The 9 Biggest and Best Kitchen Trends Now, According to Interior Design Pros

Interior designers share the latest kitchen styles—from exposed beams to ‘secret’ pantry doors and granite countertops (yes, they’re back!). Plus the trends that may be dating the most important room in your house.

Text by Catherine Romano

The steady drift away from lab-like kitchens continues, and the pendulum has swung toward decidedly organic colors. So concur many of the hundreds of pros who helped us identify today’s most in-demand kitchen-design trends. Beiges, soft browns and even dark wood, long considered dated, have crept back into vogue. “Mixed with more contemporary furniture and lighting, these finishes feel fresh and create spaces that are very intimate,” said New York designer Jennifer Weisberg.

Conclusively out: a perfectionist vibe, which Tami O’Malley, a designer in St. Charles, Ill., notes “is being replaced by authentic, cozy spaces.”

Here, the nine kitchen-design styles designers deem current, and the looks that have seen their days come and go.

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