Bathroom Design Trends to Enhance Your Space in 2025
Bring a new style and sense of luxury to your bathroom for 2025. Whether you’re remodeling your bathroom from fixtures to floors or simply sprucing up the color scheme, get inspired for your home projects with these design trends.
1. Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Fixtures
Making your bathroom more sustainable begins with the appliances and products you use. Low-flow toilets, fixtures and walk-in tubs, tankless water heaters, reclaimed woods and sustainably sourced materials (including linens) can help reduce your energy bills and environmental impact.
For an environmentally inspired design, coordinate tiles and wall paint with towels, rugs and accent pieces. Look for earth tones that calm the mind, such as spruce and sage green, beige, and muted or slate blues.
2. Spa-Inspired Luxury
Make every day a spa day and create an atmosphere of relaxation that harmonizes the senses. Calm the mind with natural light, muted colors, plush towels, and essential oil or fragrance diffusers to uplift the atmosphere. Even small steps go a long way, like decluttering or adding house plants. For added luxury, consider installing heated floors and a rainfall shower head.
With features like hydrotherapy jets, aromatherapy and chromotherapy, the Safe Step Walk-In Tub adds another indulgent level of comfort to your spa-inspired bathroom.
3. Smart Technology Integration
Everyone has their own preferences for how technology integrates into daily life. For your bathroom, smart technology can help improve accessibility and overall convenience. Consider fixtures like Bluetooth and waterproof speakers, touchless faucets and soap dispensers, smart mirrors and smart scales with app connectivity for increased metric tracking.
Look for smart features in your bathroom’s existing appliances, too. Many walk-in tubs include LED touch pads and water-resistant, floating remotes to increase convenience and reduce strain.
4. Mixed Metals
Mix metals on fixtures and furniture hardware to create contrast in your bathroom. Choose a dominant and accent metal to maintain consistency, but avoid using more than two or three different metals in one room.
Balance cooler and warmer metals, such as stainless steel with oil-rubbed bronze or brass. Mixing metals that are too similar in tone, such as chrome and brushed nickel, can create confusion and may look more accidental than stylish.
Consider the finishes (matte or gloss), colors, materials and textures in your bathroom when choosing metals, too. Most metals are versatile, though it helps to pair cool metals (chrome, silver) with cool colors (green, gray), and warm metals (gold, brass) with warmer and bolder hues (browns, reds, also deep blues).
5. Biophilic Design
Deepen your connection with nature at home. Biophilic, or “the human tendency to interact with other forms of life in nature,” comes from the Greek words bio (life) and philia (friendship or love). Biophilic bathroom design incorporates elements from nature to improve wellbeing and rejuvenate the senses.
When redesigning your bathroom, consider natural lighting, stone and wood, an abundance of plants and botanical-print wallpaper. Bright floral tones contrast nicely with lush greens, open spaces and dark wood.
6. Stone
Stone is a versatile, durable bathroom material used everywhere from flooring and countertops to shower and tub walls. Find your Zen with natural stone like slate or limestone, which offer slip resistance. For countertops, marble, granite and onyx bring a timeless elegance.
Keep in mind the placement of the stone and whether it will be in a wet area. Always opt for anti-slip finishes for your bathroom and tub or shower floors.
7. Minimalist and Functional Design
Less is more, and a simple, minimal bathroom can bring clarity to your day. Declutter spaces with high-capacity storage or hidden shelves. Minimize extra furniture in an open floor plan that prioritizes function. Opt for uniform, neutral or cool colors, along with stone, glass and limited patterns, to create a meditative, modern atmosphere.
8. Statement Tiles and Textures
Make a splash with bright and bold colors and textures, from the tiles to linens and artwork. Complementary colors (opposites on the color wheel) bring consistency to your space, but don’t be afraid to mix it up. Intentional variety can also be a form of consistency.
Penny tiles, mosaics and hexagon tiles introduce patterns that elevate your space. Terrazzo tiles with speckles of color make a room stand out, while black and white adds a classic yet dramatic flair.
9. Bold Patterns
Incorporate patterns with your wallpaper, tiling and linens. The backsplash around the countertops is a great place to add an accent, while patterns on the walls and the shower tile make more of a statement. Herringbone, mosaic and hex patterns all offer a modern look. Create contrast by combining bold patterns and colors with more minimalistic fixture designs and furniture.
10. Wellness and Health-Centric Features
Along with the design of the bathroom, consider features that will improve your health and wellness. Restore your calm with natural light from a skylight and add indoor plants to increase oxygen in the air and de-stress.
Seniors looking to age comfortably at home will find comfort in a walk-in bath or shower that prioritizes safety and convenience. Transform your bath time with hydrotherapy massage jets, aromatherapy, anti-slip surfaces, safety grab bars and heated seats.
For more bathroom design and safe bathing tips, visit the Safe Step blog.
