Bathroom Decor Trends to Look for in 2025
When you stay on top of evolving bathroom decor trends, you can make smart choices to refresh your space in a way that reflects contemporary style and tastes. You don’t have to be in the midst of a remodel or renovation to bring your en suite up to date. Little changes can make a major difference in whether your bathroom feels in or out of style. Explore our predictions for trending bathroom colors and decor elements you’ll want to keep an eye on. Plus, find tips for subtle ways to adjust existing elements or incorporate new ones so your bathroom stays in style.
Bathroom Decor and Design Trends
From understated elegance to thoughtful product choices to color palettes pulled from nature, these are the bathroom decor trends we can’t wait to try in the coming year.
Outdoors, In
In our opinion, taking inspiration from your environment is always in. Embrace this burgeoning trend in bathroom style by choosing decor and linens that bring the outdoors into your space. Display organic cotton towels in woven wicker or seagrass storage baskets, and choose a shower curtain printed with climbing vines or illustrated greenery. To keep your prints and patterns on trend, use a color palette of warm, earthy neutrals, deep greens, and creamy off-white hues.
Quiet Luxury
The coming year will be one of quiet luxury—a design style that speaks for itself. Quietly luxurious spaces shy away from in-your-face grandeur in favor of refinement and elegance. Incorporate subtle decorative accents, muted color palettes, and high-quality materials and fixtures to create an overall experience of luxury, rather than the appearance of it. Thick, plush bath towels in de-saturated shades, a crisp, solid-color cotton percale shower curtain, and clear, clutter-free countertops all contribute to an atmosphere that exemplifies the trend of understated indulgence.
Pattern and Textures
Subtle luxury may be creeping in, but that doesn’t mean bold patterns and textures are out of style. Eye-catching elements that create a high-design bathroom space are still popular! Bring your boldness up to date and stay on top of trends by refining your decor pieces: Choose one eye-catching pattern—perhaps printed on your wallpaper or jacquard woven into the design of your bath linens—to take center stage, then pull colors and textures from that element to incorporate throughout the space and tie everything together.
Sustainability
While sustainability is important in the fixtures and other bathroom design decisions you make, it also matters in the details, too—everything from which bath linens you buy to how you hang towels to dry. Look for bath towels and other linens made from eco-friendly materials, including GOTS-certified organic cotton, rayon made from bamboo, MicroCotton™, or long-lasting linen. One of the key principles for a sustainable bathroom is minimizing waste, so don’t ditch your current towels just to get new linens with less of an environmental impact. Instead, only make sustainable swaps when it’s time to replace worn-out products.
Oval or Bold Bathroom Mirrors
A mirror is an enduring bathroom essential, but we expect a few new takes on this classic vanity accessory in the coming year. Arched and oval bathroom mirrors have finally found their chance to shine; use your choice to add subtle contemporary style above a modern or traditional bathroom vanity. Slim frames and simple designs make a statement without overpowering other decor elements. Of course, you can always opt for something a little more dramatic: Oversized mirrors and decorative frames continue to be relevant in bathrooms and beyond.
Personalized Touches
Even if every element of your bathroom cannot be bespoke, you can still incorporate custom or personalized touches in small, meaningful ways. Add a monogram to personalize bath towels, washcloths, hand towels, and other linens; choose from several colors and font options to suit the style of your space—think a minimalist tone-on-tone block monogram for a modern bathroom or an intricate cursive design for a traditional en suite.
Bathroom Color Trends for the Coming Year
Color is a simple way to stay on top of trends without having to completely redo your entire space. Consider these trending colors for the coming year and breathe new life into your bathroom’s palette:
- Mocha Mousse: Pantone’s 2025 Color of the Year offers the combined appeal of many trending shades. Plus, this creamy brown color seamlessly complements several of the trends we’re anticipating in the coming year, from quiet luxury to natural inspirations.
- Oceanic Inspirations: Choose bath linens in deep blue, cerulean, seafoam green, or other shades you might spot in the sea and create a tranquil, spa-inspired aesthetic for your home bathroom.
- Warm and Earthy Neutrals: Consider the outdoors-in trend when planning updates for your bathroom color palette and incorporate natural neutrals inspired by the Earth—sandy tans, creamy beiges, umber hues, and stony grays with warm undertones.
- Brown-Based Colors: Incorporate rich hues with a bit of brown in the background. Consider mossy greens, deep plum or eggplant, and truffle-esque shades for new bath towels and other decorative accents.
- Creamy Whites: A white bathroom is always in style, but this year’s trends tend toward the creamier side of the spectrum. You don’t want to mix and match crisp and creamy hues, so only incorporate creamy colors if your bath is not already awash in crisp, clean white.
- Bold Accent Colors: Update your bath with a new accent color that draws the eye and complements existing decor. Pull a new, vibrant color from your patterned bath linens or opt for an eye-catching analogous or complementary hue to your shower curtain.
How to Incorporate Color Trends into Bathroom Decor
It doesn’t make sustainable or practical sense to redo your bathroom every time a new color comes onto the scene. Instead, start small, and build from there to bring your bathroom up to date. Hand towels are always on display, so swap last year’s linens with new towels in this year’s trending hues to provide an easy, instant update to the space. A new bath mat or rug adds on-trend appeal underfoot. Consider existing decor and choose trending hues that coordinate with your current linens and other design elements to avoid clashing.
When updating your bathroom, don’t rush to redo everything to match the current trends. Instead, choose elements of what’s in style and let the ones that speak to you most inform the choices you make. Whether you’re purchasing new bath linens or replacing an outdated shower curtain, make an investment in high-quality products that will last—and stay timeless—beyond the trends that inspired them. For more decorating tips and ideas, explore our Guides.