KITCHEN VISION, TAKAPUNA
Making Kitchen Renovations Fun! Contemplating a new kitchen is usually likely to evoke feelings of fear rather than fun. Enter, Kitchen Vision. Serious about kitchens, yet as playful as they are professional, the team at this Barrys Point Road business put on quite a show in their showroom. Newly refreshed, light and bright, this kitchen showroom situated Debbie Morris, Krys Keogh, opposite Kathmandu is Nigel Mansor. a welcoming place for all those considering a kitchen upgrade. Nigel Mansor bought the Takapuna business in early February and is injecting his business acumen, his larger than life personality, and passion for kitchen precision. “For quite a while, I’ve been managing high end full build developments and I would always want to do the design work for the kitchens myself. Kitchens have always been an interest. This opportunity came up and I thought, ‘hey, that’s a bit of me!’” Working with design consultant Krys Keogh is a dream for Nigel. “I really, really need to stress how amazing she is!” It’s clear Krys shares Nigel’s passion for the craft of creating top quality kitchens. She is animated in her explanation of some of the current trends. “There’s such a wide variety of options available now for customers wanting to create a new kitchen. Acrylic is one of the newest surfaces to be introduced for cabinetry. It’s glossy, hard-wearing and has a very smooth finish. In the past year a matt version has been released, it's really interesting; it has a velvet look to it, it’s beautiful! And you don’t see those fingerprints on it, that you do with the gloss.” Lapitec is another up-and-coming star of the kitchen surface scene. Krys explains: “This is a ceramic bench top, which is used instead of stone or composite and can handle very high temperatures, so it’s fantastic for people who are wanting to be able to take a heavy cast iron casserole dish out of the oven and put it straight onto the bench, for example, that’s no problem.” “There's such a variety of materials to choose from; there are some gorgeous granites coming out, from all over the world. And engineered stones are being engineered to look more natural, to create a marble look, but being more durable than marble itself.” Kitchen Vision is rightly proud of many things: it is looking to submit designs into this year’s National Kitchen and Bathroom Awards, in line with its shift into the mid to high end kitchen market. That all the kitchen cabinetry is produced locally, by local craftsmen in their Silverdale factory (the word modular is a swear word at Kitchen Vision). And that it has recently been recognised as an official Fisher & Paykel retailer, meaning some incredible appliance packages are on the cards for customers. If your kitchen dreams are giving you nightmares, go and see the Kitchen Vision team: Nigel, Krys, Gina, Rana, Ally and their delightful number-crunching guru Debbie and inject some fun into your new kitchen creation.
JONATHAN COLEMAN MP FOR NORTHCOTE
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Kitchen Vision, 55 Barrys Point Rd, Takapuna, Auckland 09 486 0811 www.kitchenvision.co.nz
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