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Your guide to open-plan kitchens: Hi January 2025 issue!

Posted on 3rd December 2024

January issue of Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms magazine

New year, new project? The first 2025 issue of Kitchens Bedrooms and Bathrooms is out now, and it’s filled to the brim with advice and inspiration for your renovation. Here is what you can expect this month…

Surprise – we’re now on TikTok! I swore blind that I would never join this app – Instagram is more than enough to fry my brain with algorithms and annoyingly addictive air-fryer how-to videos. However, I have been forced to concede defeat, and am now indeed a “TikToker” – if posting one video (then quickly deleting due to doing it “wrong”) and following work colleagues counts. And, since we’re on the topic, why don’t you give Kitchens Bedrooms & Bathrooms a follow on there?

Well, this is all down to the fact that we are kicking off 2025 by welcoming our very first social media executive to the KBB team. (A great way to make me feel like a dinosaur, despite only being in my mid-thirties.)

Project tips and inspiration

New beginnings for a new year – and all that clichéd jazz. But, what better time to start afresh, and try something different, than in January? For us, it’s welcoming new opportunities and new team members in new positions, for others it will be moving house, building a kitchen extension or finally revamping their ensuite.

If that sounds like you, then this issue (plus all following ones) is the perfect way to start your renovation journey. We predict what’s going to be big in bathroom design, from moody colours to daring marble.

Magazine feature on bathroom trends. — Keen to know what’s going to be big in bathrooms? Get your copy of the January 2025 issue in newsagents nationwide or via Readly.

And while there’s nothing new about open-plan kitchens, trends and styles always tend to slightly shift and evolve – which is why we ask the experts what open plan will look like from this year onwards.

Open-plan kitchen design with cooking, dining and seating area. — Two large islands feature double sinks and hob in this calm and connected open-plan kitchen, which includes cooking, dining and soft-seating areas. Kitchen Architecture chose Bulthaup b3 furniture in anthracite, flint and black-brown oak for the bar. Photography: Darren Chung.

There’s a big focus on surfaces this issue, too. From creative ideas for your kitchen walls and floors, to coloured stone inspiration and dark worktops.