Trends New Zealand Volume 33 No 6 | Page 34

Le charme With a skilled design professional involved, a new kitchen can transform your interior – as with this French-look design by award-winning Kira Gray search | save | share at Having the right kitchen designer on board can mean your new kitchen will have better connections to other areas of your home – even unlocking areas not fully utilised. When respected designer Kira Gray came to this project, the existing small, dark kitchen was disconnected from an under-used family room. β€œIt lacked storage and was essentially too small for this masonry home,” she says. In its place, the owners requested a large, traditional, French-inspired design with modern accents. They also wanted it to be a social hub, integrating with the family room and rear yard.