Sean Monk Design

Sean have designed our kitchen in our renovated house and done a great job. We are in love with the kitchen! So are all our guests!Me & my husband met Sean & he has been amazing from day 1. Sean not just designed a kitchen for us but he also communicates well to understand our lifestyles & needs to give us what we both want. (Me & my husband has very different style) Sean can provide you the whole picture but also considerations for details to build your dream kitchen.However, we had a difficult project as the house was leaky & lots repairing needs to be done before the kitchen can continue, but Sean has been so patience with us & provide all the help we needed. He also did a great job organising all the workmanships & contractors with timelines for things to be completed for us. He looked after us that made the whole journey less stressful than it already is.Sean also has good sense of wide range of different styles & an eye for beautiful things, which I like as some designers can show too much of their signature ideas/styles but Sean was great to listen to our wants but still give professional suggestions & work together to create the space that we all love. He is brave & open to use new ideas/elements in his design which I am very pleased.The outcome is just perfection! Every other contractors that came into our house notice how beautiful our kitchen is and all got some good inspirations for their next kitchen. The quality is really good and you can see that great consideration has been put into every detail.Our kitchen is now the spotlight of our house & we highly recommend Sean if you want a wowing kitchen in your house too. You will be surprised.

Sean would be our go to for any renovations around kitchens. We highly recommend.On Design - Sean visited our previous home and got a good understanding on our actual kitchen usage as well as what we wanted going forward in the new place we were moving to. We had limited space but also needed our essentials in order; tighter spaces have their disadvantages, and effectively we think the design we got made very good use of space whilst giving the kitchen plenty of room to move around. The design also had some novel ideas I haven’t seen around in NZ commonly and they worked well for us.On quality of the final product - most of our friends who have done renovations before, as well as the builders we worked with specifically called out the quality of the workmanship as well the design. One of our friends pointed out how identical the 3D CAD drawing ended up being to the final product.Execution - renovations tend to always have hidden complexities, and I’m very grateful we went with a proper kitchen designer. This is because there were times we had to change our mind to make things ultimately work better for us. It would be fair to say that Sean and his team bent over backwards to make things work, and there were no hidden costs or expenses from Sean. Also he helped us when we needed advice/ideas even for areas outside of the kitchen.8 months on from completion - There were a few items that we weren’t on full agreement during design and execution stage, but we trusted the professional opinion, and I’m glad we did as those ideas did end up being better overall per his recommendation. Also now that I’m paying a bit more attention to how other kitchens are put together, it’s very clear to me that we got a very very good outcome.

Sean created a brand new kitchen for me in the Heritage building as seen on Grand Designs. As it is a big space he managed to get the measurements to work with the access constraints.He also did the four walk in wardrobes and the laundry space.