Kitchen Style Forecast for 2025: A Designer and Trend Expert Reveals Simple Modifications to Adopt
Modern Kitchen Trends for 2025
In the year 2025, kitchen designs are set to undergo a transformation, with a focus on functionality, sustainability, and aesthetics. Here are some key trends to watch out for:
Modular Kitchen Cabinets
The kitchen of the future will feature highly modular cabinets, seamlessly integrated with space optimization solutions. These cabinets will be made from sustainable and recycled materials, while maintaining minimalist designs with natural colour palettes. Smart appliances will be integrated into these cabinets, making them both functional and stylish. Innovative features such as electronic opening support for drawers and doors, and advanced cooking functions with easy controls, will add to their appeal.
Textured Glass
Textured glass is expected to be a popular trend in modern kitchen designs. Ribbed or fluted variations will be commonly used in upper cabinets and island drawers, adding visual depth and character to the kitchen. Kailee Blalock predicts a shift towards softer, more natural textures for textured glass, such as waved designs or Flemish glass. Existing glass-fronted cabinets can also be transformed to achieve the textured glass look using films available on the market.
Unlacquered Metal
Unlacquered metal will be a rising trend in kitchen interiors, with copper being a prime example. Copper will age with time, resulting in a rustic patinaed look. Unlacquered metal can be introduced through larger moments like the faucet, or smaller commitments like antiqued metal vases, or unlacquered cabinet knobs and pulls. Kailee also predicts that unlacquered metal styles will be popular for kitchen hardware trends in 2025, resulting in a patinaed, more antique and lived-in feel.
Zellige Tiles
Zellige tiles are a popular choice for kitchen designs in 2025, known for their striking tactile quality, handcrafted imperfections, and versatility in colour, shape, and pattern. These tiles can be used creatively in various applications such as backsplashes, baseboards, trims, small focal points, and statement walls. A pack of 4 Zellige tiles covers 2.22 sqft, and a set of 4 costs $80.
Wooden Accents
Wood-drenching your kitchen or adding chic wooden accents can help achieve the warm-stained wood trend in 2025. A smaller wooden accent piece, 16" L x 7" W x 2" H, costs $49, while a larger piece, 11" W x 18" H, costs the same amount. A wooden item, measuring 37" H, is available at a 32% discount, with an original price of $255 and a discounted price of $172.33.
Design trends for 2025 are shifting towards darker woods and warmer-toned wood finishes, moving away from the previous trend of white oak wood. Exotic woods like burled wood may become more popular in kitchen interiors.
These trends aim to create a kitchen that is not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing, reflecting the homeowner's personal style and values.
