Case Studies

When renovating a kitchen in a 100-year-old villa, most believe it is important to retain the original charm and character. John and Jacqui Mangham wanted to do just that, while also creating a modern kitchen design with more usable storage that would suit the style of their early 1900s villa. They also wanted to fit…

From old fashioned and small to a classy, monochrome kitchen design which offers light, versatility and plenty of hidden space! Amy Johnston grew up with her mother’s love of cooking and enjoying food. She says she loved the idea of an open communal kitchen where she describes the hub of the kitchen being the cook…

Stepping into Cecilia’s renovated kitchen is like stepping into a French Country kitchen in a vintage cottage setting. The new kitchen boasts warm neutral tones and subdued shades of blue resembling the muted hue of a provincial French landscape. Cream profiled cabinets adorned with soft gold hardware and paired with a pastel blue splash back,…

Kay Pe and Helen Tsui, the new owners of a home in Mount Wellington, spend a lot of time in the kitchen and wanted it to be the feature of their new home. While it was a well kept, original 1970s kitchen, it was still quite dark and small with an archway that boxed it…

There are three things that Becky Rutherford knew she didn’t want in her new timeless, classic kitchen.   “I had a kitchen space I didn’t like. It was a 90’s kitchen in beige and way too dark,” she says. “I knew I wanted a particular wall to come down, a better layout and to get…

The Cutfield family started with a blank canvas when designing their minimalist kitchen in their newly built Maraetai home.   All they knew was that they wanted their kitchen to be the heart of the home. The ultra-modern minimalist kitchen sits in the centre of the home, flowing effortlessly into the living area to create…

Lyn Wong’s kitchen is the heart of her home. It’s where she spends hours cooking and where she entertains family and friends. But it was missing three key things; space, storage and practicality. “In its day the kitchen we had would have been amazing and really eye catching but there were a lot of things in…

Yukie Guo believes the kitchen is the heart of the house. With that in mind, she began renovations on her 1970s Pakuranga Heights home with a new Jag Kitchens design and is delighted with the resulting style and flexibility the space gives. “It’s made a huge change. The previous kitchen was really tiny with hardly…

She was looking for a change after 19 years. Diana Cernohorsky felt that her home at Huntington Place needed a bit of a spruce up. She thought of changing the carpets, but her niece suggested that maybe a new kitchen would make a huge difference. And she was right. “When you live in a house…

Cathie Barker’s 90’s style kitchen has been given a new lease on life. The once outdated blue kitchen with timber accents is now a sleek, modern design with a crisp white stone benchtop and exudes functionality and comfort. “There are now things in my kitchen I didn’t even know I needed, and now I couldn’t dream of having…

A large titanium gold honed granite bench is the ‘piece de resistance’ in a very dramatic kitchen designed by Jag Kitchens for Gaye and Nigel Powell of Mission Bay.  The beautiful eye-catching bench at the heart of this contemporary kitchen has spectacular veining and a large waterfall end. The new kitchen includes cabinetry in Arctic…

Emily Zhang’s kitchen exudes sophistication and class. The eye-catching kitchen with clean lines is the focal point of the home on Lancing Road in Sandringham.  The simple and classic style flows seamlessly throughout the house, from the moment one steps through the door. The kitchen is contemporary and combines high functionality with sleek surfaces for…