Kitchen Floor Tile Trends

 

 

The latest kitchen floor tile trends for 2025 emphasize spacious, sophisticated, and nature-inspired designs. Large-format tiles create seamless, open-plan kitchens, enhancing elegance and continuity between indoor and outdoor spaces. Stone-effect tiles bring natural textures while maintaining a sleek, versatile aesthetic that pairs well with any décor. Earthy colour palettes—featuring warm terracotta, soft greens, and turmeric tones—are rising in popularity, transforming homes into calming, inviting sanctuaries that reflect a growing desire for comfort and connection with nature. 

Explore more about these trends and get inspired by stunning photos with real-life examples.

 

Size Format trend

 

Large-format tiles are set to be a popular trend for 2025. Creating interiors that feel natural, open and spacious. Perfect for open plan interiors, large format kitchen floor tiles create sleek and sophisticated interiors. Elevate your designs by extending your interior tiles through to the outdoor area, crafting a kitchen that feels like a flowing continuation, bringing the outdoors in.

 

Stone Effect

 

Tiles mimicking the textures of stone are becoming an increasing popular feature. Providing the feeling of nature and texture to a space, while maintaining an airy and sleek feel. Stone is perfect to pair with any cabinetry and colour, offering the perfect base for your designs. 

Stone effect floor tiles are perfect for modern, industrial, and minimalist interiors, where their sleek and natural textures create a sophisticated, high-end look. They also suit rustic, farmhouse, and traditional spaces, adding warmth and character while maintaining durability and practicality.

 

 

wood effect

 

In 2025, wood effect floor tiles will be a leading trend for kitchen flooring, combining the warmth and natural beauty of real wood with the durability and practicality of tiles.

Wood effect kitchen floor tiles are a versatile choice that complements various interior styles, offering the warmth of natural wood with the durability of tiles. They are ideal for modern farmhouse interiors, adding rustic charm while maintaining elegance, and work beautifully in Scandinavian designs, where light wood tones enhance the airy, minimalist aesthetic. In industrial spaces, darker wood tones pair well with exposed brick, metal, and concrete, while traditional and classic interiors benefit from their rich, timeless appeal. Contemporary homes can achieve a sleek, high-end look with wide plank designs, and coastal or Mediterranean-inspired spaces can embrace a breezy, beachy feel with whitewashed or light oak finishes. Durable, water-resistant, and stylish, wood effect tiles are a perfect flooring solution for kitchens, bathrooms, and open-plan living areas.

 

Earth Colours

 

Kitchen colour palettes are veering towards earth tones, trying to encapsulate nature within our homes. Warm terracotta, soft greens, and turmeric tones bring the outdoors inside, creating a natural and warm feel throughout your kitchen, perfect for open-plan layouts.

 

Interior designer, Shay Holland, says "More than ever we are embracing home as a sanctuary, a trend that started in the pandemic and has only picked up momentum". This quote was first reported in a Forbes article titled "10 Interior Design Trends Going Away In 2025," published on December 19, 2024. Earth colours create a calming and inviting atmosphere, perfect for transforming our homes into our very own sanctuary.

 

 

Kitchen Wall Tile Trends

 

Textures

 

Textured finish tiles are in, with their ability to add character and intrigue to kitchen walls. Creating walls that bounce light around the room, breathing life into your kitchens. Textured wall tiles offer the ability to add a truly unique touch to a home. Mixed textures of matt tiles featuring glossy accents are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to play with light, adding dimension to a space.

 

 

Patterned

 

Patterned styles are on the return, adding intrigue and flair to kitchen walls. With varying patterns, colours and styles these tiles, add a touch of your personality into your kitchen. Geometric shapes or floral designs add an artistic touch to your functional spaces. They provide a wallpaper effect whilst being functional and suitable for kitchen messes. Patterns and shapes provide movement and life within a room and can make small rooms feel larger.  Their versatility makes them perfect for adding depth and character to any kitchen, both small and large.

 

 

Small format

 

Small-format kitchen wall tiles remain a strong trend in 2025, offering a timeless and versatile look that suits various kitchen styles. Subway (Metro) tiles and square mosaics continue to be popular choices, particularly in classic, vintage, and modern farmhouse kitchens, where they add texture and visual interest.

These tiles are especially ideal for small to medium-sised kitchens, as their compact size creates a sense of depth without overwhelming the space. In larger kitchens, they work best as an accent, such as a backsplash, to maintain balance and avoid a cluttered appearance. Their adaptability to different layouts and color schemes makes them a favorite among homeowners and designers alike.

 

Colour Drenching

 

Neutrals remain a consistent theme in homes; however, the infusion of colour is quickly coming back in. Terracotta, mustard, emerald greens, navy blues and vast arrays of shades are increasingly being introduced to kitchen designs; to bring a bold, statement finish to your space. Match your cabinetry to the colour of your wall tiles to create a cohesive and seamless design.

 

Our Purchasing Manager, Mark Cooper, highlights ‘so many more people are creating statements using deep colours like dark greens, anthracites, and navy blues to create a kitchen that feels dramatic and moody’.

 

In recent years, we have seen a huge emphasis and drive to be more connected with ourselves and our wellbeing. As a result, this has reflected in designs within our homes with warm, calming and inviting tones remaining a go to palette or many. Creams, caramels, beiges and terracottas are shades that will remain timeless and create cosy, clean atmospheres.

 

 

Kitchen Backsplash Tile Trends

 

 

Large Format

 

Large format tiles aren’t only popular for kitchen floors in 2025, with many designers transitioning from small backsplash tiles to large format statement pieces. Create high end looks in your kitchen by combining veined tiles with marble countertops, for a seamless, luxurious aesthetic. Create more playful yet sophisticated designs by using terrazzo styles, offering calming neutrals with flecks of fun colours into functional spaces.

 

Shapes

 

Backsplashes are moving away from rectangular shapes, with scales, hexagons, chevron and herringbone designs replacing traditional styles. Geometric shape kitchen backsplashes offer endless possibilities for designs to suit all aesthetics. Neutrals offer simplicity and timelessness but with a contemporary edge by using non-traditional scales and hexagons, whilst using bolder colours creates a fully striking feature for your walls. We all aim to feel calm and serene in our homes, and curved tiles are perfect to achieve this. They create a sense of flow and imitate the effect of waves, bringing a touch on nature indoors.

 

Geometric shapes aren’t the only way to create backsplashes that break away from the norm. Traditional rectangle tiles can be placed vertically to create intrigue and elongate the perception of the height of your walls, perfect for those smaller kitchens.  Herringbone layouts are proving to be an ongoing designer favourite, giving traditional styles a fresh twist.

 

Conclusion

 

Trends reflect the shifts in design styles but also the broader movements in lifestyles. It’s important to pick a kitchen tile design that you love. Keeping up to date with the trends helps you to create a kitchen that is in style and considers what kitchen designs are going to suit your needs and preferences in the future.

 

Whether completing an entire renovation or simply looking to make a small change in your kitchen, these insights provide you with all the knowledge you need. The kitchen remains the heart of the home, have fun with your designs and create a space that is beautiful. 

For further inspiration, check out our bathroom trends for 2025, to see the endless possibilities on how to transform your bathroom into a tranquil sanctuary. Visit our showroom or explore our websites and catalogues to get a closer look at our full range.