2025 Tile Trends: Colors of Sand

One of life’s many joys is basking in sun-soaked sand. That’s where this week’s tile trend takes our countdown to Coverings 2025.

Ceramic tile in sandy hues takes center stage, offering timeless neutrals from warm whites to creamy tans to buttery browns. These natural shades enhance the versatility of ceramic tile, effortlessly complementing any décor style. Whether evoking the tranquility of a beachside retreat or the vast beauty of a desert landscape, this inviting palette brings warmth and elegance to any space.

Colors of Sand: Trend Essentials

Warm tones that conjure comfort
A sense of movement, with subtle variegation and texture
Natural, biophilic themes, deepening the connection to Earth
Wide appeal that spans minimalist to maximalist

Sandy earthen colors are rich with design potential and beauty. Let’s dip our toes into spectacular spaces showcasing colors of sand!

Bespoke Backsplash

Bathroom backsplash with pearly zellige tiles featuring soft color variations, evoking the look of shifting sand dunes

This bathroom backsplash makes a lovely debut in pearly zellige tiles with color variegation reminiscent of shifting sand dunes.

Baked-in Appeal

Sandy-colored mosaic backsplash in an offset layout with tiles ranging from vanilla to dark chocolate, accented by white grout

Feast your eyes on this sandy-colored mosaic ranging from vanilla to dark chocolate. The offset layout, emphasized by white grout, is the cherry on top of this elegant backsplash.

Set in Stone

Matching tile floor and coffee table in pale greige porcelain slabs with swirling patterns

This matching tile floor and coffee table combo creates a luxurious look. Pale greige colors swirl throughout the porcelain slabs, evoking shadowy swaths of light.

Saharan Serenity

Vein-cut travertine-look wall tile paired with wood-look floor tile, creating a serene and natural atmosphere in the room

The look of vein-cut travertine distinguishes this room’s serene and natural feel, which continues in the wood-look tile floor.

Shifting Shades

Matte white and tan wall tile with a black-and-white checkerboard floor and white marble-look porcelain countertop in a warm, inviting dining space

Matte white and tan tile in this dining space offers a warm, welcoming touch. Classic black-and-white checkerboard floor tile is a vivid contrast to the wall’s soothing hues. A white marble-look porcelain countertop perfectly ties the look together.

Latte Love

Glossy vanilla zellige wall tile in a coffee nook, with soft neutral tones evoking sand for a warm and inviting atmosphere

Here’s a place where you can truly enjoy your morning coffee! Glossy vanilla zellige tile sweeps across the wall. Subdued neutrals drench the space with inviting colors of sand.

Dreamtime

Spacious sand-toned bedroom with undulated ivory wall tile featuring tan accents and large ivory floor tiles reminiscent of sugar-sand beaches

Doze off in this spacious, sand-hued bedroom. Undulated ivory tile dances across the lower wall, with gentle touches of tan adding visual interest. Extra-large tile in uniform ivory covers the floor, evocative of sugar-sand shores.

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Bathing Beauty

Open-concept bathroom with pale cream zellige wall tiles featuring subtle variegation, soft lighting, and a sleek shower ledge for a spa-like feel

This open-concept bathroom perfectly captures the “colors of sand” trend! Pale cream zellige tiles line the walls, their subtle variegation reminiscent of windswept beaches. Soft lighting and a sleek shower ledge enhance the tranquil, spa-like aura.

Back to Paradise

Desert-colored stone-look tile on the walls and floor of a minimalist bathroom, featuring a distinctive mosaic tile divider wall

Desert-colored stone-look tile unites this minimalist bathroom’s walls and floor, which surround a distinctive mosaic tile divider wall.

[Related: Bathroom Tile Trends: 2022]

Sun-Soaked Sitting

Natural sand-colored tones in the living space with wood-look floor tile in a herringbone layout, and an accent wall with a diamond motif

Natural sand colors flow across this living space. Wood-look floor tile in a herringbone layout grounds the travertine-look accent wall with a demure diamond motif.

The Discerning Traveler

Sandy-colored room with coordinating cream marble-look floor tile and stacked subway tiles

There’s something decidedly global about this sandy-colored room. Coordinating cream marble-look floor tile and stacked subway tile mingle energetically while keeping an overall relaxed ambiance.

Restaurant Romance

Light beige wood-look floor tile in a cozy high-end restaurant, complementing sandy earth tones and dark coffee-colored dining décor

Light beige wood-look floor tile draws you into this cozy high-end restaurant that serves sandy earth and dark coffee dining décor.

Light Play

Indoor-outdoor space with sand-colored travertine-look floor tile, textured 3D fluted accent walls, and stone-look porcelain brick tile in niches and the outdoor kitchen

This indoor-outdoor space embraces colors of sand from the ground up. Travertine-look floor tile teeming with textured tans meets 3D tiled (fluted) accent walls. Stone-look porcelain brick tile lines niches and the chic outdoor kitchen. One of ceramic tile’s many advantages is its durability, allowing use in all your living spaces!

One With Nature

Rooftop luxury home with luminous travertine-look tile extending to the poolside, complemented by wall tiles in sandy yellow, amber, and ochre.

This slice of paradise brings Malta’s golden shores to the city. Luminous travertine-look tile blankets the floor, inside and out, extending to the poolside to echo sand around sparkling water. We love the wall tile with bursts of sandy yellow, amber, and ochre. Although on a rooftop, this luxury home keeps a seamless connection to the Earth.

Sink Into Colors of Sand

You don’t have to globe-trot to experience the beauty colors of sand bring to your space. This trend’s range, from rustic to luxe, promises lasting popularity.

Keep watching our blog for tile trends as we roll them out in anticipation of Coverings 2025! In the meantime, our handpicked design gallery and Pinterest board are ripe for daydreaming your next tile project.

Where to Buy Tile

Your next steps are simple:

Use the search tool at the Ceramic Tile Distributors Association (CTDA) to find a ceramic tile showroom in your area for a more individual, one-on-one shopping, design and education experience, or visit a home improvement or flooring retailer.

Find a Ceramic Tile Showroom Near You

For specific products and installation-related materials, you can consult the product locator of the Tile Council of North America (TCNA).

Download our Tile Buying Guide below to share with your contractor or designer or bring with you to the showroom. Having these tips handy will make it that much easier to shop for your tile.