2026/Reflections

NKBA Awards 2026Entry 267

Reflections

Sticks + Stones Design·Westmere Auckland·Kitchen

Katie Scott

Designed by

Katie Scott

Sticks + Stones Design

Reflections — kitchen by Sticks + Stones Design (NKBA Excellence in Design 2026)

OFFICIAL RESULT

Auckland Kitchen Design Recognition

Reflections begins with a couple ready to reclaim their kitchen after their children had left home.

Project gallery

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01 / 13Photography by John Williams. Specified: Blum, Fisher & Paykel, Hafele, Hettich, Plumbline, Bosch, Hideaway Bins, Laminex.

Project story

Reflections begins with a couple ready to reclaim their kitchen after their children had left home. They wanted a room that felt modern, softly masculine and more attuned to entertaining, but the existing kitchen was dark, constrained and set against the wrong view.

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The design turned the room toward better light and a more generous outlook, removing the low south-facing window that had held the kitchen back. What followed is a kitchen about transformation rather than replacement: clearer in plan, richer in atmosphere and much more connected to the life around it.

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Project record

Entry number
Entry 267
Project
Reflections
Entered by
Sticks + Stones Design
Designer
Katie Scott
Location
Westmere Auckland
Programme
2026 NKBA Excellence in Design
Room type
Kitchen
Category entered
Kitchen
Photography
John Williams

Official result

Official NKBA 2026 result.

Credits
Blum, Fisher & Paykel, Hafele, Hettich, Plumbline, Bosch, Hideaway Bins, Laminex