What We’re Seeing in Atlanta Kitchen Remodels in 2025

After completing 38 Metro Atlanta kitchen remodels in 2024, here are the design and material choices we’re seeing show up over and over.

Less white, more warmth.

The all-white kitchen had a great run from 2014 through about 2022. We’re still building beautiful all-white kitchens, but the dominant trend in 2025 is warmer: walnut and oak cabinetry in natural finishes, painted lower cabinets in deep greens and blues paired with natural wood uppers, brass and unlacquered hardware, and warmer-undertone counters.

Larger appliance packages, fewer of them.

Two trends collapsing into one: fewer but bigger appliances. We’re seeing 48-inch ranges replace cooktop-plus-wall-oven combinations. Single 36-inch column refrigerators with separate column freezers. Drawer microwaves replacing over-range microwaves entirely. The footprint shrinks, the capability grows.

Real prep sinks are back.

A second sink near the prep area was a luxury feature five years ago. In 2025 it’s a practical default in any kitchen above ~14 ft of counter run, especially when paired with an island. The plumbing cost is modest; the daily quality-of-life improvement is significant.

Quartz still dominates, but quartzite is gaining.

Engineered quartz remains the most-specified counter material on our projects (~62% of 2024 kitchens). But we’ve seen a noticeable shift toward natural quartzite — particularly Taj Mahal, Mont Blanc, and Cristallo — for clients who want a natural-stone look without the maintenance penalty of marble.

Integrated lighting is finally everyone’s default.

Under-cabinet LED used to be an upgrade. Now it’s in essentially every project. Toe-kick lighting and integrated upper-cabinet uplighting are the upgrades we’re specifying on roughly half of our 2025 kitchens.

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