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Davinia Sutton

Design excellence

Christchurch kitchen designer Davinia Sutton made history at the recent National Kitchen and Bathroom Association (NKBA) Excellence in Design Awards, with her business taking home a record-breaking 13 awards.

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Her awards, for seven unique kitchen and bathroom designs, included the prestigious Supreme Kitchen Design Award, the Supreme Bathroom Design Award and the Designer of the Year Award.

NKBA President, Nick Thompson says Davinia’s dominance at the awards was unprecedented.

“Never before have we had one designer win the three biggest awards of the

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night. This display of talent and power demonstrates that Davinia really is at the top of her game. Congratulations to Davinia and her team at Detail by Davinia Sutton.”

Her supreme award-winning kitchen gave the judges “butterfl ies” with its bold design and modern wow factor created using Patagonia granite enhanced with back lighting detail, and an Artisan Stone benchtop. Also invoved in the project was Hoogervorst Builders.

“It has astounding beauty and detailing that grabs you and holds you close,” the judges said.

“The stunning slab selection is backlit which adds to the drama and understated glamour.

“The mixing of timbers is a great success, and the detailing and materiality is a showstopper.”

“The designer has incorporated a slight Japanese infl uence that creates luxury and evokes deep emotion.

“Masculine materials have been used, but carefully layered, to create an elegant and sleek design. This kitchen has wow factor and is of international quality,” said the judges.

The kitchen also won the 2021 NKBA Lighting Design Award and the 2021 NKBA Canterbury Chapter Recognition Kitchen Award.

The 2021 SUPREME Bathroom Design Award went to Davinia Sutton for a ‘dark and moody master ensuite’ featuring a dual entry, dual vanities and dual WCs with a large double shower zone at the heart of the room. The 2021 NKBA judges described the ensuite as amazing, clever and di erent.

The bathroom also won the CDS Bathroom Design Award and the 2021 Canterbury Chapter Recognition Bathroom Award.

She won 2021 NKBA Designer of the Year for her work on the two projects achieving the highest combined score by the judges. The judges said she knows how to evoke emotions through unwavering attention to detail and an understanding of how to achieve understated luxury.

“The designer selects beautiful choices of fi nishes and integrates a sense of opulence into their work. A masterclass in balance and material choices,” they said.

Sutton also won the Supreme Bathroom Runner Up for a modern Hampton’s style bathroom, the Supreme Kitchen Design Highly Commended and the Manufacturing Craftmanship Award for a large open kitchen infl uenced by the style of architect Sir Miles Warren.

Her company won another two NKBA Excellence in Design Awards for two other spaces.

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More NKBA winners Canterbury designer Angelique Armstrong of Armstrong Interiors won two NKBA 2021 awards.

The fi rst was the Spatial Innovation Design – Commercial award for an inspiring showroom with a di erence, the ‘Ne Market Kitchen’. Judges noted the space had a wonderful rustic vibe while also balancing a warm and inviting refi nement. “The incredible corner details on the island are clever and interesting. Simple fi nishes and a really good use of materials make this a perfect kitchen for a commercial home. Texture enhances this welcoming space with its fl avour of provincial France,” Armstrong Interiors was given a brief to keep within the Ne brand look and feel, but to enhance this style even further. Angelique sourced 150-year-old reclaimed French oak beams and used them as posts at each corner of the island, cutting into the Neolith Angelique Armstrong top, exposing the core of the timber on the top.

Proud manufacturers of the NKBA Outstanding Renovation Kitchen Runner-Up in conjunction with Armstrong Interiors.

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They were also used to frame the back wall of units, to look as if they are supporting the brick wall. Boras Tapeter original brick wallpaper was used to complete the market feel.

Angelique says both wins were a lovely surprise, especially since there were 80 entries in the kitchen categories. “We only entered kitchens this year, whereas last year we focused on our bathrooms.”

A current trend, she says, is to renovate kitchens as homeowners decide to stay put rather than sell in a high housing market.

“People want to get it right to stay in their existing homes; to make their kitchens and bathrooms beautiful to look at, functional and comfortable,” she adds.

Her second accolade came as runner-up in the 2021 Outstanding Kitchen Renovation category for the ‘Clarkville Kitchen’.

Described as a modern functional kitchen, that is elegant yet has a homestead, country feel with a slight French infl uence. The project was part of a full house renovation in North Canterbury.

Advanced Joinery Ltd and Shane Boyd Granite worked with her on the project.

The judges said the renovation was a beautiful transformation with gorgeous fi nishes. “This kitchen is completely sympathetic of the architecture of the home and is so well considered.

“The design of the kitchen brings the outside in, which is always well received.

“The renovation includes the addition of a large workhorse scullery that uplifts and improves the lifestyle of the homeowners. A generous and warm space,” they added.

Other Canterbury designers to win were:

Nicky Claridge of NC Design, 2021 Kitchen Distinction Award, $40,000 to $60,000.

Kitini Outdoor Kitchens, Spatial Innovation Design - Residential Runner-Up.

Michelle Lamb of Lume Design, The Canterbury Chapter Recognition Kitchen Award.

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Benchtop supplier of NKBA winner Armstrong Interiors Runner-Up of Outstanding Kitchen Renovation