Top 10 Interior Design Trends to Watch in 2025
/If this is your year to reinvent your home’s style and functionality, then now is the time to get started! Kick off your remodeling plans by reviewing your existing home, paying careful attention to what you like and don’t like about your key home living spaces.
What are your top remodeling goals this year? Do you need to declutter and improve your storage? Do your living rooms need a style refresh? Is a new kitchen or bathroom design your top priority? Or perhaps you need to add space to your home with an addition? Once you understand your key goals it is time to seek out professional design and remodeling advice to help you create designs and choose products that enhance your home and lifestyle.
If you are still seeking inspiration, look at some of the latest interior design trends to see what style and functional features other homeowners are focusing on. Take these trends as a starting point, but make sure you choose design features that fit your home, lifestyle, and functional needs. Let’s get started with some of this year’s top trends!
Connecting with the Outdoors
This year’s designs will focus on connecting your indoor spaces to the outdoors. There are many ways to accomplish this goal, resulting in a warm, inviting home that brings the outdoors in and includes dining and entertainment spaces that easily flow from indoor to outdoor areas.
Incorporate biophilic design features such as calming color schemes, natural materials, plants, and plenty of natural light. The goal is to create a grounded space that promotes relaxation.
Natural materials such as wood and stone are top choices that integrate elements of nature in your home’s design, such as wood cabinetry or shelves, stone fireplace surrounds, and hardwood flooring.
Outdoor kitchens can range from a barbeque area with seating to a full outdoor kitchen design with cabinet storage, seating, cooking, and refrigeration. Connect your indoor and outdoor kitchens through glass doors for a truly integrated indoor/outdoor cooking experience.
Exterior entertainment spaces like patios, porches, and decks that are connected to your indoor dining and relaxation areas promote social engagement and extend your home’s entertainment area.
Large windows, glass patio doors, and skylights bathe your home in natural light and let you enjoy the view of your outdoor space.
Creating Cozy Spaces
If you want to bring more “hygge” (the Danish term for “fostering a sense of coziness, contentment, and well-being”) into your home, then 2025’s trend to create cozy spaces is a perfect choice! From a welcoming breakfast nook in a kitchen design to a warm reading corner in a living room, there are many ways to bring more coziness into your home. Think about how you like to relax and what spaces would introduce the maximum feeling of contentment into your home.
You could choose a bay window that gets plenty of daylight and transform it into a coffee corner with built-in seating and a small table. Or position a plush chair, reading lamp, and table to hold your current reading list in the living room design near your newly remodeled fireplace. Transform your cozy nook into a truly relaxing space by surrounding yourself with walls painted in a dark, cocooning color, selecting textiles that enhance your space with texture, and adding accessories to personalize your design. Make this a space that inspires you to put away your phone and relax with a good book or engage in conversation with family and friends.
Introducing Textures and Natural Materials
A welcoming home design will make you feel more relaxed and comfortable. We all need more of this in our lives, don’t we? Another way to achieve this is by focusing on layering textures in your home design. This design trend sees natural materials like wood cabinetry and stone feature throughout the home, creating inviting kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms. These materials work well with a soft neutral color scheme that transports you to your favorite wellness retreat. Onto these natural materials, you can layer other textures such as woven baskets for storage, fluffy blankets to curl up with on the couch, or live edge countertops and floating shelves.
Colorful Cabinetry
While neutral color palettes are always a top choice, they are not for everyone. If you love bolder colors, then you will appreciate 2025’s growing trend to introduce colorful cabinetry into home designs. From blues and greens to deep purple, butter yellow, and others, color is a great way to create a design that is all your own. You can either go all in, for example, by installing your entire cabinet design in your chosen color, or by painting your living room in that color. Or, pair an island or base cabinets in a colorful choice with wood or white upper cabinets. Use natural wood accents like floating shelves, and marble or quartz countertops to balance your aesthetic.
Statement Pieces
Including high-impact statement pieces in your home’s design creates an immediate focal point for your room. They let you draw attention to one area of your room and give your design a bespoke feel. There are many ways to include statement pieces in your design, such as:
Statement range hoods are a top choice that combines functionality and style. Range hoods are essential design elements that remove smoke and steam from a busy kitchen design. Large hoods in an eye-catching shape, color, or material draw attention to your cooking area at the heart of your kitchen design.
Decorative light fixtures can be incorporated into any room in your home. They work especially well in an open plan kitchen design, where they can be viewed from different angles throughout the first floor. Modern chandeliers or pendants are ideal over a kitchen island or dining table. Statement light fixtures also enhance a spacious master bathroom design, where they can be included over a make up vanity or a freestanding tub. In a living room or bedroom design you could include unique overhead lighting or a dramatic floor lamp to bring a touch of style to your space.
Beverage bars are another opportunity to create a focal point in a kitchen design, living room, or basement entertainment space. From a beverage center with custom cabinetry and storage for drink supplies to a full-service bar with seating, your bar can be the center of attention for family and guests.
Spaces That Promote Wellness
We could all use more time for wellbeing in our lives, so why not add features that promote wellness in your home designs? A spa-style bath design is an obvious choice to achieve this goal and can easily be created with simple changes to your bathroom remodel.
Focus on natural materials and a soft, neutral color scheme that gives your bathroom a clean, timeless look.
Include enough storage so your space remains clutter-free and therefore calming.
Create a spacious, either open or frameless, glass-enclosed shower design and outfit it with a rainfall showerhead and a massaging shower panel, or go for a steam shower that has a proven positive impact on wellness.
If you have the space, include a luxurious freestanding tub where you can soak away the stress of the day. Finish your space with a layered lighting plan that lets you switch gears from getting ready for the day to unwinding in the evening. Don’t forget to include natural light sources in your lighting plan too.
If your planned wellness routine includes increasing exercise, then a home gym equipped with your favorite workout amenities would be the answer. You can include this in an underutilized spare room, or, better yet, incorporate a gym in your new basement remodel. This is the ideal space to set up your treadmill, weight equipment, and yoga mats, away from the hustle and bustle of the family home.
Customized Storage
Integrated storage solutions benefit your entire home, keeping your living spaces clutter-free, organized, and ready to enjoy. In 2025, storage will be a top focus for home design, including built-in storage, customized storage accessories, and easy organization systems.
A remodel is the perfect time to reassess your storage needs. Start with a full room-by-room declutter and dispose of or donate, as appropriate, any broken, out-of-date, or unused items. Look at what is left and decide what you need to store in that room and what could be kept in another area like a hall closet or basement.
Next, work with your home design and remodeling team to craft storage solutions that fit your space, needs, and style.
Kitchen Storage: Create a custom cabinet design that incorporates internal storage accessories. These accessories are game changers that let you neatly store what you need where you need it, from cooking utensils and spices to small countertop appliances.
Pantry: Incorporate pantry storage either in a section of cabinets or in a separate walk-in pantry. Some kitchens, especially in open plan spaces, benefit from a butler’s pantry that includes extra countertop space and a sink to prep and stage food, and to stow dirty dishes during a party. You could even keep an extra refrigerator, freezer, or dishwasher in a larger butler’s pantry.
Beverage Bar: A full-service bar offers designated space to keep drink supplies and equipment organized and ready to use. You could add an undercounter refrigerator, an ice maker, and even a smaller dishwasher for cups and glasses.
Bathroom Storage: Bathrooms benefit from a combination of closed storage in a vanity cabinet outfitted with accessories like drawer dividers and pull-outs, along with open storage such as a recessed niche in the shower. Think about your available space and choose clever storage features like a recessed medicine cabinet that keeps your essential items organized without impacting your room’s footprint.
Closets: Throughout your home, but particularly in your bedrooms, customized closet storage can make daily life much easier. Design a space where you can organize clothes and accessories, find exactly what you need, and get ready for the day with ease!
Mixing Metallic Finishes
Not sure which metallic finish you want to choose for your kitchen or bath design cabinet hardware, lighting, and plumbing fixtures? Why limit yourself to just one? This year we see more designs including mixed metallic finishes, which is an easy way to give your design depth and an eclectic edge.
If you love the idea of adding character to your design but are not sure how to choose the right finishes, there is an easy rule of thumb to follow. First, stick to two finishes so your design doesn’t appear too chaotic. Second, pair a cool and warm tone that complements each other, such as chrome hardware and light fixtures layered with gold or matte black faucets. With this approach, your design gets a simple pop of color that creates a natural focal point without appearing too busy.
Minimalism…but with Added Warmth
Simple design styles with clean lines and plenty of closed storage to maintain a clutter-free space with minimal visual disruption are growing in popularity. This minimalist approach pairs sleek styles with warm accents and comfortable seating to create spaces that are welcoming and peaceful. A clutter-free design is essential, and to achieve this you need enough closed storage to keep your space neat and organized. Sticking to simple cabinets, countertops, and accessory styles also contributes to a calming space. Balance this with wood accents, layered lighting, and comfortable seating to achieve a minimalist space without feeling cold.
Rich Wood Tones
Wood cabinetry, flooring, shelves, and more are the perfect way to customize your kitchen or bath design, living room, home office, or bedroom. They fit many of 2025’s design trends discussed here, including connecting with the outdoors, creating cozy spaces and rooms designed for wellness, and introducing textures and natural materials.
Most wood finishes complement almost any accent colors, metallic finishes, and accessories. Choose quality wood products that will be as durable as they are stylish, especially if you plan to go for a lighter stain that lets the wood’s natural grain show. For a more balanced style, go for a two-tone kitchen cabinet design with wood base cabinets and white-painted upper cabinets, for example. Or use wood shelves and flooring to balance out cabinets painted in a bold color choice.
If you are ready to update your home this year with a remodel, get started now! Look for more inspiration in our website galleries, and then contact us to schedule an appointment with an experienced member of our design team.
