Few rooms define your home as much as the kitchen. Whether you love the 1700s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, or more contemporary styles, bringing your design vision to life starts in the kitchen. Discover the biggest kitchen remodeling trends of 2025 for comfort, elegance, and luxury.
Kitchen Remodel Trends for 2025
Remodeling projects allow for deeper transformations. Redefine your favorite styles with attention-grabbing layouts, room additions, and finishing touches.
1. Artisan Backsplashes
In 2025, interior designers are choosing high-end stone for kitchen backsplashes, including marble, granite, slate, limestone, and travertine. Artisan backsplashes add elegance to traditional and contemporary kitchens alike. They create a cohesive pop of style around the room, from stove to sink.
Instead of intricate mosaics and geometric patterns, this year’s kitchen remodels are incorporating large squares, rectangular tiles, and full sheets. For even more visual flair, create a countertop-to-ceiling stone accent wall. If you want more opulence instead, choose a copper or bronze backsplash.
2. Pantry Enhancements
One of 2025’s top kitchen remodeling trends is the butler’s pantry, or kitchen scullery. In terms of size, a scullery is similar to a walk-in pantry, usually with a sliding door. Instead of rows of open shelving, however, a butler’s pantry has cabinets, a sink, appliances, and countertops.
This back pantry is essentially an en-suite mini-kitchen off the main kitchen. You can use it for:
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Prepping food
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Staging courses
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Storing place settings for special occasions
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Keeping party ingredients at hand
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Gathering tableware and/or washing dishes
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Serving meals or drinks
Sculleries are versatile; the layout, design, and function of the space depend on your preferences.
Some couples like having a closed-off area to put dirty dishes during parties, leaving cleanup for later and enjoying more of the evening with guests. During Super Bowl parties, your main kitchen island is perfect for serving buffet style, and you can keep plenty of food and drink reserves in the scullery to prevent clutter.
3. An Island for Every Kitchen
The popularity of kitchen islands isn’t going anywhere in 2025. In fact, a unique island that fits the room’s ambiance is more important than ever. Here are a few island trends:
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Extra storage on the sides
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Seating
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Undermount sinks
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Integrated hardwood or glass cabinets
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Mixed material countertops
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Cooking appliances
In 2025, kitchen designers are taking a maximalist approach to islands: Bigger is better. As long as space permits, modern islands often combine seating, cabinets, and either sink/food prep or cooking stations.
4. Dark Wood Surfaces
Medium and dark woods give your dream kitchen timeless luxury, beauty, and personality. In 2025, nearly every style of kitchen remodel includes a few layers of wood accents:
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Hardwood flooring
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Cabinets
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Kitchen island tops
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Open shelving
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Accent tables
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Exposed ceiling beams
Going with darker wood varieties makes the kitchen feel warm and inviting, but also traditional and elegant.
For cabinets, choose oak, cherry, walnut, or hickory for naturally deeper tones, or opt for reddish-brown finishes with maple or alder. Darker hardwood flooring choices include Brazilian koa, Brazilian redwood, black acacia, black cherry, and heart pine, a Southern classic.
5. Closed-Concept Elements
Open layouts for the kitchen, dining room, and living area are still popular with many homeowners, but there’s a growing movement toward closed- or semi-closed kitchen remodels, especially for families. Some parents are discovering how much they missed having a private, quiet kitchen to disappear to.
Dining nooks create a comfy space for eating breakfast as a family, sharing a romantic meal as a couple, or sipping your coffee with a good book. Partial walls and kitchen peninsulas are other ways to divide the space for a traditional look.
6. Professional Kitchens
There’s been a resurgence in the popularity of French- and Italian-style kitchens, complete with overhead racks for pans, hand-hammered copper pans, and earthenware cooking pots — plus wood-fired pizza ovens outdoors. These classic kitchens use distinctive range hoods to emphasize Mediterranean vibes, such as copper, bronze, or antique finishes.
At the same time, home chefs are embracing cooking as a hobby, outfitting their prep areas with commercial-grade appliances and specialized tools (kitchen scales, food thermometers, stone mortars and pestles, bamboo steamers, etc.). High-performance range hoods help keep the kitchen clean even when using professional-grade stove burners, griddles, and broilers.
7. Cottage Styles
Whether you live on a sprawling ranch in California or in a colonial home on the East Coast, a cottage kitchen can be the ideal fit for your space. Cottage-style kitchen remodels are the epitome of 2025 design trends: cozy, comfortable, charming, and classic. This type of kitchen is family-friendly and functional, with wood accents and natural lighting.
8. Venetian Plaster
Limewash paint and Venetian plaster wall surfaces fit right in with 2025’s emphasis on warm luxury and Old World charm. The limewash technique leaves walls with a textured matte surface and subtle shade variations. Venetian plaster is glossy, looking almost like marble. Both options are ideal for luxury kitchens and accent walls.
9. Open-Air Interiors
Outdoor kitchens are amazing, but they’re not the only way to enjoy fresh air, garden scents, and beautiful vistas while you’re cooking. Open-air indoor kitchens are one of the most innovative kitchen remodeling trends for 2025.
In Europe, this type of space is called a walk-out kitchen. The main kitchen inside your home extends to a covered patio outdoors. Floor-to-ceiling sliding doors, retractable doors, or glass folding doors close when needed for privacy and security.
Luxurious Kitchen Design Trends in 2025
Does it feel like years since you’ve refreshed your kitchen’s design? With the complete shift away from cool neutrals, 2025 is an ideal time for a change.
10. Warm Accents
Italian families have the right idea when it comes to kitchen design. An old Italian proverb says, “A tavola non si invecchia,” or “At the table, you don’t grow old.” There’s nothing better in life than good food, family, friends, and love.
How do you make a kitchen feel warm, comfy, and laid-back? It’s all about the little things:
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Soft textures
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Accent rugs or wall textiles
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Pops of red, orange, and yellow
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Wood surfaces
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Cushioned seating, pillows, and throws
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Plants
For example, you can use a wood range hood or island-style range hood for country comfort styles to give the kitchen a rustic touch.
11. Rich Browns
Emotionless grays are out. Pantone’s color of the year for 2025 is a soft brown called Mocha Mousse. This warm hue evokes fine chocolates, French luxury, and the comfort of home. It’s time to create a kitchen dedicated to unwinding, indulging yourself, and making happy memories.
Layers give brown kitchen designs their charm. Combine a dark brown accent wall with auburn flooring, clear-finished hardwood cabinets, bamboo chairs, or lush indoor plants.
12. Copper, Brass, and Bronze
Not a fan of stainless steel? Make your dream kitchen stand out with warmer metal accents:
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Copper range hoods
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Copper sinks and faucets
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Brass light fixtures and cabinet hardware
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Bronze tables and seating
Copper is the warmest of the bunch, ranging from rose-gold accents to rich orange hues. Polished brass takes on a golden gleam, transforming range hoods into glamorous accent pieces. Oil-rubbed bronze is darker, adding an antique air to pendant lighting, sconces, metal furniture, and decorative pieces.
13. Perfect Imperfection
Today’s kitchens are moving away from designs where every element falls perfectly into place — as if you were getting ready for a photo shoot in Better Homes & Gardens. Instead, the ideal kitchen is about how it makes you feel. A little imperfection gives the space a welcoming, human touch.
Here are a few suggestions:
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Place accent pieces because they make you happy, not because they adhere to some weird geometric pattern.
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Decorate with flowers and plants, and don’t worry about the precise placement.
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Choose a kitchen island with a hand-hewn or reclaimed wood countertop.
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Use similar shades instead of exact color matches.
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Embrace metal patinas that become more beautiful and unique over time.
Imperfection can even mean mismatched dining room seating. Did you stumble across a chair or bench that speaks to your design vision? Buy it and use it. Individual pieces don’t need to seamlessly complement the rest of your furniture.
14. Curved Lines
The latest kitchen trends are replacing minimalist forms and hard edges with curved contours. Curves allow for softer simplicity. Round shapes are an excellent way to add touches of 1970s vintage and modern art. In 2025, curvy design is showing up in:
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Oval or rounded kitchen islands
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Curvy countertops and shelving
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Arched entryways
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Half-moon window frames
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Rounded light fixtures
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Circular breakfast bars
Use curves sparingly for a bigger impact. A rounded farmhouse sink stands out from a straight countertop beautifully.
15. Contrasting Materials
What sets high-end kitchens apart is their uniqueness. The whole point is to express your creative vision and your family’s individual style.
When customizing a kitchen, don’t think you need to follow a rigid pattern throughout the room. Contrasting materials make the space eye-catching and interesting.
This is a year to embrace the eccentric and atypical for kitchens:
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Integrate one-of-a-kind accent furniture.
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Choose different woods or finishes for your dining room table, kitchen island, range hood, and cabinets.
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Create a kitchen island that combines a marble countertop and a wood table extension.
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Use a variety of metal accents, including copper and stainless steel.
This concept pairs well with the brown kitchen theme. You can use a similar color palette but very different materials, including leather, textiles, metal, wood, brick, and earthenware.
16. Vibrant Cabinets
Many homeowners are throwing caution to the wind with bold cabinet colors and bright combinations. White cabinets and furniture are mostly out. Here’s what’s in:
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Green: Emerald green for exotic luxury, teal for sophistication, jade for relaxation, and light greens for country accents
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Red: Bright reds for Italian, mid-century modern, 1920s styles, or salmon for contemporary flair
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Yellow: Lemon or light yellow cabinets with white backdrops, stainless steel accents, and dark hardwoods
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Blue: Soft blues with espresso-colored finishes and brass accents
Orange kitchen cabinets are harder to pull off, but some designers are successfully tackling the challenge with glossy finishes, retro rugs, or even gradients that go from dark to light along the room.
17. Classic Kitchen Styles With a Personalized Twist
Do you love country kitchens but want something unique? Infuse elements of other countryside styles for a personalized touch:
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Farmhouse: Pair wood counters and handcrafted tables with lots of light, and layers of white, brown, and bright colors.
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Mediterranean: Contrast brick accents and open-air spaces with luxurious counters, gleaming metal, and rich wood finishes.
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French country: Combine a rustic kitchen island with copper accents and Parisian elegance.
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Coastal: Design with monochromatic palettes, large windows, and natural materials.
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Old World: Embrace timeworn surfaces, hand-hammered metals, reclaimed wood furniture, and stone or tile flooring.
With distinctive cabinet finishes and kitchen accents, you give country comfort a new meaning that fits your family’s needs.
The Latest Kitchen Trends and Tips
Need inspiration? These kitchen design trends may be the right finishing touch for your masterpiece.
19. Color Drenching
Instead of shying away from color, go all in. Color drenching uses single-color design palettes proudly, with identical tones or varying shades of green, yellow, red, or blue. Highlight your chosen color on walls, cabinets, decorative accents, and artwork, and use woods and metals for contrast.
20. Flush Mount Lighting
Instead of chandeliers or recessed lighting, use flush mount light fixtures. This makes kitchen verticals feel larger and adds 1920s chic.
21. Bohemian Design
Turn your kitchen into an expression of your personality, travels, and life experiences. Open shelving, recessed window niches, and custom kitchen islands with display storage or bookcase add-ons let you show off your passions and antique collections.
22. Functional Minimalism
There’s nothing unstylish about embracing relaxation in the kitchen. A simple, comfortable, and functional kitchen has quiet elegance. Your family can fill it with all the joy and excitement you need.
Discover Bold Accents for 2025’s Kitchen Remodel Trends
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