Great bathroom design is all about balancing practicality with luxury. Think of the space in terms of your lifestyle needs. It should provide an indulgent and tranquil retreat for relaxation while simultaneously streamlining your busy morning routine.
Bathroom design trends for 2025
So what’s trending for bathroom design in 2025? At the end of last year, we saw a wave of new bathroom décor ideas unveiled at the design trade shows. These have quickly moved from the exhibition stands and onto the high street and even into some of our latest show homes.
Our interior designer Alysha Alli attended Decorex at Olympia as part London Design Week at the end of last year. Four key trends to emerge from the show were:
An artisan narrative
Where traditional crafts are celebrated along with the process of handmaking items.
Alysha said: “We saw exhibits of beautiful basketry, which is the perfect trend to bring into bathrooms as handcrafted wash baskets and woven storage can elevate your bathroom’s design and keep cosmetics organised. Natural wood with imperfect carved finishes can also look beautiful in both practical pieces like bath trays or accessories like vases with fresh greenery. These are very tactile and sensory additions that can create the same mood of a natural or outdoor spa.”
Colour optimism
When it comes to bathroom colour ideas and theories, using tones that boost your mood can really bring a sense of joy to one of the smaller rooms in your home. Alysha explained: “In bathrooms, en-suites and cloakrooms you can allow yourself to be a little more experimental with colour, as it is quickly and easily repainted. However, colour isn’t just for your walls. Giving focus to smaller, usually overlooked items such as shelving and everyday accessories like towels can add a playful and optimistic pop of colour. Opt for dopamine enhancing tones like sage green or soft pink .” Or add depth with an inky blue in your downstairs cloakroom as featured in The Cambridge at The Glade at Woodland Vale, near Wakefield.
For more colour inspiration read our guide to 2025 interior design trends.
Geometric pattern play
Bold curved or angular print designs can be introduced into your home through fabric patterns in blinds or in artwork, which Alysha likes to include in all areas of our show homes.
She said: “Artwork can add a moment of reflection in the home and elevate your décor even if your backdrop is neutral. It works well in areas visited by guests as well as family members such as downstairs cloakrooms, as it’s a subtle statement that every room has been considered.”
Inspired illumination
The bathroom lighting ideas you opt for are important for balancing practicality and relaxation. Alysha added: “Lighting can inspire & excite and the trends for 2025 are for industrial forms, innovative materials and otherworldly designs. Considering how the space is used is also important. I love to illuminate behind round mirrors in our show home bathrooms, creating a cosmic style halo effect while providing the ideal bathroom lighting for getting ready.”
Read on for more lighting trends for 2025.
Bathroom design ideas
There are many modern bathroom design ideas to consider when enhancing your new home. A pristine white bathroom suite from Ideal Standard sets the tone in all our Heritage Collection homes. We offer a choice of Connect Air Arc or Connect Air Cube sanitaryware styles, which provides a high specification backdrop for customers to personalise the room with tiles, flooring, storage units, lighting and mirrors.
Alysha said: “We have always worked closely with suppliers to design bespoke ranges for our homes, helping Redrow stand out from the competition. Just last year, we worked with the team at long-standing suppliers Roper Rhodes to design a new range of ‘Aria’ units, exclusive to Redrow, for our bathrooms.
“We’ve created our exclusive range in tonal matte neutrals, with curved lines and hidden internal LED lighting. We’ve also worked with Roper Rhodes on a new range of mirrors, with curved lines, integrated tech and black trims.”
“When designing new ranges for our specification options, we always ensure these fit beautifully with the choices in other rooms. For example in bedrooms, the colours and finishes of our wardrobes are curated to sit alongside the handle and mirror options. Our freestanding Gainsborough bedroom furniture range from Goodings was designed bespoke and is again exclusive to Redrow. These pieces then inform the specification choices in adjoining en-suites, which is particularly important in our Lifestyle homes, where every luxurious bedroom benefits from its own en-suite.”
As reflected in our new range of mirrors, black accents continue to lead the bathroom trends into 2025, working well with both bold and neutral backdrops. Aside from mirror trims, our interior design team like to add dark wenge wood trays and luxurious black toiletries to create an elegant show home finish.
Alysha added: “Black elements create drama against a crisp white suite, adding luxury and intrigue, especially when paired with metallics. We also like to create an ambiance of wellness in our bathrooms, pairing more luxe pieces with lots of natural greenery and organic textures.”
Bathroom tile ideas
In every Redrow home, tiling options have been carefully curated in partnership with a range of trusted suppliers including Johnsons and Porcelanosa. Homeowners can choose from tiling to splashbacks or upgrade to half height or full height tiling throughout, which reflects the style of a boutique hotel bathroom.
Staying ahead of the design curve, Alysha and her team have been working hard to ensure our latest tile range, designed alongside Johnsons, delivers on the 2025 bathroom tiling trends . She said: “We’ve worked with Johnsons to design a new tile range from scratch. This includes a variety of different finishes, which took several months to perfect, including textured, marbled and subtle shimmer effect finishes.”
Bathroom flooring ideas
In many of our show homes, we like to take the same finish on the wall tiles onto the floor, but we also offer customers a range of upgrade choices to create the show home look in their own property. Ceramic floor tiles are available in a choice of finishes, including stone, parquet or plank effect in most property types, while exceptional quality vinyl options from Amtico are available in wood effect and parquet designs.
Alysha said: “It’s important to invest in high quality flooring in your bathroom as water and high footfall in these rooms can otherwise lead to wear and tear. Our superior ceramic tile and vinyl options will stand the test of time both in terms of style and durability. In show home bathrooms I like to mirror the finish of the tiling on the walls with oversized square floor tiles. In downstairs cloakrooms you can create a streamlined look by continuing the flooring from your hallway into the cloaks.”
For more on streamlined style, read our advice for open plan styling for new homes.
All heating and hot water in our gas-free Eco Electric range, available on all upcoming developments, is provided by air source heat pumps. This innovative technology uses the heat from the air outside to provide a low carbon alternative to gas heating. For more on how we bring heat and hot water to your homes read about how we’re using air source heat pumps.
