Celebrating Excellence in Design NKBA's annual Excellence in Design Awards recognise the best of New Zealand kitchen and bathroom design. Check out the winners, runners-up and highly commended projects in the 2025 TIDA New Zealand Kitchens awards. Kitchens by architects and designers, plus imported kitchen designs showing the latest design trends and styles.
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Auckland kitchen designer's spectacular 1870s cottage renovation VIDEO CREDIT: The Post Auckland designer Celia Visser continues to rack up major awards, this week winning the award for the New Zealand Designer Kitchen of the Year in the 2025 Trends International Design Awards (TIDA). This Candice Stanley-designed kitchen for a new house in Gleniti, Timaru, won two awards at the 2025 NZ National Kitchen and Bathroom Association's design awards. The 2025 Design Awards will be announced and presented at our Kitchen Studio Gala Awards Dinner during the Kitchen Studio Annual Conference in Wellington on Thursday 8th May.
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