The Stunning Interior Design Trend That's Here To Stay In 2025

If you're in love with natural stone slab countertops, you've got a lot of company. Home decor enthusiasts are swooning over marble, documenting long-awaited trips to stone yards to find just the right slab for one project or another. As a stunning interior design trend, marble is here to stay for 2025. That's the good news. The great news? Like the twisting veined patterns in many iconic marble surfaces, there are a few surprise twists coming in the next year.

When shopping for natural stone countertops or accents (like a stone side table), do you prefer plain, solid colors or lots of texture and pizzazz? Understated white varieties of marble will always reflect quiet luxury. A crisp white marble will pair well with many ideas for a classic and elegant kitchen. However, marble with bold veins, stand-out colors, and surprising textures is finding its way into curated cutting-edge designs in kitchens and bathrooms. 2025 will see more countertops, backsplashes, shower walls, bathroom floors, and shelving benefit from these dramatic stone choices.

Marble is being fabricated for accent walls, sometimes covering every wall of a space not just in kitchens and bathrooms but offices, living rooms, and dining rooms. The classic marble floor (and marble-look flooring) is being revived in exciting patterns and mosaics, spilling outside bathrooms into adjoining living spaces, but also from other areas of the home. The same is happening with stairs, with aspirational high-end projects featuring motion-activated lights that highlight the stonework. There are fireplaces with marble surrounds or slabs running floor-to-ceiling, and sometimes ornately carved. Doorways are even being accented with marble arches.

Marble is also trending in furniture and accents. The mad-for-marble movement is especially sought-after in tables. Many examples are constructed solely of marble; others incorporate materials such as chrome. Luxury designers are flaunting low-to-the-floor coffee tables with trendy marble bun feet, sculptural marble bases with glass tops, expansive dining tables, custom-made kitchen tables, and unusual marble block nightstands with seamless inset drawers. Vintage marble and marble-look tables are also back. As for accents, the trend for marbled ceramic dishware is in full bloom at retailers like CB2 and Crate and Barrel, while homebodies areplacing everything from marble coasters to marble trays to marble candle holders on tabletops to decorate nooks in a room.

For a delicate surface that requires care, marble is expensive. On the high end, it can cost $250 or more a square foot. Those who have made their own furniture will approach stone dealers and find remnant marble pieces at big discounts. Still, decorators and DIYers want the look, even if they have to cheat. Porcelain is a much more affordable alternative to marble, designers say, when it is fabricated in slabs. On a smaller scale, there are projects out there for turning marble-looking porcelain tiles into tables and other objects. While observers might say they can tell the difference, porcelain can provide the wild veined look of marble in dramatic sizes while resisting chips, stains, and cracks. Porcelain is, in fact, a marble countertop look-alike the stars of "Married to Real Estate" recommend when on a budget.

At the same time, those who've gotten into the marble craze are scouring thrift shops for old slabs, sometimes scoring finds for less than it costs for a cocktail at the airport. The marble is refurbished or repurposed and reimagined into furniture. And then, there are many hacks out there for recreating the look of marble with very low-budget materials. Marble spray paint is one product that makes DIYing a faux marble countertop so easy, or you can use contact paper to fashion stunning faux marble bookends in a simple TikTok wood block project.