Style: Character Apartment Kitchen
Project Scope: Custom designed kitchen for an historic inner city apartment in Wellington, infused with personality and a nod to the heritage of the building and surrounds.
Year: 2021
Location: Te Aro, Wellington
Built in the early 1900s, this warehouse turned apartment building has undergone significant earthquake strengthening, offering a total blank canvas & exciting opportunity to create a truly bespoke kitchen for this deserving inner city pad.
We embraced the industrial loft style of the building with it’s exposed brick walls and heavy structural steel cross-beams to inspire this kitchen re-design.
The layout of key appliances was re-worked, and the kitchen opened up to create a unified entertainer’s space in the heart of this studio apartment.
We selected dark stained oak cabinetry with highly functional ceramic bench tops for a sleek, yet extremely practical application.
Black, powder-coated steel handles and shelving detail link through to the apartment’s structural elements, finished off with lighting to highlight the beauty of the inherent materials in our palette.
Photography: Anna Briggs
We are Kurio; the Wellington based Interior Design Studio of industry-qualified co-owners, Katie Peck And Nikki Burnet. We specialise in both residential and commercial interior projects, with a portfolio of work from across New Zealand.
Guided by the individuality of each client; we create interiors that are a joy to live in. Our design style is considered and curated, based on quality and timelessness, and finished with a twist of the unexpected.
From large-scale renovation and turn-key interior projects through to decorative styling, we will expertly reflect your personal taste, and piece by piece curate an interior that is a representation of your personality, your lifestyle, and one you truly feel connected to.
With nearly 30 years of combined design experience from across New Zealand, Australia, UK and Europe, we have established our personal ethos and foundations in design.
Our years working in world-leading design studios, putting our touch on luxury residential homes, developments and hotels, has given us sound skills and knowledge, ready to continue creating homes of quality and integrity for our NZ clients.
Our name Kurio, is a play on the words curio (a rare, unusual, or intriguing object) and curated (discovering, collecting, organising beautiful things) with the K as our signature unexpected twist. Kurio is a reflection of our design ethos; Spaces designed to Live Distinctively.
As interior designers we understand that a well-executed, intentional design has a huge influence in creating a haven; a place of happiness, comfort and connection.
Our aim is to craft thoughtful and beautiful interior spaces that are a manifestation of our client’s personality, lifestyle and practical needs. We want to provide you with the most professional service and the benefits of our collective creativity and design knowledge, to create something beautifully unique, together.