Our kitchen trend predictions for 2025
2nd December 2024
We don’t really like the word ‘trend’ here at deVOL!! Rather than entering into a moment where you make rash (and often expensive) decisions, update your rooms on a whim and choose everything you need in one go, we prefer to collect and gather and think and then rethink – gradually over time you accumulate the things you need and you create a space and a kitchen that feels layered and soulful and right for you. There are always a few little things though, that we notice becoming particularly popular or ideas of how us and our customers are using and decorating our kitchens these days. So, here are some words from deVOL’s Creative Director, Helen, on where kitchens and interiors will be going in 2025…
“Visiting homes across the country for photoshoots, looking at current plans drawn up and designed by our kitchen designers from London to New York and Bath gives me a little insight into the way kitchens are going at the moment… For us at deVOL, nothing is ever groundbreakingly different, we have always designed simple, airy and clutter-free rooms. However, recently we have been seeing a few new/old ideas in the shape of less is more and big is beautiful. The first decision I have noticed is people moving the location of the original kitchen to another part of their home, it may have been a reception room, dining room or a parlour. This often means that the room is much larger than the original kitchen, has grander features such as intricate cornice, high ceilings and fancy woodwork, it most always has larger windows and probably more doors into the room.”
“These big rooms become the perfect place to have large pieces of furniture, no runs of wall cupboards and fitted units but big statement pieces. The big range cooker is often freestanding and maybe 1.5 – 2 metres long, but the biggest statement is an island or prep table that becomes the whole kitchen. It will have a sink, a dishwasher, bins, seating and storage all wrapped up in a beautifully designed piece of furniture with a marble top.”
“The kitchen has become another beautiful room, exquisitely furnished with chandeliers and the merest nod to domesticity and function, yet beneath the stylish look there actually is a perfectly designed kitchen that works, has no clutter, is easy to keep clean, is practical, but all wrapped in much more beautiful packaging than ever before. The idea that a kitchen can feel sumptuous and simple and fill a large parlour, rather than being tucked away at the back of the home with wall-to-wall cupboards is rather exciting to us as firm advocates of freestanding classic furniture.”
“Dark colours have been around for quite a while now, the dark blues and greys of a few years ago however, have been overtaken by warmer reds, deep clarets and black. These colours are more traditional than the dark blues, you would have seen them in country homes in Victorian and Georgian times and they look very at home in kitchens with large freestanding cupboards. Dark woods are now really popular for kitchen cupboards and furniture, whether it is a vintage pantry or a brand-new prep table, the warmth of woods and brick floors works so well with red and berry coloured paintwork.”
“And as a side note, dark rich woods and simple white walls is the classic look. Imagine dark shiny wooden floors, simple white walls, a sparkling chandelier and a deVOL prep table or island in richly stained wood right in the middle of the room.”
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