Five kitchen trends you need to know, now, to help style-led consumers achieve their interior design ambitions

Now 2025 is upon us, it’s time to consider the looks, concepts and technologies set to rule kitchen design for the next 12 months.

With the open-plan kitchen a permanent fixture in many houses, expect its influence to expand even further into the home.

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Whether designed as a focal point, or to “vanish” into an holistic interior scheme, the kitchen will build on being a grounding place to gather and where homeowners can explore and stamp their identity.

While 2024 highlighted the skinny shaker, built-in oven with air fryer, porcelain surfaces, along with touch-free lighting and taps, what will the next 12 months bring?

We handpicked industry experts for their thoughts to create a curated list of top five kitchen trends for 2025.

1. SENSORY APPEAL

Materiality will play an ever greater role in the kitchen as the design effortlessly flows into other spaces in the home.

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Nature-inspired marbles, walnut and oaks, fluted surfaces, alongside calming neutral colours, such as Pantone’s colour of the year Mocha Mousse, will create warm, nuturing and tactile environments.

Used in tandem with living space-inspired furniture, kitchen design will further play into its role of a cocooning social space.

Managing director at Leicht Contracts Sarah Edwards states: “Interior spaces will promote seamless living and provide a new take on the neutral colour palette with warm whites, greys and soft shades of beige coming through as signature colours.”

2. BOLD VEINS

With furniture offering low contrast design in the home, it will be the role of worksurfaces to provide drama with bold colours and large-scale veining from laminates through to engineered stone.

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Senior marketing communications manager at Wilsonart Bekki Griffiths points out with compact laminates “customers can now choose from an endless variety of statement-making decors spanning natural stones and elegant marbles to contemporary concretes and even woodgrain.”

While MD of CRL Stone Simon Boocock predicts: “While kitchen colours have remained relatively neutral, we are seeing homeowners becoming braver with their worktop choices as they opt for attention-grabbing surfaces.”

And these will be used thoughtfully throughout the kitchen design, as he adds: “Surfaces that make a stunning visual impression on worktops, splashbacks and even feature walls will be an increasingly popular choice.”

3. INVISIBLE TOUCH

Customisation will be key in the kitchen, from material and colour choices, but the ultimate individualisation of a kitchen space is when the homeowner wants to display it to guests.

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Alongside the “now you see it, now you don’t” concealed breakfast bars, utilities and panties, will be complete kitchens hidden behind doors.

Kitchens manager at Miele GB Tom Hopper comments: “The focus will be creating ‘invisible’ kitchens, where appliances are integrated and clutter is hidden.

“Features like pocket doors, home bars, and walk-in pantries will help keep kitchens sleek and organised.”

Marketing manager at Novy UK Jenny Nailborczyk agrees: “At the top end of the market, the interior trend for 2025 will be for the ultimate in minimalism – kitchens that don’t look like kitchens because you cannot see any of the appliances.”

With that in mind, Novy has collaborated with Cosentino on Undercover, an induction hob concealed in 20mm Dekton, available in the second half of the year.

4. SUSTAINABLE LIVING

With such deliberation over how the kitchen appears and functions, it’s perhaps unsurprising the same careful thought will be paid to where materials come from and will end up – as recycle, repair and rehome lifestyle philosophies take hold.

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But all this will be without compromise, as sustainability has to be hand-in-hand with style.

UK senior sales manager for Neolith Ross Stewart comments: “Compared to 2024, this year’s trends will reflect a heightened awareness of sustainable living, with a greater emphasis on eco-friendly materials that don’t compromise on style or durability.”

Head of group marketing and product proposition at PWS Lizzie Beesley agrees and believes there will be a “broader desire for sustainable materials with a low carbon footprint, with homeowners being more eco-conscious.”

5. HEALTH BENEFITS

Unleashed during the pandemic, and gathering pace ever since, the kitchen now plays a starring role in protecting health through improved hygiene.

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As consumers spend more space in the room, it makes sense for it to not only look beautiful but actively impact wellbeing.

Touch-free taps, air sanitising extraction, as well as sinks and ovens with easy clean surfaces or self-clean technology will be in focus, alongside a continuing need to personalise the space.

Design manager of Abode Paul Illingworth remarks: “2025 will focus on beauty, innovation and utility, as the wet zone continues to evolve in the kitchen living space”.

And Jo Sargent, sales and marketing director of Franke, concludes: “Products that deliver multi-functionality, customisation, ease of use, wellbeing and style will offer high appeal to consumers, for example hoods with air sanitising technology, multi-funcitonal and touch-free taps or tactile natural and luxurious surfaces.”