The 5 Hottest Kitchen Benchtop Trends of 2025?
Top 5 Hottest Kitchen Benchtop Trends of 2025, Predicted.
The Australia stone sector has gone through more changes in the last twelve months, than the last twelve years.
Designers, DIY'ers and builders alike are looking to step outside the box in 2025 and open the doors to new design ideas and kitchen benchtop materials.
Gone are the days of the standard, high crystalline silica slabs and now come into play more sustainable, safer and durable surface options.
1. Bigger and Bolder Kitchen Benchtop Designs.
Once upon a time, Calacatta and Carrara's ruled most kitchen benchtop designs in Australia. You know the ones, whether they were natural marbles or the original Calacatta designs that looked as fake as the material they were made from.
They captured your attention...
Now designers are stepping outside the boundaries of traditional natural stone look designs and crossing into a world where better means bolder.
Done tastefully, bolder benchtop design choices can truly make your kitchen the hero of the home. Create a continuous look with both benchtop and splashback designs flowing into one another, to create instant wow factor with that vertical surface appeal the moment someone enters your kitchen.
Bigger, Bolder, Better: Featured - Essential Gold
2. Warm, Earthy Kitchen Benchtop Tones.
This is something we have already seen a lot of in 2024. Similar to our Essential Gold above, a lot more people than you might think are loving these golden, brown and earth benchtop tones to pair with already warm surroundings.
Tassy oak flooring and warm cabinet selections create a certain peace in the home, one that feels like a warm hug, without medicinal looking white 2pak shaker cabinets and standard white benchtops with a bullnose edge.
It's important not to overdo it, but when done right creates a beautiful calm and inviting space that anyone would want to be invited into.
Featured: Marvel Gold
3. Making Your Splashback the Hero
Something again we saw a lot of in 2024, but we feel will be even more prominent in 2025. Once upon a time the island bench was the focal point of the kitchen space, now it's the splashback.
Think about it, it's the first thing your guests see when they walk into your kitchen, so why not make it something to talk about?
From book matched designs, to complementing your benchtops and backbenches, keep the continuous theme by running your benchtop design up the splashback and bringing the whole space together.
4. More Sustainable Kitchen Benchtop Designs
Sustainability isn't just a buzz word, it's vital. Vital that we're evolving to do our part for the environment by using materials that are recycled, natural and produced in a sustainable.
Now, more than ever, people are conscious about the materials they use in their homes. No more toxic chemicals, binders or resins. Now it's about natural, sustainable and safe kitchen benchtop surfaces without any loss of quality.
Our entire Techlam collection is sourced from the finest European quarries, with strict quality control measures that not only ensure quality, but ethical production and sourcing practices that are sustainable as well.
Our Techlam Range is produced with:
- Up to 95% recycled materials
- 100% natural ingredients
- Produced using 100% recycled water
- 100% renewable energy since 2017
- Ethical material sourcing from around Europe
- Greenguard certification
- Zero waste
5. Using More Naturally Sourced Materials
If the last twelve months have taught us anything about the state of the kitchen benchtop industry in Australia, it's that change is a good thing.
Now, builders, designers and architects are back to sourcing natural materials for their projects, over new engineered stone designs that lack historical evidence to tell us how well they will performed over the next 12-18 months.
Why does that make our Techlam Product so incredible for those wanting more natural kitchen benchtop materials?
Because Techlam is natural. It's a 100% natural stone base, produced on an advanced production line that makes it highly resistant to stain, scratches, heat and even outdoor sunlight and weather.
It's the perfect combination of stone design and functionality, where the only limits are your imagination.
Featured: Kalos Bianco Outdoor Wall Lining