If this is your year for a home remodeling project, then the latest design trends offer the perfect inspiration for updating your home. From warm, inviting color schemes to statement range hoods and lighting, and space designed for wellness and relaxation, this year’s design ideas offer the perfect balance of functionality, aesthetics, and lifestyle trends.
When planning a design for your home, it helps to seek inspiration from the latest interior design and remodeling trends. You must also factor in your family’s needs, your home’s style, your approach to maintenance of your space, and your budget. There is no point choosing a stylish trend that looks great in a photograph if it clashes with your home’s décor or your lifestyle.
An experienced design and remodeling team like Guthrie Kitchen & Bath Plus LLC can walk you through the entire design process and help you select a color scheme, materials, and more to bring your design vision to life. Let’s get started by exploring some of this year’s top home design and remodeling trends.
Add Warmth with Wood Tones
While classic neutrals like white, cream, beige, and gray never go out of style, we see a renewed interest in using wood tones in kitchen and bath design. Wood is a natural and durable material that immediately imbues any space in your home with a warm, inviting, and stylish feel.
Cabinetry in tones ranging from natural wood to darker stained finishes are ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, or living rooms. Wood finishes also work perfectly in almost any style design and can be used throughout your home, not just for cabinetry, but also open shelves, flooring, countertops, and more.
From oak to walnut, and more, solid wood enhances your home with natural beauty, especially if you go for a lighter finish that lets the natural wood grain take center stage. Choose a high quality wood, especially for lighter finishes, to get the best results for your home. Wood is also a perfect fit for this year’s trend of connecting your home living spaces to the outdoors, letting your home’s interior feel more grounded and calming.
Enhance Style and Functionality with Customized Storage Solutions
We all know that a home lacking in sufficient and targeted storage will be a cluttered mess. This takes away from your home’s functionality since you cannot maintain clear work surfaces, find what you need, and easily clean up. In addition, it detracts from your room’s style, since busy, cluttered surfaces make it more difficult to enjoy your design, and also makes your space less relaxing.
There is an easy solution to this problem, which can be applied to any room in your home, no matter your style or even the size of your space. Create a carefully planned layout that includes customized storage solutions that meet your needs and maximize your available space. With the right storage your home will be a relaxing space where you can enjoy spending time. Here are some of the top things to consider when planning your home’s storage:
- Kitchen cabinets form the foundation of your kitchen’s layout and create your essential workspace and storage. Include a variety of cabinets, drawers, and internal accessories that create space for every item you need to store. This could include drawer dividers, narrow pull outs, mixer lifts, rollout shelves, corner swing out shelves, and more.
- Bathroom vanity cabinets, similarly, create your essential closed bathroom storage, where you can neatly stow toiletries, make up, and more out of sight. Vanities also benefit from storage accessories such as pullouts with space for your styling tools and hair products.
- Open shelves can be found in almost any room in the home, and offer extra storage that doubles as display space. Choose a shelf material, such as reclaimed wood or metal, that accents your design style. Be careful what you choose to store on these shelves, as overloading them contributes to clutter.
- Recessed niches and other open storage like cubbies or a ledge in the shower provide room exactly where you need it to store items at arm’s reach, such as shampoo and shower gel in the shower.
- Medicine cabinets are a great idea in a bathroom and can even be installed as a recessed cabinet to save space.
- Pantries can either be included in a section of cabinetry in your main kitchen cabinet design, or as a separate walk-in or butler’s pantry.
- Other kitchen storage could include a custom beverage bar, wine storage, a snack zone, or a baking area. Decide how you plan to use your kitchen and create storage to fit your needs.
- Closets, particularly master closets, can be transformed with custom shelving, cabinetry, drawers, and hanging storage. In a large master closet you could even add an island for extra storage and space to fold clothes, lay out outfits, and organize accessories.
Other spaces that benefit from storage include the laundry room, mudroom, living room, and more. Cabinet storage, shelves, and cubbies are all options for these space that keep your home organized.
Improve Your Lifestyle By Connecting to the Outdoors
Connecting living spaces to the outdoors is a top choice for this year’s home designs. We see an interest in biophilic design, which focuses on creating a connection to nature in home design. You can accomplish this by choosing a color scheme rooted in nature, such as earthy tones, blues, and greens. Select natural materials for your design, like wood, stone, and natural textiles. Introduce water features, plants that improve air quality, and plenty of natural light through large windows and glass doors.
Use these doors to connect indoor and outdoor entertainment spaces, such as a kitchen design that opens onto your outdoor kitchen or a living room that connects with a deck or porch. This extends your entertainment spaces when the weather is nice, and improves social interaction by letting guests flow between indoor and outdoor seating areas.
Make a Statement with a Beautiful Range Hood
A range hood is an essential, practical component of any kitchen design. No matter the size of your kitchen or your cooking habits, you need a range hood that keeps your kitchen area free of smoke, steam, and cooking odors. This year’s range hoods also take on a starring role in your kitchen design, as we see more range hoods serving as stylish focal points. Choose a hood that draws attention with its size, material, color, and more. Custom hoods can be designed in wood, stainless, other metals, or plaster. You can choose a hood that blends with other elements of your design such as your cabinetry or stainless steel appliances, or select a design that stands out in a bold color or material to make it a truly stylish focal point.
Up Your Style Game with Decorative Lighting
Similarly, lighting is a functional feature of any home design. It must include a multi-layered lighting design that takes you from targeted task lighting to softer ambient lighting. Depending on the size of your room and how it is used, often one light fixture can serve more than one purpose, particularly when it is paired with a dimmer switch or smart lighting controls.
Light fixtures can also be decorative features, and 2025 brings stunning lighting that creates a stylish focal point. From large pendants to modern chandeliers or decorative sconces, there are many stunning light fixtures to choose from for any space in your home. Use your light fixture to draw attention to a particular area in your home, such as the kitchen island, dining table, or a freestanding tub. In an open plan first floor, dramatic light fixtures can be viewed and enjoyed from multiple angles throughout the space.
Choose fixtures with a unique shape, material, texture, or color to accent your room’s style. You can also install lighting that highlights key design features, for example that spotlight a decorative tile feature. Backlit mirrors are perfect for a bathroom design as they provide light where you need it and create a dramatic and stylish effect.
Enhance Your Wellbeing with Rooms Designed for Relaxation
If this is your year to enhance your wellbeing, why not include home design features that promote wellness in your everyday life. By including simple changes in your home, you can ensure that you have time and space in your daily life for self-care. Here are a few ideas for improving your wellbeing through design features:
- Transform your bathroom design into a spa retreat. Choose a layout that includes plenty of storage to maintain a clutter-free space, add a soothing color scheme and natural textures, and include features like a steam shower or freestanding tub that promote relaxation.
- Include soft lighting and cozy seating in your kitchen design, such as a welcoming breakfast nook or a soft chair where you can relax with a cup of coffee.
- Create a living room designed for relaxation with comfortable seating, warm blankets, and a layered lighting design.
- Add Bluetooth speakers throughout the house that let you play your favorite music, guided meditations, or inspiring podcasts.
- Include space for aromatherapy diffusers or candles that let you add pleasing scents to your rooms.
- Plants improve air quality and help you feel connected to nature, which is an automatic mood booster.
These changes, from remodeling updates to simple accessories can help create a space where you will love to relax and unwind!
Improve Accessibility with Universal Design
Whether you are creating a kitchen or bathroom design for a home with growing children or for aging in place, universal design principles will improve accessibility for all users of your home. These simple design features make your home safer and more accessible without taking away from style.
By thoughtfully integrating features you can ensure that your design fits everyone’s lifestyle and needs for the duration of the design, whether you are teaching your baby to walk or using a mobility aid. Include key features like wider doorways, no threshold showers, shower benches, grab bars, accessible storage features, handles in place of knobs, rocker switches, adequate lighting in key locations, and nonslip surfaces. These features and more will keep everyone safe and comfortable, making home a more enjoyable place.
Go Eclectic with Mixed Metals
Mixing metallic finishes add depth to any home design and give your space an eclectic edge. There are so many ways to include this design trend, particularly in kitchen design or bathroom remodels. Cabinet hardware, faucets, showerheads, towel bars, light fixtures, and more all introduce metallic finishes in your design. Make sure you choose tones that complement each other, and stick to only two shades so your versatile design does not turn into a busy mess. Typically, you would start with one color, such as a cool tone for your base color scheme, and then layer a second accent color in a warm tone. For example, pairing gold and chrome in different design features gives you an eye-catching, yet balanced, design.
Are you inspired for your 2025 home design? This year’s designs focus on balancing style and functional features to create home designs that enhance your aesthetic but also fit your lifestyle and personal needs. Visit our Pleasant View, TN showroom to see more amazing examples of stylish and functional designs and to meet a member of our team. We would love to help you bring your design vision to life!
