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Design Suite Kitchen Design Kitchens designed with purpose. A boutique, mobile kitchen design studio, Bay of Plenty & Waikato. Led by Kate Blakeborough, CKDNZ. We travel to you. Design.

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DS · 04, a classic coastal kitchen in Papamoa.A blue-grey chevron leading the room, warm white cabinetry, Statuario-styl...
19/10/2026

DS · 04, a classic coastal kitchen in Papamoa.

A blue-grey chevron leading the room, warm white cabinetry, Statuario-style stone, and a plan built for a busy family and the way they gather, inside and out. Designed from the home first, then the kitchen.

Held by a single hand from first conversation to final detail.

Coastal kitchen design in Papamoa and the wider Bay of Plenty, by Design Suite Kitchen Design.

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This kitchen looks simple. That was the hard part.A calm kitchen is the hardest kind to design, because every decision h...
15/10/2026

This kitchen looks simple. That was the hard part.

A calm kitchen is the hardest kind to design, because every decision has to disappear. Here the plan is a galley with an island, so the working run stays tight and nothing crosses it. Prep, cooktop and sink sit within a step. The island holds the room together and keeps whoever is cooking in the conversation. You do not notice any of it, which is the point.

Simple to live in takes the most work to get right. Functional kitchen design in Papamoa and the wider Bay of Plenty, by Design Suite.

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Every colour in this kitchen comes from one place.It is Papamoa Beach on a summer’s day, pulled into a room. Warm white ...
12/10/2026

Every colour in this kitchen comes from one place.

It is Papamoa Beach on a summer’s day, pulled into a room. Warm white and Tusk are the sand and the light. The blue-grey chevron and the grey veining in the stone are where the sky meets the sea. The timber underfoot is the driftwood. Nothing in here is literal, no blue cabinetry, no props, just a feeling turned into materials.

That is how a coastal kitchen reads calm, not themed. Coastal kitchen design in Papamoa and the wider Bay of Plenty, by Design Suite.

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06/10/2026

Two cool notes in a warm room, and the whole kitchen reads coastal.

Almost everything here is warm. Warm white, Tusk, timber light through the windows. The coastal feeling comes from just two cool tones, placed on purpose. The blue-grey chevron behind the bench, and the cool grey veining running through the stone. They sit across the room from each other and answer back, so you feel the sea before you ever see it.

That is coastal without the clichés. No blue cabinetry, nothing literal, just two considered notes doing the work.

A Papamoa kitchen, designed from the home first.

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A kitchen for a busy family has to work hardest when the house is full.So this one is designed around the way people gat...
01/10/2026

A kitchen for a busy family has to work hardest when the house is full.

So this one is designed around the way people gather, inside and out. The galley keeps the working run tight, and the island gives everyone somewhere to land, close enough to talk to the cook without crossing the work zone. In summer the flow carries straight through to outdoors, so a meal can move from bench to table to the deck without the cook missing a moment of it.

Entertaining is not a separate mode here. Inside or out, it is the kitchen doing what it was designed to do.

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29/09/2026

We designed a whole kitchen around a robot vacuum. On purpose.

A dock built into the cabinetry, worked in around the plumbing, sized and wired in from the start, so the floor cleans itself and nothing sits parked in a corner. No gap breaking the run, no appliance on show. You would never spot it unless you knew where to look.

That is the kind of decision that only matters every single day. Good design is often the part you stop having to think about.

A kitchen near Papamoa Beach, considered down to the details you never see.

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Shaker is everywhere because it works, which is exactly why it is so often done without thought. The profile depth, the ...
24/09/2026

Shaker is everywhere because it works, which is exactly why it is so often done without thought. The profile depth, the proportion of the frame, the way it holds up to daily life, these are the decisions that separate a classic kitchen from a dated one.

Here we did the opposite. Flat warm white fronts, lifted by an extrusion profile, so the look stays modern and calm. Restraint, held on purpose.

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Cool grey ran the market for a decade, and a lot of those kitchens already look of their time. The direction now is warm...
22/09/2026

Cool grey ran the market for a decade, and a lot of those kitchens already look of their time. The direction now is warmer: warm white, Tusk, timber with some honey in it. It is not a trend so much as a correction, a return to neutrals that feel like a home rather than a showroom.

In this Papamoa kitchen the warm palette does the steady work and the blue-grey chevron is the single note of colour. Together it reads as Papamoa Beach on a summer's day. We are calling it our Warm White and Tusk scheme.

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A classic coastal home in Papamoa, a short walk from the beach, designed to be lived in for a long time. Warm white and ...
17/09/2026

A classic coastal home in Papamoa, a short walk from the beach, designed to be lived in for a long time. Warm white and Tusk to hold it, summer oak underfoot, and a blue-grey chevron for the one note of colour. Together the palette reads as Papamoa Beach on a summer's day, all of it brought into one room.

We began with the home, the light and the way the family moves through it, then let the kitchen follow. Over the coming posts we will take you through the thinking and the detail, from the layout to the finishes to the parts you never see.

Kitchens designed with purpose. Lived beautifully.

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14/09/2026

You can spend well on a kitchen and still spend it in the wrong place.

A kitchen is one of the largest investments in a home, and the real skill is deciding where the money earns its place and where it does not. This one was built to a plan, not spread evenly across everything.

The back run is builders-range engineered stone, chosen on purpose to hold the budget. That saving is what pays for the island, a quartzite benchtop left to be the one thing your eye goes to first. The cut came off the surface finish, never the working parts. Blum Merivobox drawers throughout, and solid brass tapware and handleware, because the pieces your hand meets every day are the last place to save. The appliances already in the home were designed around, not replaced.

The result is a modern farmhouse kitchen that looks nothing like its budget. Not because more was spent, but because every dollar was placed where it changes how the kitchen looks and how it lives.

That decision is the one thing a showroom range cannot make for you. It is the difference between a kitchen you invested in and money you cannot get back.

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