9 Design Trends to Watch in 2025
By McDaniels Kitchens and Bath|Kitchen Design
Are you ready to reimagine your home with a kitchen design, bathroom remodel, custom closet design, or living room update? If you have a space in your home that needs a style and functionality overhaul, our experienced team can help! Let’s get started by exploring some of 2025’s top design trends to help inspire your remodeling plans. Get an idea of which spaces you need to update, what your key design goals are, and your timeline and budget for your remodel. Then visit our full service design showroom and meet a member of our team to get started on creating your design.

Custom Closet Organization
Decluttering and organizing your home can help you simplify your lifestyle while creating a calming atmosphere. Custom closet organization systems feature prominently in this year’s designs, offering options to make daily life more efficient and enjoyable.
Closet systems can benefit many spaces throughout your home, from a hall closet to a pantry or mudroom. Bedroom closets, particularly a master suite especially benefit from customized closet organization. Install a combination of adjustable shelves, drawers, bars for hanging clothes, dividers for accessories, and shoe storage.
Create storage solutions that fit your available space and your needs so every item is neatly put away and ready to access when you need it. This makes getting ready so much easier, from weekday mornings to getting ready for a night out, saving you time and energy.

Bold Color Choices
For key spaces in your home such as kitchen and bathroom designs, neutral color schemes are always a top choice. They are timeless color palettes that fit any design style and go with a wide range of accent colors, materials, and textures. However, neutrals are not for everyone! If you love bolder colors, then 2025 is your year, because there is a growing trend to include colorful cabinetry and other design features in kitchens, bathrooms, and more.
Blues and greens are top choices, along with black, deep purple, butter yellow, and more. Choose a color you love and that fits your home’s aesthetic and incorporate it in thoughtful ways in your design. For cabinetry, you could go for it and install your entire cabinet design in a bold color choice. Or create a balanced, two-tone design by pairing base cabinets in your chosen color with upper cabinets in white or a light wood shade. Accent your colorful cabinets with wood floating shelves, quartz countertops, and other classic materials to complete your design.

Mixing Metal Finishes
Metallic design elements ranging from plumbing fixtures to cabinet hardware and lighting feature throughout your home, but are especially prominent in a kitchen design or bathroom remodel. They are functional features but also serve as design accessories based on their shape, color, and finish.
2025’s design trends brings metallic fixtures into the forefront by introducing more mixed metallic finishes that add depth and an eclectic edge to any design. They are an easy way to add character to your design by combining metallic finishes to draw attention to specific design features. Make sure you stick to only two finishes to avoid making your design too busy and combine a warm and cool tone that complement each other. Typically you should have one main finish for most of your metallic features and then use your second finish to create a stylish focal point, for example for faucets or light fixtures.

Biophilic Design Influences
What is biophilic design? This design principle is a way to connect your living spaces to the outdoors by including calming, natural color schemes, natural materials with different textures, plants, and ample natural light through large windows and glass doors. Biophilic design seeks to create calming, grounded living spaces that are truly a retreat within your home.
Wood and stone are ideal natural materials for this design style and can be included in cabinetry, countertops, backsplashes, flooring, and fireplace surrounds. Pay careful attention to planning for natural light when designing your space, including windows, doors, and skylights. They are also an ideal way to connect indoor and outdoor spaces, letting you enjoy the view, open up windows to let in fresh air, or open doors to easily move between indoor and outdoor cooking, dining, and entertainment spaces.

Smart Technology
Technology is our constant companion these days, from smartphones to computers, smart home systems, and navigation apps. We use smart technology to manage many aspects of our daily lives so it makes sense that the latest trends would see technology play a larger role in home design. There are many ways technology can help to improve your home’s efficiency and your lifestyle, including:
- Smart faucets or showerheads allow you to manage the flow and temperature of your water. Smart faucets can be touch or motion-activated. Smart showers let you save presets so everyone can have their perfect shower at the touch of a button, and can even play Bluetooth music or include chromotherapy features.
- Bathroom mirrors can include a wide range of ways to enhance your experience, including lighting, anti-fogging, Bluetooth connectivity to play music, meditations, or podcasts, and touchscreens that show the news, weather updates, and more.
- Heated floors and towel bars can be set to warm up your entire experience in a spa-style bathroom design, making you cozy from the moment you step foot into the bathroom.
- Smart appliances, such as refrigerators, ovens, and more let you monitor and control your appliances from a smart device. You can turn your oven on or off, track contents while out so you don’t over-shop, and monitor expiration dates to reduce food waste, among other features.
- Smart lighting is an ideal addition throughout the home, which lets you easily control light levels from your smartphone.
Put technology to work for your design this year by identifying which features will help you most with your daily life!
Open Showers
Who doesn’t love a relaxing shower? A well-designed shower is both a practical space for daily hygiene and an aesthetically pleasing space that enhances your bathroom design style. The trend toward more open shower styles, especially when paired with a range of showerheads that improve your experience, also creates showers that are focused on relaxation and wellness. Open shower styles work well in every bath design, from compact spaces to spacious bathrooms, and let you create a seamless look for your bathroom.
They can be as open as you like, from a fully open wet room style shower to a shower with a frameless glass panel or a partial custom wall that separates the shower from the rest of the bathroom. A more open shower style lets light shine through your space and minimizes visual disruption, letting your shower tile and plumbing fixtures become a stylish focal point.

Statement Hoods
No kitchen design is complete without a range hood. Whether you cook once a week or three times a day, you need a range hood that can meet your needs to remove smoke and cooking odors from your kitchen design. In an open plan first floor this becomes even more important so you can keep these cooking odors from impacting your entire first floor.
Range hoods have also become a stylish focal point in many kitchen designs, and 2025 sees this trend continue. Go for a large hood in a spacious kitchen design that dominates the room and draws attention to your cooking zone. You can also enhance your kitchen’s style with a range hood designed in a bold or contrasting color, unique materials, or a striking shape.

Natural Textures
Natural materials and textures feature in this year’s kitchen and bathroom designs and are an ideal way to enhance and personalize your space. Natural materials work well with many of this year’s key design trends, including connecting to the outdoors and creating cozy spaces designed for wellness. They complement any design style and help to make your home feel more welcoming and bespoke. From wood cabinetry to stone tiles, hardwood floors, live edge wood countertops, reclaimed wood floating shelves, and more natural materials let you layer textures to add depth to your design. Add accessories like a wooden tray on your countertop or woven baskets for storage to complete your design.
Is this year your time to create your ideal home living spaces? From kitchen designs to bathroom remodels and everything in between, this year’s top design trends offer inspiration for updating your home. Our full service design showroom offers more inspiration with a wide range of product samples and full design displays. Plus you can schedule an appointment with an experienced member of our team to start planning your ideal design!