Eight Wellness-Related Kitchen Design Trends For 2024

A kitchen remodel is one of the largest, most expensive and complex, and potentially impactful project you can undertake in your home. Done well, it can positively affect resale value when you go to sell your property, but also your health, safety, comfort and functionality in the meantime. That’s why it’s worth paying heed to what the pros say is trending. And why I always pay heed when the National Kitchen & Bath Association, a trade organization comprising 50,000 members, including designers, dealers, remodelers, installers and manufacturers, releases its annual studies. (In the interest of disclosure, I’ve been an NKBA member for close to two decades, but it’s just one of several leading associations I source for research.)

The 2024 Kitchen Trends Research Report is hot off the presses this week, and you probably won’t be surprised to learn that wellness design plays a strong role in the findings, gathered from online interviews with specifiers and manufacturers. Here are eight of the wellness-related emerging trends cited in the responses that have a tie-in to sustainability. I’m including insights from three NKBA member designers who had a chance to review the report and expound in written responses to trends described in its wellness and sustainability-related points.