10 Kitchen & Bath Gems to Make Your Home Feel Bigger and More Functional

I love attending a home-focused trade show, whether it’s devoted to kitchen and bath products, finishes like tile or other decorative accents, gifts, avant garde design, or home tech. These industry events are amazing resources and provide plenty of opportunity for discovery. You can learn about a new talented maker or a company that’s doing something cool in the home space, or just spot an emerging trend in the design world.

And that brings me to the 2025 Kitchen & Bath Show (KBIS), which wrapped yesterday in Las Vegas. I searched high and low for the best kitchen and bath products in this year’s offerings. Here’s what earned Apartment Therapy’s “Best in Show” seal — and what is coming to market this year (if not available already) that you should keep your eye out for.

SMEG 18-Inch Dishwasher

Italian luxury appliance maker SMEG has redesigned its portfolio of dishwashers for 2025, making them quieter, more intuitive to load, and all-around more stylish. At KBIS, the brand showcased its small-but-mighty 18-inch dishwasher, which is one of the most compact under-counter, full-sized models on the market. Even though it’s tiny, it doesn’t skimp on form or function and would be a great addition in a tight galley kitchen.

GE Profile ENERGY STAR UltraFast Combo with Ventless Inverter Heat Pump Technology Washer/Dryer

GE changed the combo laundry game a few years back with the launch of its ventless washer/dryer, which promised to clean and dry a large load of laundry in less than 2 hours. Sleek design, no need to move your clothes from the washer to the dryer, and 4.6-cubic-feet capacity? It seemed like the design couldn’t get any better, but then came the brand’s latest model. It’s stripped down just a bit in terms of its auto-dispense detergent functionality, and only comes in this pretty white finish, but it’s also at a more accessible price point, considering you still get two appliances for the price of one. And you can put this baby anywhere, because it’s ventless.

Sherwin-Williams Scuff Tuff Interior Waterbased Enamel Paint

Scuffs and scratches don’t stand a chance against Sherwin-Williams’ Scuff Tuff Interior Waterbased Enamel Paint, which came out late last year. It’s engineered for high-traffic areas, so you don’t have to worry about kids or pets — and their things — marring your freshly painted walls.

Moen Cambium Bath Suite

Warm minimalism has taken the design world by storm, but I’ve yet to see a bathroom faucet suite encapsulate this aesthetic — that is, until Moen launched its Cambium collection, which should be out in market soon. Mixing industrial influences with a bit of nuanced softness, the Cambium pieces marry sharp, angular levers with graphic fluted bases for a contrast in texture you can both see and feel. These silhouettes are especially gorgeous in the brand’s new polished nickel/brushed nickel finish, which pairs the shiny with the flat in a single fixture.

Midea OneTouch AutoFill French Door Refrigerator

Refrigerator water dispensers are handy and all, but the Midea OneTouch AutoFill French Door Refrigerator is leaps and bounds ahead of any I’ve ever seen in terms of functionality. That’s because it’ll fill a range of cup and bottle sizes — yes, including your Stanley! — with ice, water, or ice and water with just the push of a button. That means no more wasting time, standing around waiting for your cup to fill.

KitchenAid’s Juniper Finish

If you loved KitchenAid’s Juniper stand mixer and thought to yourself, “I’d love large appliances in this shade too,” well, now you can get them. Even better, this neutral dark green, which features a kiss of blue in terms of undertone and a metallic finish, isn’t the only way to show your personality in your cook space. The brand’s latest line of appliances also come with the capacity for interchangeable hardware. That means you can choose knobs and pulls that suit your style — and change them up every season if you want to!

LG Counter-Depth MAX Refrigerator with Zero Clearance

Gain back a few precious inches of kitchen space with LG’s new Counter Depth MAX Refrigerator with Zero Clearance. The way the hinges work on these models, coupled with the slim design of the doors, you can mount your machine nearly flush to the wall … and it’ll have zero effect on how wide you can open your fridge’s French doors. Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference.

Brizo Frank Lloyd Wright Kitchen Faucet

A few years back, Brizo wowed the design world with its Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration, which spawned a stunning mixed-materials bath faucet collection. Now the partnership is back with kitchen faucets, and I can honestly say I’ve never seen a more creative use of glass and concrete when mixed with metal in a faucet application. These pieces are striking in person and truly adhere to FLW’s core principles of design.

Delta PivotPro 3-in-1 Combination Shower

People are not just one height, and yet showerheads tend to be. That’s why I thought Delta’s new PivotPro 3-in-1 Combination Shower, likely coming to market in the fall, was brilliant. Designers at Delta created the PivotPro as a 7-inch raincan showerhead that swivels a full 360 degrees to provide expanded height options for your stream of water. The unit I saw was also coupled with a hand-shower that featured Delta’s Power Clean spray, which makes easy work of grimy tiles in between showers.

TOTO S Series Bidets

If you’re in the bidet game, you’ve heard of TOTO. And now the Japanese market leader has made its C series core bidets even better by rebranding them as the S series. The designs are now tankless, which means they’re 19 percent smaller and now also require 37 percent less power to use. I’d call that a win-win for the bathroom and your wallet. Look for the series to roll out later this year.

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