Kitchen and Bathroom Renovation Trends in Montreal for 2025

Trend roundups are everywhere. Most of them read the same regardless of whether the author is in Montreal, Vancouver, or London. This one is different — it reflects what we are actually seeing in kitchen and bathroom renovation projects across Montreal, Laval, South Shore, and the West Island right now.

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Some of what is showing up in Montreal projects in 2025 aligns with broader North American design trends. Some of it is specific to the Montreal market — its housing stock, its climate, its particular mix of older properties and new construction. Here is what is actually moving.

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Warm Wood Tones Are Back — and They Are Different This Time

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After more than a decade of white, grey, and cool-toned kitchens dominating Montreal renovation projects, warm wood is returning in a significant way. But the wood kitchens being built in 2025 bear no resemblance to the golden oak and honey maple of the 1990s that drove homeowners away from wood cabinetry in the first place. Contemporary wood kitchens are using white oak, pale walnut, and light maple in matte or satin finishes with clean slab door profiles — warm and natural without any of the dated associations. The most popular combination we are seeing is white oak lower cabinets with a white or warm linen upper, paired with a soft white quartz or quartzite countertop.

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Large-Format Tile Is Now the Standard, Not the Upgrade

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The shift to large-format tile in Montreal bathrooms has been underway for several years, but in 2025 it has crossed a threshold — it is now the baseline expectation rather than a premium upgrade. 24x24 and 24x48 porcelain on bathroom floors and shower walls is what most clients come in asking for, and the reasons are practical as well as aesthetic: fewer grout lines mean easier cleaning, a less visually fragmented surface, and a more contemporary result. We are also seeing large-format porcelain used increasingly on kitchen floors, particularly in open-plan spaces where a continuous material running from the kitchen through to the living area reads as a single cohesive surface.

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Integrated and Handleless Cabinetry

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Push-to-open mechanisms and integrated grip profiles are replacing traditional hardware on upper cabinets in a growing number of Montreal kitchens. The appeal is a cleaner, more seamless look on the upper run, often combined with a different hardware approach on the lower cabinets or island where the tactile experience of a handle matters more. This is not a trend that works in every kitchen — it suits contemporary profiles and clean-lined spaces more than it suits transitional or traditional designs — but it is increasingly requested by clients who have seen it executed well and want the same result.

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Bathroom Niches and Built-In Storage

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The era of shampoo bottles lined up on a shower ledge is largely over in renovation projects at the mid-to-high end of the market. Shower niches — recessed into the wall and tiled to match the surrounding surface — are being included in virtually every custom shower we build. More ambitious clients are also adding built-in storage to vanity walls: recessed medicine cabinets with integrated lighting, floating shelving in matching tile, and custom millwork storage towers that give the bathroom the built-out feel of a piece of furniture rather than a functional room with shelves added as an afterthought.

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Matte Black Hardware Is Plateauing, Warm Metals Are Rising

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Matte black dominated kitchen and bathroom hardware specifications in Montreal for most of the past five years. It is still a strong choice and still looks sharp in the right context, but it has peaked as a dominant trend. Brushed gold, satin brass, and unlacquered brass are gaining ground — particularly in bathrooms and on kitchen islands where the hardware is more of a feature. The appeal of warm metals is their compatibility with the resurgence of warm wood tones and natural stone: they reinforce a palette that reads as natural and considered rather than industrial and cool.

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Quartz Still Dominates Kitchen Countertops, but Natural Stone Is Growing

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Quartz remains the most-specified countertop material in Montreal kitchens and shows no sign of losing that position. Its practical advantages — non-porous, no sealing required, consistent availability — are too significant in a working kitchen environment to be displaced by aesthetics alone. However, natural stone is growing steadily at the higher end of the market, particularly quartzite, which offers the look and movement of natural stone with considerably better durability than marble. Clients who previously would have dismissed marble as too high-maintenance are finding quartzite an appealing middle ground.

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Ready to start planning your project? Contact FCD Kitchen & Bath for a free consultation. We serve homeowners across Montreal, Laval, South Shore, North Shore, and West Island.

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