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5 Home Renovation Spending Trends to Know About in 2025

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This graph shows a generational breakdown of renovation spend by homeowners in 2024. The darker green bars represent a similar overall median spend among seniors ($22,000), baby boomers ($20,000) and Gen Xers ($20,000). Millennials were at the low end with a median spend of $15,000.

The lighter green bars show how in the 90th percentile of spend, Gen X renovators led the pack, allocating up to $150,000 for projects. The other groups had spends between $120,000 and $125,000.

For kitchen remodels specifically, millennials’ median spend increased from $15,000 in 2023 to $20,000 in 2024. Gen Xers saw a 12% drop in median spend, from $25,000 in 2023 to $22,000 in 2024, while baby boomers spent slightly less year over year, dropping from $24,000 in 2023 to $23,000 in 2024. Seniors also scaled back: Their median kitchen remodel spend dropped from $19,000 to $15,000.

Bathroom remodels present a mixed picture. The median spend for seniors nearly doubled, from $8,500 in 2023 to $15,300 in 2024, while the median spend for millennials declined sharply, from $12,000 to $7,500. The median spend for Gen Xers decreased from $15,000 in 2023 to $13,000 in 2024, while baby boomers remained steady year over year at $15,000.

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4 Trends in New Tile Products for 2025

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Whether neutral and calm or boldly colored and shaped, tile choices keep expanding. New tile collections at The International Surface Event (TISE) and at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS), both held in Las Vegas earlier this year, displayed eye-catching, statement-making products along with more subdued selections. Tile designers are creating collections that are reflecting handmade and throwback home design trends.

“It kind of focuses on that handcrafted feel,” says Shelly Halbert, director of product design for Marazzi. “We see people are going back to more of the nostalgic, handcrafted, eclectic blends of different types of things in the house. You might have a little bit more traditional, but then you have a pop of art. So we’re seeing a lot of blending.” Here are the latest trends in tile, with some products already out and some arriving later this year.



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5 Trends in Laundry Appliances for 2025

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1. Wi-Fi Connectivity and AI Assistance

A growing demand for smarter, more connected appliances throughout the home extends to the laundry room, where washers and dryers that incorporate Wi-Fi connectivity, artificial intelligence and advanced sensors are becoming both standard and more helpful than they seemed in the past. At KBIS this year, most of the biggest players in the laundry game — LG, Samsung, Whirlpool and GE — showed off new or updated machines that used some combination of these technologies to make washing and drying clothes more efficient and foolproof than ever.

The latest LG Signature 29-inch WashTower, pictured here, is a great example of these trends in action. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze fabric types, load size and soil levels, automatically dispensing the correct amount of preloaded detergent and fabric softener and optimizing the wash cycle for better performance. The dryer’s moisture sensor then optimizes the dry cycle to save energy and prevent damage to clothing. The machines can also connect to LG’s ThinQ app, which enables users to adjust settings and start and stop cycles from anywhere, as well as control the machines using voice commands via voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. A hidden bonus is that this connectivity also allows for automatic software updates, so your appliances can evolve and gain new features over time.

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8 Key Surface Trends for the Year Ahead

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1. Surfaces That Stand the Test of Time

The theme of this year’s show was Creative Conscience, with the organizers spotlighting materials that fuse functionality, aesthetics and sustainability.

“The theme focuses on the future of materials for the built environment, driven by developments in technology, a heightened focus on sustainability and a deeper understanding of human needs,” said the show’s director, Nickie West.

A number of the brands at the show had this ethos in mind, displaying surfaces that were created sustainably and use technology to ensure they’re durable to avoid waste.

Transformad’s Tmatt super-matte surface collection (pictured) has an anti-fingerprint finish, is scratch-resistant and has self-regenerative properties. It’s also made without the use of solvents to raise its environmentally friendly credentials.

Similarly, Koukos de Lab highlighted its Koukoutsi surfaces, which are made from repurposed eco-waste. The materials are available in various thicknesses and finishes, and are easy to maintain and repair. They can also be refurbished or transformed into new products when they’re no longer needed.

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See the Top Trends in Kitchen Cabinets, Countertops and More

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4. Appliances

With advances in technology and efficiency, new appliances are an important upgrade for many renovating homeowners.

Among large kitchen appliances, renovating homeowners go for dishwashers (71%) and microwaves (70%) most frequently, followed by ranges (64%), refrigerator-freezer combinations (62%) and range hoods (61%). Homeowners also frequently upgrade cooktops (39%) and wall ovens (31%), while smaller shares opt for beverage refrigerators (18%) and wine refrigerators (14%).

For the most part, homeowners prioritize quality and aesthetics over cost. Quality is the top priority, influencing 64% of homeowners, while look and feel is most important for 50%. Though cost is a lower priority for most, 29% of renovating homeowners still cite it as the reason for their appliance purchase. Substantial shares also prioritize size (27%), specialty features (25%) and energy efficiency (22%).

Meanwhile, stainless steel is by far the leading choice for appliances, chosen by 74% of homeowners. White (7%), black stainless steel (5%) and black (3%) trail far behind.



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10 Kitchen Remodeling Trends to Know About in 2025

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1. Larger Kitchens Borrow Space From Dining Rooms

While most homeowners (64%) keep their kitchen about the same size as the original during a remodel, more than a third (35%) increase the footprint. To gain more square footage, some homeowners steal space from a dining room (29%) or a living room (12%). Nearly 1 in 5 homeowners (18%) builds a home addition, while a smaller portion incorporate space from hallways (10%) and closets (7%).

After renovations, a majority of homeowners (53%) have a kitchen that measures 200 square feet or more, up 1 percentage point year over year. Midsize kitchens (100 to 199 square feet) account for 34%, while 13% of renovated kitchens are less than 100 square feet.

“Nearly half of the homes in the U.S. are 42 years old or older and were built to serve homeowners of a different era,” says Marine Sargsyan, Houzz staff economist. “As kitchens take on a more centralized role in daily activities, homeowners are choosing to surrender neighboring rooms and exterior spaces for additional kitchen square footage to meet their needs.”



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34 Home Design Trends That Will Define 2025

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16. Organic Modern Style

Pros are excited about a rising interest in organic modern style, which happens to embody a trend toward warm and welcoming colors. As the name implies, this style encompasses natural (organic) materials, colors and shapes used in a modern way. Think natural stone and wood, creamy off-white tones, natural upholstery such as linen and rounded shapes like arches and curves.

This combination creates a warm and welcoming look that feels comfortable and relaxed. In 2024 on Houzz, many search terms associated with this style increased year over year, including “organic modern bedroom” (up 245%), “organic modern dining room” (146%) and “organic modern kitchen” (97%).

This Austin, Texas, living room by Cedar & Oak embraces an organic modern look with curved architectural details, rounded furniture forms and organic colors and materials. Searches for “organic modern living room” were up 66%.



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4 Decorative Lighting Trends for 2025

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Metals warm up. The warming and darkening of metals, which we’ve seen in both lighting and furnishings for a couple of years, continued into this season. Brass finishes keep getting redder and richer, as in this burnt brass Lund table lamp from Four Hands. And while brass remains the most popular finish, especially in traditional- and transitional-style lighting, we saw more oil-rubbed bronze and especially forged iron than we saw just last spring. Many of these metal fixtures feature hand-textured and burnished finishes and metalwork details such as perforations and knurling. And often they’re paired with warm, candle-like bulbs that create a moody glow.

On the flip side, we saw significantly fewer of the powder-coated white metal fixtures that were popular a couple of years ago.

Other materials to watch. Alabaster and natural stone bases and accents have been popular for years now and show no sign of leaving showrooms. But we’ve seen a transition from white and gray marbles to much warmer, veinier and more colorful stones over the past few seasons. Also, gorgeous, handmade ribbed, waffled and otherwise worked glass returned to showrooms in force this fall after making a splash last spring, and seems to be expanding in popularity.



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5 Furniture Trends for 2025

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But square accents add visual tension. There’s a key difference this time around in how manufacturers are styling the curvaceous pieces in their collections. While larger furniture pieces were mostly rounded, they were paired with sharper accent pieces and accessories featuring checkered, gridded, plaid and tumbling-block patterns to create refreshing contrast.

This vignette from Four Hands illustrates the trend beautifully with its combination of square and curved patterns and shapes. Notice the rounded set of Bennett chairs, which are from the Texas company’s newly expanded collection with designer extraordinaire Amber Lewis.

Incidentally, nested or multilevel occasional tables like those pictured here seemed to appear in every collection at the market.

Other patterns to watch: Tapestry-like florals and tribal patterns had an even larger presence this season than they did at the spring show, and stripes (especially thin stripes) were big too. But designers seem gleeful about a return to pattern in general, so expect a lot more of it in upholstery, drapery and wallcoverings — often layered on top of one another and even on larger furniture pieces — as we head into 2025.



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6 Trends From the 2024 London Design Festival

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Furniture by Lewis Fleming

3. Combining of Past and Future

While technologies such as 3D printing and AI open the door to new possibilities in product design, there remains the question of how we can also retain traditional craftsmanship. PR agency Informare hosted a discussion, The Heritage and Futurism of Design, at Soho Lighthouse to look into the issue.

A panel of design experts talked about how contemporary design is influenced by historical principles and how we can find a balance between preserving traditional skills and embracing cutting-edge technologies.

An exhibition in collaboration with the British Council, Jhuley Lal: Crafting the Contemporary, fused the work of emerging UK and Pakistani designers with local craftspeople from Khairpur, Shikarpur and Karachi to highlight how traditional skills and contemporary aesthetics can merge.

Meanwhile, in Chelsea’s Design District, visitors could take a look at Gaze Burvill’s Woodland seat, an outdoor bench made from a mix of old and new techniques. Complex parts have been manufactured using CNC machining, while the traditional skill of steam-bending has been used to finish off the product.

At the Material Matters exhibition, an example of this melding of old and new could be seen in Lewis Fleming’s furniture and lighting designs (pictured), which use a mix of Japanese craft and modern manufacturing techniques.

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