods
Range hoods are an essential component of any kitchen design. You need an effective hood that fits your cooking area and can efficiently remove steam and odors. This is important in a busy kitchen where you cook daily and even more so in an open-plan space to minimize the effects of cooking on the rest of your first floor.
This year sees range hoods evolve to become a key centerpiece of a kitchen’s design style. Stylish hoods have been a component of kitchen remodels for years, but the latest design trends include large decorative hoods in color schemes, lines, and materials that stand out. By letting your range hood stand out against surrounding cabinetry and other design features, you create an immediate focal point in your kitchen design.
Decorative Lighting
No space in your home is complete without a multi-layered lighting design. This functional component can also be used to accent your room’s style, with light fixtures doing double duty to balance aesthetics and function. This year, choose light fixtures that serve as a stylish focal point, such as:
- Large pendants or chandeliers that draw attention to your kitchen island, dining table, seating area, or freestanding tub.
- Leverage an open-plan kitchen design by installing eye-catching light fixtures where that can be viewed and appreciated from different angles throughout the first floor.
- Light fixtures in a shape, color, material, or texture that stand out and accent your room’s design features.
- Wall sconces in a striking style that highlight a key area such as your vanity or a table in your foyer.
- Even dramatically backlit mirrors or under cabinet lighting can become decorative features as they elevate other elements of your design like the tile wall, vanity, or flooring.
Make sure any fixtures you choose fit the size of your space so you don’t overwhelm your room. You can establish a stylish focal point with lighting that features unusual lines or unique materials as well as with large light fixtures.
Wood Finish Cabinetry
Wood cabinetry is a timeless look that adds warm tones and natural beauty to your space, so it’s easy to see why this is a growing trend in 2025. Use high-quality wood for the best result, particularly if you are sticking to a lighter finish that lets the wood grain show through. Best of all, wood goes with almost any other accent colors and a variety of materials for your backsplash, countertop, flooring, and accessories. Oak, alder, and walnut are all top choices for solid wood cabinetry, with rift-cut white oak a particularly popular option due to its unique grain pattern.
Wood is also a perfect fit for the theme of bringing the outdoors inside. It is a natural material that helps your design to feel grounded and warm and gives any space a one-of-a-kind appearance. In addition to cabinetry, you can enhance your space with wood shelves, countertops, and hardwood flooring.
Smart Technology
Technology is ever present in modern-day life, and features throughout the home in ways that enhance your home’s efficiency and your lifestyle. In any space in your home, smart lighting, thermostats, and entertainment systems can be controlled from your phone to create an environment conducive to relaxation, entertainment, work, or study.
Smart technology also features prominently in kitchen and bathroom design in many ways, including:
- Smart bathroom mirrors have lighting, anti-fog features, Bluetooth connectivity, and touchscreen capability to display TV or play music.
- Heated floors and towel bars to create an extra cozy spa-style bathroom.
- Smart showers that let you customize temperature and flow, save presets, or even play music.
- Smart faucets that are touch or motion-activated.
Open Showers
Carefully planned showers transform a bathroom design from a purely functional space to a luxurious retreat. From large master bathrooms to compact spaces, a more open shower style is becoming a top choice. They give any bathroom a sleek and modern style with an open, seamless look.
You could go for a completely open shower style with a rainfall showerhead and a linear drain. Or pair your shower space with a custom-built wall or a frameless glass panel to partially enclose the space.
If you like the look of an open shower but prefer your shower enclosed, go for a frameless glass enclosure with a glass swing door and simple hardware. This option minimizes visual disruption and lets light shine throughout your bathroom, but still keeps moisture and steam inside your shower.
Customized Storage
Every area of your home from an entryway to bathrooms, kitchen, and bedrooms requires storage to maintain a neat and stylish space. The requirement for storage is even more essential in kitchens and bathrooms, where clutter-free spaces are necessary to keep countertops and floors clear, safe, and ready to use. 2025 sees a renewed emphasis on leveraging your room’s storage opportunities by including a variety of options, including customized storage accessories inside cabinets and drawers.
Your total storage plan could incorporate integrated features like a bathroom vanity, kitchen cabinets, beverage bar, and custom hutch. It could also leverage underutilized wall space with floating shelves, recessed niches or medicine cabinets, and alcoves outfitted with custom shelves. Don’t forget to include storage inside your shower, around the tub, and anywhere you need to readily access toiletries and other key items.
Incorporate focused storage for every item you need to keep available, with internal storage accessories, pullouts, adjustable shelves, swing-out corner storage, Lazy Susans, and drawer dividers. Cabinet makers offer a storage solution for even your most complex storage needs. Our experienced design team can help you create a storage plan that won’t fail!
Minimalism
When you think of a minimalist design for your home, your mind might veer toward ultra-modern styles that feel cold and unwelcoming. This is not the case! 2025 design trends include a focus on simple design styles with clean lines and thoughtfully chosen design features. They incorporate streamlined storage, with an emphasis on enclosed storage, that reduces countertop clutter and minimizes any visual disruption.
The goal is to create a more peaceful living environment, where you can access what you need. Best of all, minimalist designs are timeless styles that will always look good and fit any home’s design aesthetic. Start to simplify your life by decluttering and assessing your space and what you need. Then contact our design team to start planning a design that is as restful as it is functional.
Bath Designs that Promote Wellness
We could all use a greater focus on wellbeing in our daily lives, and the latest bath design trends are here for it! This year’s trends take spa-style bath designs to a new level with features that focus on promoting self-care and creating a relaxing retreat within your home.
Start by creating a clutter-free, organized, and thoughtfully designed bathroom with a layout that is easy to navigate. Create a soothing space with a color scheme that is calming and includes natural materials like wood and stone that help you feel grounded. Then incorporate features that are geared toward wellness to enhance your daily life, including:
- Rainfall showerheads, large freestanding tubs, massaging shower panels, and steam showers combine daily cleaning and wellness.
- Heated floors and towel bars that envelope you in a warm, soothing space.
- Aromatherapy and chromotherapy features, such as a chromotherapy showerhead impact all the senses.
- Textured surfaces, soft textiles, fluffy robes and bathmats, and more that transport you to your favorite spa retreat.
- Soft lighting, or even better smart lighting controls, lets you go from getting ready for work to relaxing in the tub.
Mixed Metals
Mixing metallic finishes, such as chrome, brass, or matte black, is a simple way to add character and depth to your kitchen or bath design. It is a stylish and versatile choice, that gives your design a more eclectic feel. You can easily incorporate this design trend with faucets, cabinet hardware, showerheads, towel bars, and light fixtures. Choose tones that complement each other and make sure you stick to two finishes so you don’t overcomplicate your design. The general rule of thumb is to start with a cool tone for your base color palette and then accent with a warm tone to add dimension to your design. Use your accent color to draw attention, such as gold faucets with chrome cabinet hardware.
Get Inspired and Start Creating Your Ideal Design!
Our experienced designers can help you explore your remodeling requirements, create the ideal design for your needs, and find the perfect products to fit your space and budget. Start by visiting our Gainesville showroom where you will find amazing design and product displays. Then sit down with a member of our design team to start planning your remodel!