Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 31 No 8 New Zealand | Page 86

Top priority For this new house, the design of the kitchen came first, and everything else followed search | save | share at trendsideas.com The best-laid plans – the owners of this new house originally commissioned a brand new kitchen for their former home. But that project never eventuated as the house was destroyed by the Christchurch earthquakes. However, the kitchen design brief remained and architect Chris Wilson of Wilson & Hill Architects says it provided the starting point for a new house. “This kitchen is similar to our original design. It is literally the heart of the home – we wrapped the house around it.”