What’s New in Flooring for 2025
See wood and stone looks in hardwood, wood laminate, vinyl plank and porcelain floor collections at recent trade shows
Smooth and natural flooring in both wood and stone looks continued to dominate the tile and plank collections seen at recent surface materials and building trade shows in Las Vegas. There’s movement away from whitewashed gray and rustic wood flooring, although those choices are still available. And resilient flooring continues to improve, with designers of luxury vinyl tile capturing the look of real hardwood’s beauty and imperfections, adding character that’s affordable and easy to maintain.
“This season, resilient flooring trends are focusing on a more balanced and refined aesthetic,” says Joyce Van Waeleghem, senior director of design, resilient flooring for Mohawk. “The heavily rustic designs and cool-toned wood looks that were once popular are being replaced by neo-rustic styles that combine rustic warmth with a cleaner, more sophisticated finish. Lighter natural wood tones and warmer hues are taking the spotlight, with oak and walnut textures still leading the way.
“On the stone-look side, high-contrast slates and stones are losing favor, while subtle, earthy options like sandstones and travertines are becoming more popular,” Van Waeleghem says. “Classic white marble continues to be a dominant choice.”
“This season, resilient flooring trends are focusing on a more balanced and refined aesthetic,” says Joyce Van Waeleghem, senior director of design, resilient flooring for Mohawk. “The heavily rustic designs and cool-toned wood looks that were once popular are being replaced by neo-rustic styles that combine rustic warmth with a cleaner, more sophisticated finish. Lighter natural wood tones and warmer hues are taking the spotlight, with oak and walnut textures still leading the way.
“On the stone-look side, high-contrast slates and stones are losing favor, while subtle, earthy options like sandstones and travertines are becoming more popular,” Van Waeleghem says. “Classic white marble continues to be a dominant choice.”
This close view of Cured Hickory from CALI’s new Varietals collection of hardwood planks shows the natural color and grain of the unstained wood.
CALI’s new Varietals hardwood planks are 7½ inches wide and are available in random lengths up to 75 inches. Shown here is Natural Hickory.
Hardwood Laminate
Surfwood is a new midtone color from CALI flooring, one of 11 shades in its Pacifica wood laminate collection. The matte-finish flooring mimics oak hardwood, and the company says the laminate is waterproof, has an AC4 rating, is sound-absorbent and is easy to clean. AC ratings are given to laminate flooring to measure durability, with A6 flooring able to withstand the heaviest use.
Surfwood is a new midtone color from CALI flooring, one of 11 shades in its Pacifica wood laminate collection. The matte-finish flooring mimics oak hardwood, and the company says the laminate is waterproof, has an AC4 rating, is sound-absorbent and is easy to clean. AC ratings are given to laminate flooring to measure durability, with A6 flooring able to withstand the heaviest use.
Luxury Vinyl Tile and Planks
Mohawk’s new SolidTech R line of luxury vinyl planks is waterproof, PVC-free and made with recycled single-use plastic and a natural stone core. Mohawk says every square foot contains the equivalent of 20 plastic water bottles, and the company works with Plastic Bank, a global organization that aims to keep plastic out of landfills and oceans. SolidTech R Plus and Select each offer six colors that look like oak and have subtle, earthy tones.
SolidTech R Select planks are 7½ inches wide and measure a standard 48 inches long. SolidTech R Select’s Ashland Crest style in the color Ansley is seen here.
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Mohawk’s new SolidTech R line of luxury vinyl planks is waterproof, PVC-free and made with recycled single-use plastic and a natural stone core. Mohawk says every square foot contains the equivalent of 20 plastic water bottles, and the company works with Plastic Bank, a global organization that aims to keep plastic out of landfills and oceans. SolidTech R Plus and Select each offer six colors that look like oak and have subtle, earthy tones.
SolidTech R Select planks are 7½ inches wide and measure a standard 48 inches long. SolidTech R Select’s Ashland Crest style in the color Ansley is seen here.
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“The appeal of SolidTech R goes beyond environmental benefits; it’s built for long-term performance,” Mohawk’s Van Waeleghem says. “With its innovative RealPlank technology, SolidTech R offers a highly natural wood look while also minimizing pattern repeats for a more authentic aesthetic.
“As sustainability continues to influence flooring choices, products like SolidTech R offer consumers the dual benefit of environmental responsibility and high-end functionality, making them a growing trend in the market,” she says.
Mohawk’s new SolidTech R Select line of luxury vinyl planks includes the Fern color, pictured, in the Ashland Crest style.
“As sustainability continues to influence flooring choices, products like SolidTech R offer consumers the dual benefit of environmental responsibility and high-end functionality, making them a growing trend in the market,” she says.
Mohawk’s new SolidTech R Select line of luxury vinyl planks includes the Fern color, pictured, in the Ashland Crest style.
Rosemary, above, is one of six colors in Mohawk’s new SolidTech R Plus Oxford Manor collection. The waterproof luxury vinyl planks are 7½ inches wide and 60 inches long.
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Russet Character Oak is a new color in Karndean’s Knight Tile collection of wood- and stone-look luxury vinyl tile. The planks are available in glue-down or rigid-core designs and with a 12-mil wear layer. The company says the planks were inspired by an old wind-powered sawmill in Amsterdam. The designers use a smoking technique to highlight knots and grain.
A word about wear layers: The clear outer surface of a luxury vinyl plank or tile wears away under foot traffic and furniture, so the thickness of that layer is an important consideration. The thickness is measured in mils, with 1 mil equal to one-thousandth of an inch. (About 40 mils equals 1 millimeter.) The thicker the wear layer, the more durable and long-lasting the tile or plank. Most residential vinyl wear layers range from 8 to 12 mils. Experts recommend at least a 20-mil-thick wear layer for heavily used areas.
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A word about wear layers: The clear outer surface of a luxury vinyl plank or tile wears away under foot traffic and furniture, so the thickness of that layer is an important consideration. The thickness is measured in mils, with 1 mil equal to one-thousandth of an inch. (About 40 mils equals 1 millimeter.) The thicker the wear layer, the more durable and long-lasting the tile or plank. Most residential vinyl wear layers range from 8 to 12 mils. Experts recommend at least a 20-mil-thick wear layer for heavily used areas.
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The wood grain effect is evident in this new color called River Hickory in Karndean’s Korlok Select collection of luxury vinyl flooring. The collection includes 9-by-56-inch planks that imitate wood, as well as 18-by-24-inch stone-look tiles.
Karndean has a new medium brown shade coming this summer called Vermeer Oak, part of its Opus collection of luxury vinyl planks.
The look of marble can make a statement in vinyl floor tiles. Here, Karndean’s Sillano Marble, one of 11 new designs in its Opus collection, becomes a focal point in a hallway.
The company says it’s named for the color of an Italian marble that resembles the sediment from a lake in the province of Lucca. The collection also has wood, stone and patterned looks in glue-down luxury vinyl tile, with a beefy 20-mil wear layer.
The company says it’s named for the color of an Italian marble that resembles the sediment from a lake in the province of Lucca. The collection also has wood, stone and patterned looks in glue-down luxury vinyl tile, with a beefy 20-mil wear layer.
Sunbaked Escape is one of eight colors in CALI’s new Trestles collection of luxury vinyl planks, which measure 48 inches long and 7¼ inches wide. CALI considers Trestles an entry-level option in its WPC (wood plastic core) luxury vinyl lineup.
Here’s CALI’s new Trestles luxury vinyl in the sandy, slightly rustic Timber Beach shade. The collection is named for a famous wooden railroad bridge and surfing spot in Southern California.
This sunny blond floor is a new color called Seas the Day in CALI’s existing Laguna collection of WPC luxury vinyl planks, with 12 colors now in the collection. The extra-large planks are 8 inches wide, 54¾ inches long and 10 millimeters thick, with a 20-mil wear layer.
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Linoleum
Forbo’s Marmoleum is an eco-friendly flooring type, a linoleum made of 98% natural raw materials, including linseed oil, wood flour, limestone, resin and jute. Its new Solid collection has four texture groups: Cocoa, Walton, Concrete and Piano, each with numerous colors. Cocoa incorporates upcycled cocoa husks in its flooring material and has 16 colors with a spotted mineral look, from White Chocolate to Matcha to Salted Caramel, shown here.
Forbo’s Marmoleum is an eco-friendly flooring type, a linoleum made of 98% natural raw materials, including linseed oil, wood flour, limestone, resin and jute. Its new Solid collection has four texture groups: Cocoa, Walton, Concrete and Piano, each with numerous colors. Cocoa incorporates upcycled cocoa husks in its flooring material and has 16 colors with a spotted mineral look, from White Chocolate to Matcha to Salted Caramel, shown here.
Here’s something from the new Marmoleum Solid collection, in the Concrete texture group, which has the look of a modern concrete floor and includes 30 colors in soft and muted tones. Shown here is Slate, one of four neutral colors in the collection.
Porcelain Tile
Porcelain that mimics marble, travertine, concrete and other stone continues to be a common-sense choice for ease of maintenance and ever-improving realistic visuals that mimic the real thing.
“Customers are leaning heavily toward ivory and beige warm tones in natural stone-look porcelain tiles,” Arizona Tile’s Ariana Schweymaier says. “They are also loving a textured look for floors that look like they have lots of natural surface texture but have a smoother finish.”
Travertine-look. One of those lighter-tone, natural stone looks is Arizona Tile’s Invictus Vein Cut porcelain tile, which resembles vein-cut travertine. It’s shown here in Pearl, measuring 24-by-48 inches. It’s also available in an anti-slip finish for outdoors. It can coordinate with the collection’s 4-inch hex, 2-inch square and large chevron mosaic wall tiles and comes in three additional colors: beige, ivory and white.
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Porcelain that mimics marble, travertine, concrete and other stone continues to be a common-sense choice for ease of maintenance and ever-improving realistic visuals that mimic the real thing.
“Customers are leaning heavily toward ivory and beige warm tones in natural stone-look porcelain tiles,” Arizona Tile’s Ariana Schweymaier says. “They are also loving a textured look for floors that look like they have lots of natural surface texture but have a smoother finish.”
Travertine-look. One of those lighter-tone, natural stone looks is Arizona Tile’s Invictus Vein Cut porcelain tile, which resembles vein-cut travertine. It’s shown here in Pearl, measuring 24-by-48 inches. It’s also available in an anti-slip finish for outdoors. It can coordinate with the collection’s 4-inch hex, 2-inch square and large chevron mosaic wall tiles and comes in three additional colors: beige, ivory and white.
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Invictus Cross Cut porcelain from Arizona Tile is designed to resemble crosscut travertine, shown here in 24-by-48-inch Beige. Crosscut refers to when the stone is cut against, or perpendicular, to the vein, as opposed to vein-cut, which is cut with the vein. The collection also includes coordinating 2-inch-square wall tiles. Similar to the vein-cut version, it comes in a polished, matte or anti-slip finish.
American Olean’s Reservorio comes in three serene shades of travertine-look porcelain, shown here in Mineral, in a large-format 24-by-48-inch size for the floor, and a coordinating 12-by-24-inch fluted ceramic wall tile.
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Limestone-look. Arizona Tile’s Intense series porcelain resembles sedimentary limestone, mimicking the granules of fossils typical of the stone. It’s available in several sizes for flooring, and the 24-by-48-inch tile has a trait texture that resembles chiseled stone, suitable for walls and flooring. The collection also includes 2-inch-square mosaics. It comes in four neutral colors, including Toffee, shown here.
Marble-look. Supersizing is still a big trend in flooring, for both planks and tiles, and Daltile’s Marble Attache collection’s new large-format 32-inch-square tile reflects that trend. The floor here is marble-look Calacatta, one of five colors in the collection. There are four smaller sizes of floor tile, as well as corresponding wall mosaics.
Here’s a closer look at Daltile’s Marble Attache 32-by-32-inch porcelain tile, in Pearl Arabesque.
Golden Angelite is a new luxuriously veined marble-look option in Daltile’s XL Panoramic Porcelain Surfaces line. Suitable for flooring, the large-format 64-by-127-inch slabs are easier to maintain than real stone and have fewer grout lines than smaller tiles, for a more seamless appearance. They come in both glossy and matte finishes.
Elestial is part of the Elemental collection in Daltile’s line of extra-large Panoramic Porcelain slabs. The company says it replicates rare Turkish Silver Root marble. Suitable for use on walls and countertops, it also makes a stunning flooring surface.
Patterned porcelain tile remains a fun way to make a flooring statement, with more Art Deco geometric patterns showing up these days than the encaustic, Moroccan-style tiles of recent years. Daltile’s Sovran collection has eight Deco-inspired designs in its selection of marble-look porcelain tiles, including Triangle, shown here.
Daltile’s Sovran porcelain tile in the Geometric pattern brings drama to an entry floor. The marble-mimicking tile measures 24 by 48 inches.
Daltile’s Sovran marble-look porcelain tile in Capri is used on this floor. The collection’s Deco pattern called Petal is on the wall.
Stone-look varieties. Emser Tile’s new Expanse Stone-Inspired collection of large-format porcelain includes Palissandro Frost, a vibrant choice for flooring, which makes an even more dramatic statement when also used on the wall. The collection has seven stone-look styles.
Emser’s Kathy Greene, director of brand strategy and communications, says customers are looking for functionality as well as aesthetics in flooring.
“Consumers want versatile design solutions that meet practical needs while still delivering on beauty, and spaces that are both stylish and highly functional,” she says. “As a result, the market is expanding with innovative tile options that blend cutting-edge technology with elegant design.”
Emser’s Kathy Greene, director of brand strategy and communications, says customers are looking for functionality as well as aesthetics in flooring.
“Consumers want versatile design solutions that meet practical needs while still delivering on beauty, and spaces that are both stylish and highly functional,” she says. “As a result, the market is expanding with innovative tile options that blend cutting-edge technology with elegant design.”
The Pietra Nero color from Emser’s Expanse Stone-Inspired collection is also eye-catching when used on both floor and wall. The collection includes eight sizes of tile, up to a whopping 64 by 127 inches.
“Large-format flooring continues to be popular, with the addition of creating a seamless floor-to-ceiling [look], like the natural stone-inspired designs from Expanse,” Greene says.
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“Large-format flooring continues to be popular, with the addition of creating a seamless floor-to-ceiling [look], like the natural stone-inspired designs from Expanse,” Greene says.
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Concrete-look. If you like the look of concrete, you might want to consider this 15-by-30-inch porcelain version from American Olean’s Urban Essence. This is Pumice, one of four shades in the collection, which also includes coordinating 1-by-6-inch wall mosaics.
Wood-look. Arizona Tile’s new Shen 12-by-24-inch porcelain tile that mimics the looks of stained wood is one of the textured-look floor tiles that Schweymaier says customers are seeking. The floor here is the White Shades tone, another example of the light-color trend in flooring.
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Hardwood Planks
California-based CALI’s coastal-inspired wood, luxury vinyl and laminate collections have leaned toward blond tones in recent years and that trend continues, along with new, richer hues.
A range of wood species is represented in CALI’s new Varietals hardwood collection, including ash, acacia, hickory and maple. All have a clear matte finish and are unstained, “exactly as nature intended,” the company says. Natural Maple is shown here.
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