3 kitchen trends you'll be seeing more of in 2025

These are the three kitchen trends emerging for 2025, the moods and moments that are helping to create calming, warm and inviting homes.

Design journalist Pip Rich, editor of interiors bible Livingetc, explains the ways designers get it right.

The use of copper in the kitchen for hardware, accessories and even countertops

Copper detailing

For years, brass has been the gold standard finish for taps, handles and finishing touches. Designers have been drawn to its sleek metallic flash, less cool than chrome and complementing marble.

But in the past six months, several designers have - totally separately - mentioned copper to me. It’s referred to because of its warmth, the way it bounces light while adding a rose-tinted glow and also because of the verdigris patina it takes on as it ages.

Expect to see a lot more copper hardware choices, a lot more copper accessories on countertops, and even a lot more copper countertops. The future is bright, the future is, well, orange.

Floor tile motifs

Because kitchens are meant to be hearts of the home, designers have been experimenting with new ways to add character and charm, making them more inviting, more like places you'd want to hang out.

A lot of that has been about pattern, and explains the rise of the kitchen rug and how textiles have found their way onto kitchen floors. But rugs in kitchens get dirty fast, and also ruck up and become a trip hazard.

So step forward the tiled floor motif instead. Multi-coloured chevrons, graphic mosaic reinterpretations of famous paintings and even messages spelled out. What will your kitchen say about you?

Waterfall islands

Taking the countertop material over and down the side of the island is a much more seamless approach to design, creating a minimalist scheme where there is less to jar the eye.

It works best with marbled finishes but we're also seeing concrete, aged metal and even lacquered waterfall islands.

It means that detail can come from other places - in the way you display jars on open shelves, or art on the walls or ingredients on racks - or that you can create a super-calming overall effect with the island matching the counters and back-panels, too.

Whichever way you go with them, waterfall islands are making a splash.

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