Bathroom manufacturer, HiB, has detailed four key trends for 2025, combining functionality, aesthetics and cutting-edge style to transform interiors. Now an annual event, HiB’s Trends Guide explores what’s popular within the home interiors industry, while showcasing how these elements are incorporated into its upcoming bathroom collections.
HiB designer Jasmine Rowe explains: “The 2025 trends reflect HiB’s focus on blending innovation with timeless style. Whether creating calming retreats with natural elements or embracing bold, playful designs, these trends redefine how bathrooms can be both functional and beautiful.”
1. Natural minimalism
This trend embraces Mediterranean-inspired minimalism, incorporating earthy tones like terracotta, olive, and taupe, along with textures such as stone, wood, and microcement. Rounded shapes, arched details, and natural light create a calming, spa-like atmosphere that feels both rustic and refined.
2. Elegant maximalism
Balancing grandeur and restraint, this trend blends classical and modern styles. With rich, heritage colours like burgundy, deep greens, and browns, it sets a luxurious tone, enhanced by tactile materials such as marble, velvet, and brushed brass. The elegance is enhanced further, with sculptural furniture, bold architectural features, and large-format patterns delivering sophistication without excess.
3. Retrofuturism
This trend blends mid-century modern design with playful postmodern influences, featuring soft curves, bold patterns, and warm, muted tones like Terracotta Peach, Henna Red, and Matt Blue. Combining glossy finishes with natural materials such as wood adds a sense of richness and individuality, encouraging eclectic and personalised interiors. Let’s not forget the resurgence of the avocado bathroom!
4. Reimagined industrialism
This reimagined industrial trend embraces raw materials like concrete, wood, and stone but softens them with smoother finishes and earthy colours such as olive, terracotta, and mushroom. Bold blacks, deep blues, and polished metallic accents, such as gunmetal and black chrome, add contemporary refinement, combining ruggedness with understated luxury. The industrial trend finds the fine balance between masculine and feminine, drawing the best parts of both and making it striking yet digestible.
Jasmine adds, “We are also expecting to see consumers gravitate towards bold colours and elegant metallic finishes. Across our four trends, we see a plethora of colours, allowing consumers to express their personality but still be quite understated – they are becoming more daring, but still want to keep it subtle.
“Combining that with the ability to add daring ascents in metallics helps to add a small amount, of opulence. Finishes such as brushed brass and black chrome are now appearing in more than just taps and handles, showing up in lighting and basins, amongst other accessories.
“These trends play a huge part in influencing our design and products that we are developing for future launches, as we are not just producing what consumers want now, but anticipating what they will really desire in years to come.”
Find out more about the trends here.