The design of a kitchen can make or break a house, especially when it’s at the centre of the home....
As the square footage of the spaces we live in reduces, the homes and the items within them have had to evolve to suit this new way of living. We spoke to Fisher & Paykel’s chief designer, Simone Stephens, who has worked alongside leading architects across the globe, to understand how New Zealanders have responded to compact living and how this has translated into kitchen and appliance design.
This kitchen blends modern sophisticated features – Corian basins and worktops, telescopic roller drawers – clad in thinly sliced railway sleepers, combining a recycled local historical material, but modernised and made sophisticated and elegant rather than rustic. The butcher’s block is made from a leadwood tree trunk.
We chat to Nick Simeonides, a sales associate at Kouzina Appliances about all things kitchens. Is there a kitchen...
