The iconic 1950s
Kiwi Bach Kitchen
NKBA Award Winner
THE ICONIC 1950’s Kiwi BACH Kitchen
Winner, Bay Of Plenty Regional Award - NKBA
Designer
Mark Bruce
Certified Kitchen Designer
NKBA / CDSNZ / Tutor
This kitchen tells the story of the past, present and future of an iconic Kiwi Bach. A small kitchen space, mainly used in the Summer months to service a large outdoor dining and BBQ area the kitchen needed to provide adequate cooking facilities for non-BBQ meals.
Floor to ceiling windows were replaced with a large sliding door to gain direct access to the outdoor dining and he moved the north facing window to the right to create the wall area for the new design. Mark had previously designed 1950’s furniture for the bach with shark fin edged tops in Oak, this provided the starting point for the design. He wanted the north wall cabinets to look like a piece of furniture so used acrylic with shark fin edges to frame oak faces and this stood on 300mm turned oak legs. The tall units integrated into new nib walls and bulkhead. The use of shadow board as the faces for the fridge and pantry sold the iconic Kiwi bach theme. The racked cupboard has reeded glass and also boasts the must have chrome pipe through rounded shelving. The colour palette is bright, earthy and contemporary supporting the overall design and giving a polish to this laid back kitchen.
“At the end of the world, the mid-century look sits comfortably alongside our casual beach lifestyle, many of our best loved baches never actually left the mid-century look behind. As evidenced in so many of New Zealand’s iconic baches.”
“We can feel Mark’s love affair with this era as he effortlessly captures the charm from these times in this well executed design.”
