Happy New Year! With the New Year comes new design trends. Whether you plan to build or do a major renovation in 2025, consider incorporating your favorite design elements, as well as ones that reflect the time (and may become timeless). We’ve curated a list of options to fit nearly every room or area of your home, and these are just some of the possibilities we can help include in your home design.
Table of Contents
English Style
Range Alcoves
Paneled Appliances
Integrated Countertop Features
Shower Rooms
Narrow Wet Rooms
Health, Wellness, and Beauty
Rounded Furniture
Arches
Woven and Mesh Details
Sophistication in the Laundry Room
Final Thoughts
English Style
The kitchen is said to be the heart of the home, and with open concept living that combines living, kitchen, and dining spaces in one, giving the kitchen a touch of 2025 trend may be just what you need to set it apart from the rest of the home. One of those designs is the comfort and coziness of the classic English style. Some of the features include cabinets in rich wood, historical colors like moody blue or green, and natural counters made of soapstone or butcher block. Other features that reflect the English style are range alcoves, wood beams on the ceiling, and a ‘collected’ look as if pieces have been collected over time rather than installed all at once.
Range Alcoves
It’s not just because they’re part of the classic English style that range alcoves are making a statement in 2025. The alcove is a recessed area that offsets the range from the rest of the linear cabinetry, counters, and other appliances. Other distinguishing features include arches, a unique back splash, and definition achieved by surrounding walls.
It’s an architectural element that becomes a focal point in the kitchen, and an added stopping point to break up the straight lines of cabinets and counters.
Paneled Appliances
Wrap your kitchen in style and warmth when you make your steely, shiny, metal appliances fade into the background. Add paneling that matches the rest of the kitchen cabinets to those appliances and you’ll have guests asking “where’s the fridge?” Just don’t make the mistake of paneling over just the doors, leaving the edges exposed and effectively ruining the visual warmth and welcome you were trying to achieve.
Integrated Countertop Features
As if having your range top and some basic power outlets on your kitchen island wasn’t enough, make room in 2025 for even more integration. One of the best new features in engineered surfaces for the kitchen is burners or charging features integrated directly into the slab. One popular surfaces company, Cosentino, announced in 2024 it’s now offering the integration of wireless charging hardware company FreePower’s charging surfaces in all of its products. While it may look like your phone and ear bud case are just sitting on the counter, the next time someone picks them up they may be fully charged!
When it comes to countertop integration, porcelain may be king. It can be cut thin enough to accommodate the systems for integrated gas burners, and can also be cut thin enough to cover an entire induction cooktop! Another question your friends may have is “where is the range?” The hidden cooktop heats up when induction-compatible cookware is used.
Shower Rooms
The light and airiness of frameless glass shower enclosures will remain popular, but they may need to make room for the newest design trend: shower rooms. The room offers even more privacy, featuring a glass door that closes and creates a fully-enclosed space. Enjoy a spa-like experience when you add features like steam and sauna functions, aromatherapy, and chromotherapy. Don’t fret about mold or mildew spreading to other areas of the bathroom, the powerful ventilation fan that will also be installed keeps moisture from spreading outside the room.
Narrow Wet Rooms
In the past, wet rooms – a room that combines a separate shower and bathtub rather than the typical tub/shower combo – were a feature of larger bathrooms with plenty of space to spread out. Their rise in popularity, however, has prompted homeowners to find a way to incorporate them into smaller bathroom spaces as well. These narrow wet rooms are created by placing the bath tub at the end of a narrow bathroom, and installing the shower fixtures just in front of it. When planning your layout with Acipe Design, we can help you design the best layout to accommodate for a wet room in your secondary or smaller bathrooms.
Health, Wellness, and Beauty
These are some of the most popular discussion points when it comes to bathrooms in 2025. Homeowners continue to chase the spa-like experience for their home bathrooms. They’re constantly looking for ways to add elements that nourish, rejuvenate, and calm mind, body, and spirit. Features include shower heads spraying filtered and purified water, attachments for massaging and scrubbing, and aspects that include aromatherapy, aduiotherapy, and chromotherapy. There’s almost always a need to store and organize a number of bottles, tubes, and containers of health and beauty products. Lotions, cosmetics, application brushes, hair accessories, and more all need a place. As a result, homeowners are getting creative with storage, with makeup stations that feature specialized integrated storage for all the ‘stuff’.
Rounded Furniture
Stemming from the growing interest in organic modern style, rounded form furnishings are an up and coming design contender for 2025. Items like circular coffee and dining tables with cylindrical legs, oblong mirrors, bulbous sofas and accent chairs, among other items are popping up in all the latest interior styles.
Arches
The curved and rounded designs don’t stop at furniture in 2025. The arch – part of the same organic modern style as rounded furniture – is also being featured prominently. Arches offer a softening to harsh square angles and reflect a cozy and welcoming feel, perfect for any room in the home. Consider adding arches to doorways, windows, niches, cabinets, and millwork details. The popularity of the arch for 225 will also extend to items like mirrors, headboards, and more.
Woven and Mesh Details
Glass fronts have been popular in the past for breaking up expanses of cabinets, creating a unique design in many custom kitchens. In 2025, skip the glass and opt for woven or mesh fronts. These natural woven materials also soften hard edges and add warmth in way that glass can’t. Woven and mesh details are popping up in other areas of the home beyond the kitchen, including bathroom vanities, furnishings, and window treatments.
Sophistication in the Laundry Room
I’ve lived in homes where the laundry area was part of a larger work room that contained a work area with tools and a work bench, the HVAC unit, and giant concrete wash tubs, apartments where the laundry room was the same size as a guest room closet, and laundry rooms that were utility rooms with just the machines and HVAC system.
My dream laundry room has the machines, a large counter for folding, a large sink for washing delicate items, at least one hanging bar, upper and lower cabinetry for storage of soaps and other cleaning tools, and possibly a built-in ironing board, with plenty of space to move and work. If were to follow some of the latest trends for 2025, I could have all of this and add in some of the English style found in the kitchen – rich cabinet colors, luxury finishes, wallpaper, elegant lighting, and even artwork and other décor.
Final Thoughts
- The staff at Acipe Design knows you want to stay on-trend when it comes to your new home build or renovation. We can help you incorporate some or all of the designs we’ve talked about here, or add even more of the up-and-coming designs for 2025 in your space.
- Contact us today!