Photography: Martina Gemmola / Interior design & styling: Amy Spargo, Maine House Interiors
As a space, we demand a lot from our kitchens – it’s not only where we cook but also where we eat, drink, relax and entertain. The ever-evolving nature of the kitchen is also why it’s often the first room to be updated during a renovation, and the room we often pin our biggest design dreams on.
In 2025, there’s a new wave of kitchen trends inspiring us. From new hardware to statement stone, these are the five biggest kitchen trends taking over the hearts of our homes.
The biggest kitchen trends of 2025
1. Matching splashbacks and benchtops
One of the most coveted kitchen trends of 2025 is matching splashbacks and benchtops. This sophisticated kitchen design trend features your benchtop material extending onto your splashback, creating a natural sense of cohesion and flow throughout the space. Right now, stone is the favourite material for the matching splashback and benchtop trend, but there’s nothing stopping you from using a different material of your choice. With a resistance to high temperatures, assured longevity and an easy-to-clean finish, products like Neolith won’t absorb liquids or residues, so your kitchen will remain looking as fresh as the day you installed it. For an even more elevated look, extending the splashback up to full ceiling height gives a great impact and highlights more of the materials characteristics.
2. Aged hardware
In 2025, we are finally bidding goodbye to high-shine hardware and embracing the more weathered look of aged metals, including antique brass, aged copper and bronze. While perfectly suiting country and farmhouse kitchens, these aged hardware finishes can also help balance more modern kitchen designs by bringing a sense of patina and character into the space.
Unlike high-shine hardware, aged brass, bronze and copper all continue to develop their look over time, making them a classic choice.
3. Butter yellow
The first half of 2025 has us all falling head over heels for butter yellow. It all started when KitchenAid named the dreamy shade their 2025 Colour Of The Year and gained traction as we all saw the Bridget Jones’ kitchen in Mad About The Boy swathed in the warming hue. The joyful colour doesn’t seem to be going anywhere yet, with plenty of enviable butter yellow cabinetry popping up over our Instagram and Pinterest feeds, and even Martha Stewart’s own farmhouse kitchen sporting the shade.
4. Statement lighting
In 2025, we’re seeing statement lighting fixtures endure in the kitchen designscape. Designer Amy Spargo’s Mornington Peninsula home is a brilliant example of this trend, with two show-stopping antique-style pendant lights taking pride of place in the character-filled kitchen. We also saw The Block stars, Alisa and Lysandra, embrace dramatically oversized gold lantern-style pendant lights in their incredible renovation of a modern farmhouse style home.
5. Personal decor
The personalisation of kitchen decor is trending in 2025, with artwork, kitchen lamps and other sweet decorative touches finding their way back into the space. This trend is a nostalgic call back to the warm and welcoming kitchens of the 80s and 90s (particularly those in Nancy Meyers movies) in a move away from the sleeker designs that have dominated the kitchen design scene in recent years.
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