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.

As the design landscape continues to evolve, understanding consumer desires and expectations is key to developing innovative, human-centric solutions. Sanitaryware and kitchen fittings manufacturer GROHE has identified three key macro-trends that will define home interiors over the next year and beyond, as well as the microtrends influencing colours, textures, materials, and shapes.

Today Lewis Neathey, leader of product management for LIXIL EMENA and GROHE UK, explains how experiential design, personalisation, and sustainability are shaping trends, particularly in the kitchen and bathroom spaces.

Experiential design

With a growing focus on well-being, the bathroom is evolving from a functional space to a sanctuary for relaxation and mindfulness. This shift emphasizes not just the product, but the experience itself. The introduction of GROHE’s Satin finish and products like the GROHE Rainshower Aqua Pure shower (which features an integrated filter to purify water), exemplify this shift towards wellness-focused designs.

Sustainability

Sustainability remains at the forefront of design trends. The “Evergreen” trend sees earthy greens, browns, and creams take centre stage, while biophilic designs and eco-conscious fittings are becoming a staple in homes. As we approach 2025, colour trends such as Pantone’s Mocha Mousse and WGSN’s ‘Transformative Teal’ will reflect the ongoing societal shift toward conscious living. Sustainability goes beyond colour, with a growing demand for eco-friendly features like water-efficient fixtures and recycled materials. GROHE’s Cubeo basin mixer, equipped with EcoJoy technology, is an example of such innovations.

Personalisation & customisation

Personalised design continues to gain prominence as consumers seek bathrooms and kitchens tailored to their needs and preferences. Customisable options for layout, fixtures, and finishes allow users to craft unique spaces that reflect their style and enhance daily living. Recent findings from a European GROHE study reveal that over 40% of respondents prioritise design and ambience in their bathrooms. GROHE’s Atrio and Allure Private Collections offer this trend with customisable finishes and handles in collaboration with premium quartz surface provider, Caesarstone.

Consumers are also looking for personalised experiences, with customisable shower settings and smart toilet systems offering tailored options that enhance comfort and convenience.

As we move into 2025, these trends underscore a shift towards thoughtful design that prioritises well-being, sustainability, and individuality, shaping the future of bathroom and kitchen interiors.

Leading British bathroom brand Woodstock’s head of marketing, Charlotte Tilby, reveals five key trends set to shape bathroom design in 2025.

Charlotte explains. “At Woodstock, we are going to see a strong push towards features designed purely to enhance wellness in the space, a less is more aesthetic approach, as well as the specific fusion of classic and modern styles.

We will see more homeowners building on and enhancing the current trends, taking ideas like the spa bathroom even further. More than ever, consumers are expressing a need to create boundaries within different areas of the bathroom and allow themselves to have a safe space to switch off completely within their own home.”

The art of vanity

Vanities have been on the rise for a few years now but in 2025, these rising stars are set to take centre stage with vanities and their mirror pairings becoming statement pieces.   Accessories are no longer secondary; they play a pivotal role in the bathrooms overall aesthetic. We will see the popularity of softer circles, shapes, distinctive basins, and real brassware to add an organic texture and feel to the space.

Natural wood grains

Your surroundings impact your mood, making it vital to make the correct choices. We’re already seeing huge demand for natural, or natural effect, materials and are expecting that these will gain even more popularity in 2025. Materials such as natural woods, like Oak and Walnut, stone and even organic elements like plants are sure to see pride of place in many bathroom designs.

Zonal designs

In 2025 we will see a strong push towards ‘breaking up the bathroom’, primarily through the distancing of uniform features such as glossy tiles and the introduction of calculated layouts and focal points within the space. The aim of this trend is to bring life, energy, and character to the bathroom. Some of the ways we see this being achieved is through unique touches such as wallpapers, distinct lighting, or shower niches.

Rise of the slim shaker

The fusion of classical aesthetics with modern functionality has been long overdue and is poised to anchor the evolution of bolder trends in 2025. Classical styles, traditionally characterised by refined detailing and period features, are now being reimagined with contemporary innovations. This harmonious blend retains the timeless foundation of traditional forms while integrating modern features.

Creating wellness stations

Spa bathrooms have been a monumental trend throughout 2024, redefining the bathroom as more than just a functional space by weaving relaxation into its very fabric. Bathrooms are evolving further, with a growing emphasis on ‘wants’ rather than just the standard ‘needs.’ This transformation is set to continue, shaping the way we design and experience these spaces. One notable development is the introduction of wellness stations—a designated area for organising skincare items and morning essentials, promoting easy access and efficiency.