19/06/2026
A good kitchen has to pull off two things at once. It needs to look the part, and it needs to actually work while you're cooking, and the lighting is where those two ambitions meet.
In this Collaroy kitchen, the woven rattan pendants over the stone island bring the warmth and the character, the bit your eye lands on first. Quietly doing the hard yakka underneath is a run of LED strip tucked beneath the overhead cabinets, throwing clean light onto the bench top so nobody's chopping in their own shadow. Add the downlights and the Velux skylights overhead and the room feels bright and open right through the day, then softens into something more relaxed of an evening.
There's a fair bit going on behind the scenes as well, with the induction cooktop and double ovens each needing their own dedicated circuit to run safely. The knack is planning all of it together so the layers complement each other rather than competing.