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Embracing Kiwi Elegance: New Zealand Kitchen Design Trends 🇳🇿🍽️

Embracing Kiwi Elegance: New Zealand Kitchen Design Trends 2026 🇳🇿🍽️   Are you envisioning a kitchen that combines functionality, aesthetic appeal, and the unique charm of New Zealand? Look no further! In this guide, we explore the latest New Zealand kitchen design trends of 2026, blending the country’s natural beauty with contemporary elegance. Whether you’re renovating, redecorating, or building a new home, these trends will inspire your dream kitchen.   1. Sustainable Simplicity: New Zealanders have a deep appreciation for nature. Embrace sustainable materials like reclaimed wood, bamboo, and stone in your kitchen design. Opt for energy-efficient appliances and incorporate

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New Zealand Kitchen Design CDC Blog Post

Embracing Kiwi Elegance: New Zealand Kitchen Design Trends 🇳🇿🍽️

Embracing Kiwi Elegance: New Zealand Kitchen Design Trends 2026 🇳🇿🍽️   Are you envisioning a kitchen that combines functionality, aesthetic appeal, and the unique charm of New Zealand? Look no further! In this guide, we explore the latest New Zealand kitchen design trends of 2026, blending the country’s natural beauty with contemporary elegance. Whether you’re renovating, redecorating, or building a new home, these trends will inspire your dream kitchen.   1. Sustainable Simplicity: New Zealanders have a deep appreciation for nature. Embrace sustainable materials like reclaimed wood, bamboo, and stone in your kitchen design. Opt for energy-efficient appliances and incorporate

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Colours effect your mood and well being

The Impact of Colour in Interior Design on Your Personality

The Impact of Colour on Interior Design   One of the essential roles of architecture and interior design is to provide an environment that sustains and nourishes your psychological well-being.   This role is made even more important because, in modern society, more than seventy per cent of your lifespan is spent inside your home. [1].   Interior design represents a considerably important factor that affects the users of the space (you and your significant other in your home), both in functional aesthetic and psychological terms.   Colours are an integral part of the world we live in and their

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Designing a Home That’s Both Functional and Beautiful for Your Busy Life

From crowded 6-8 children homes to nuclear 1-2 children families…   From a simpler work environment to a modern, hectic, and speedy work life…   From always being at the office 7 days per week to now spending 1-4 days per week working remotely… [1]   From dying in your early 70’s to now living independently at home into your late 80’s… [2]   This has resulted in YOU making changes in your preferences for your home environment.    You want and demand living spaces in your home that exactly match you, rather than a trend, a strong preference from

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Mental wellbeing is directly related to your home design personality

Mental Wellbeing and Living In A Home That Matches Your Design Personality

The places and spaces that we inhabit on a day-to-day basis elicit powerful emotional responses that influence our health and well-being.    The influence of your home’s physical environment on your perceptions, cognitive capabilities, emotions, and physiological outcomes (mental and physical) well-being) is profound.   There is a growing body of research from many different countries that confirms these statements.   In particular, this research paper ‘Interior Design From An Integrative Health Systems‘ argues the relationship between the occupants of the home and the choice of interior style, colours, layout, placement of furniture, lighting etc are intimately bound together.  

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What is your unique design personality?

What is a Homemaker’s Design Personality?

Every human has a unique design personality.   Your design personality is shaped and influenced during the first 20+ years of your life by your design DNA, personal style, taste, and lifestyle. Because these blended forces are complex,  a person’s design personality is 100% unique to each individual.      Regardless of whether you are currently renting your home, have a very limited income, or are mortgage-free – it is VERY IMPORTANT your home reflects your unique design personality to ensure you and your partner get maximum benefit from your home.    If you are about to start any form

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If you are going to spend ~70% of EVERY DAY INSIDE your HOME – you better LOVE how it looks and makes you FEEL!

When I first learnt the statistic that you and I spend ~70% of every day inside our home, I wondered if it was another urban legend. But it is not!    What makes it even more fascinating is that the percentage of time spent indoors in your home (across a wide number of countries) only varies slightly from 59.3% in Korea to 68.9% in New Zealand.   There are a number of different research papers on the subject: USA¹ in 2001, Canada in 2014, and New Zealand² in 2015. (Note these are pre-COVID – imagine what the stats would look

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Can homemaker and design professional reconcile?

Can This Interior Designer Fix Their Relationship With The Homemaker?

Interior Designer: Hi Mrs. Smith, I’m so glad you could meet with me today. I wanted to come by and see how you’re liking the new renovations.   Homemaker: I’m not really liking them, to be honest.   Interior Designer: Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. I thought we had a good understanding of your design personality and what you were looking for.   Homemaker: We did, but I think you misunderstood me. I wanted something more traditional and cosy, but this feels too modern and cold.   Interior Designer: I see. I’m sorry, I didn’t get it right.

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As a frustrated architect & interior designer, she knows you need to fully understand your design personality before starting any type of home building/renovation project. Take her Your Ultimate Design Brief course, and get back to doing what you do best – enjoying your home for decades to come!  Learn more

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