There is no place on earth like Sydney’s Northern Beaches. More than a desirable place to live – it offers a complete lifestyle and easy access to nature. So when it comes to your kitchen, what are the key features most Northern Beaches homeowners want?
We asked Helle Olsen, one of the owners of Collaroy Kitchen Centre. Here are her 6 kitchen design tips.
Tip 1: Create a seamless transition between indoors and outdoors
The Northern Beaches lifestyle demands a seamless transition between garden, pool, outdoor entertaining area and kitchen. In fact some clients opt for a large island bench for indoor dining and place their dining table in their outdoor entertaining space.
Tip 2: Make everything easy to access
Easy access is a key element in Northern Beaches kitchen design. Whether it’s handy access to a dedicated drinks fridge and the barbeque tools or the ability for guests to help themselves to glasses, drinks and snacks.
Tip 3: Add a touch of nature with timber
With an abundance of bushland as well as beach, a classic Northern Beaches kitchen always incorporates natural elements such as timber or rattan. They are simple to include by using raw-edge or finished timber shelves, feature cabinets in timber, cane or timber stools for your island or rattan pendant lighting. Don’t forget to add interesting, nature-inspired accessories as well as pot plants or timber clad faux beams to your ceiling.
Tips 4: Introduce Hamptons elegance to your home
For an elegant, beach-themed kitchen, you can’t go past the Hamptons coastal style. This includes traditional joinery styles such as shaker cabinet doors and drawers or bevelled-edge cabinetry profiles. Hamptons style kitchens also have statement rangehoods in timber, white or a metallic finish.
Tip 5: Beach meets country for a casual kitchen aesthetic
Some homes are better suited to kitchens with a more casual, country aesthetic. If you prefer this style of kitchen, include an island bench and/or pantry that look like stand-alone pieces of furniture. If you use a custom kitchen company like Collaroy Kitchen Centre, you can ask us to design a reproduction vintage cabinet to fit your exact specifications. This will give you the style you want with the functional benefits you need.
If you would like to achieve a harmonious look throughout your home, ask us to design and make matching cabinetry for other areas of your home, like your family or dining room.
Tip 6: Outdoor kitchens for popular entertainers
While our customers have a variety of kitchen needs and wants, many love to entertain. That’s why an outdoor kitchen that looks like an extension of your indoor kitchen is highly prized on the Northern Beaches. It really is the best way to embrace a seamless transition between indoors and out. As licenced builders, Collaroy Kitchen Centre can create an amazing kitchen that allows you to entertain with style throughout every season of the year.
Make a statement about your style
A lot is said about kitchens being the heart of every home. But it’s so much more – especially on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Here, your kitchen reflects your lifestyle and the reasons you love living in this area.
At Collaroy Kitchen Centre, you work directly with our experienced kitchen designers who talk to you about what you need and how you want to live. Then we design and custom-build a kitchen that makes a statement about your style.
Discover what makes our kitchens different or visit our showroom at Shop 7-8, 1000 Pittwater Road, Collaroy.
