Dated Home Renovation

Our client had just bought an older house in Half Moon Bay and wanted it finished before she moved in. She had a fixed budget, no previous renovation experience and very little spare time, so she was after one company to handle design, trades and scheduling. She compared six quotes and chose us after meeting project manager Jimmy Zhou. Work started in early August 2020, just ahead of Auckland's second lockdown. The crew kept going under Level 3 rules and held the programme, which the owner could check for herself from her place across the road. The biggest change was the kitchen. We took out the wall between kitchen and dining, then designed new cabinetry around the arched doors and windows found throughout the house. A flat handleless kitchen would have looked wrong against those curves, so the shaker-style Melteca doors have a vintage-pattern Dezignatek Thermoform wrap and are finished with dull black handles. A 30mm marble-look engineered stone bench and a Blanco Silgranit sink sit on top. When the carpet came up, the lounge floor turned out to be off level. We showed her the problem, re-levelled it and adjusted the quote for that work only. Scope Wall removed between kitchen and dining; custom kitchen with Blum and DTC soft-close hardware and an induction cooktop Walk-in wardrobe opening into a master ensuite with a custom double vanity and frameless tiled shower Guest bathroom with a single vanity and a bath Wet areas membrane-sealed before tiling Laundry nook built into the garage, with plumbing and electrical redone Wallpaper stripped from the high ceilings and walls using internal scaffolding, then a full repaint Carpet replaced with oak-look tile through the living areas and bedrooms; stairs re-carpeted Lounge floor re-levelled Jimmy Zhou ran the project with our design team, and the house was handed over in October 2020. Full case study: Full Home Renovation in Half Moon Bay, Auckland