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KBQ brings together the strongest kitchen design from around New Zealand, including award-winning projects and the designers behind them. We look beyond the hero image to the planning that makes a room useful: the circulation, cabinetry, storage, surfaces, lighting and appliances, alongside the proven products that earn their place through daily use.

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Kitchens·Natalie Du Bois·13 Sep 2026

Room for the whole family

A kitchen designed for retirement, with nothing that says retired about it: No Stone Unturned is generous, highly resolved and built around family, landscape and serious daily function.

Kitchens·Adam Spitz·13 Sep 2026

Designed for a full house

Built for a holiday home that may host more than 20 guests at a time, Dune Lodge balances architectural restraint, serious entertaining and the quiet muscle of a very hard-working kitchen.

In the spotlight

Tea House - Apartment Kitchen by Du Bois Design

Kitchens·Natalie Du Bois·13 Sep 2026

A richer kind of apartment kitchen

In an apartment kitchen, every choice has to earn its place. Tea House does that with a kind of edited richness: layered, tactile, and quietly exacting, without ever feeling overstuffed.

Rural Sanctuary by Designmarked Kitchens

Kitchens·Jenny Holmes·13 Sep 2026

A generous welcome in Tamahere

Rural Sanctuary brings a soft sense of grandeur to a Waikato home, balancing classic proportion with contemporary ease.

Kitchens·Katie Scott·13 Sep 2026

A little darkness goes a long way

There is a moment in every good renovation when the house seems to exhale. The wrongness of the old plan falls away and, suddenly, the rooms know who they are again. Ebony & Ivory has that feeling. In this Mount Eden villa, Katie Scott has replaced an early-2000s kitchen with something darker, warmer and much more at home in its surroundings.

Bold Gatherings by Kitchen Studio Christchurch North

Kitchens·Justine Keyworth·13 Sep 2026

The kitchen where everyone ends up

Some kitchens are designed to be admired from the doorway. This one is designed for someone to arrive with a bottle in hand, leave a coat on a chair and stay longer than planned. Bold Gatherings, by Justine Keyworth of Kitchen Studio Christchurch North, has the ease of a room that expects company — and knows exactly how to look after it.

From the 2025 Awards

Classic Pizzazz — kitchen by Colleen Holder Design, Auckland

Kitchens·Colleen Holder·23 Aug 2026