Urban Townhouse Reno

The owner had a good address near Parnell Village and a unit that didn't match it. Downstairs, the living area was cramped and the kitchen had almost no bench space. Upstairs, two bedrooms and two bathrooms had dated badly. Our design team started with where things sat. The kitchen was on the left of the ground floor, with a toilet and the dining area on the right. We removed that toilet, took down the wall between lounge and dining, and built a larger kitchen into the reclaimed space. Where the old kitchen stood, there's now a closet laundry and a pantry. Moving the plumbing and waste cost more than reusing the old positions, but it gave the unit proper bench space, a bar and a dining area that fits. The kitchen has handleless custom cabinets on moisture-resistant board, a 30mm marble-look engineered stone bench and an instant hot-water tap. Its feature is a 3D splashback in BIS374 White Frozen Crystal tiles, lit by remote-controlled, dimmable LED strips that also run under the cabinet doors. Polished concrete now runs unbroken through kitchen, dining and living. The original wall couldn't take the electric fireplace, so a new false wall went up in front of it, finished with a mantle in the same stone as the kitchen bench. Scope Kitchen relocated, downstairs toilet removed and lounge-dining wall taken out Closet laundry, plus a pantry fitted with pull-out drawers and bins Custom bar with LED lighting and a wine fridge False wall, electric fireplace and engineered stone mantle Diamond-polished concrete floor with epoxy tie coat and stain guard Both bedrooms reworked, with new floors upstairs Two upstairs bathrooms renovated, with waterproofed showers on linear drains Designed by our in-house team and project managed by Jin Park, completed in February 2020. Full case study: Full Home Renovation in Parnell, Auckland