The Kitchen Specialists Association

Our kitchen of the month is by Bay Kitchens in Plettenberg Bay who joined the KSA in February 2024 With over 25 Years of kitchen and cabinetry experience their team of highly skilled and professional kitchen designers, manufacturers and installers are dedicated to delivering sensational cabinetry to evoke a sense of comfort and belonging for all their customers. Address: Unit 2, Airport Business Park, Airport Rd, Plettenberg Bay Tel: 064 542 6533 Email: justin@baykitchens.co.za Website: https://baykitchens.co.za/ #ksamember #kitchenofthemonth #stunningkitchens #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociation

Finding the right kitchen company to do your kitchen renovation is challenging. How do you know they are reputable; how do you know the quality of work they deliver; how do you know you can trust them in your home and how do you know they will give you honest, quality work for your price bracket? Over the next few weeks we will be looking at some helpful guidelines that may help you in finding your ideal kitchen company partner. Part 1 - Be realistic when chatting to kitchen companies. There is no point spending hours talking to a company if their primary market is for kitchens way above your price bracket. If a company tells you they don’t work in your budget parameters they are not being rude or arrogant – they are being honest. Every kitchen company works in a particular market, working predominantly with certain materials and suppliers. This may mean that what they offer is not suited to you and your budget. It is vital that you get this right. If you opt for price reasons, to appoint a kitchen company that predominantly works on entry-level kitchens, and you are wanting a mid-range kitchen you might be disappointed at the final finish, attention to detail and the quality of materials used. Conversely if you ask a high-end kitchen company to quote you when you only have a mid-range budget you will walk away saying they overcharge, which is not the case - they are charging appropriately for their target market. Never just talk to one company – this is not to say that you should string along multiple companies, but you should get more than one quote – we suggest three. Allow each company to measure up and consult independently and allow each to give you their own design concept. Don’t take a design from one company to another and ask them just to quote. Firstly, this is abuse of intellectual property, secondly you are not giving the company an opportunity to give you their unique insights. You will find that one of the three companies get your design style, needs and family functioning better than the others. #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #choosingyourkitchencompany #buyingakitchen #kitchencompany #newkitchen 

As our industry starts getting back to work we would like to welcome you back to the office. The KSA offices are open – we are back on skeleton staff this week with the full team being back next week. We want to wish you and your businesses all the best for 2025. #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton

Davidsons Boards in Durban recently updated their showroom space. Tracy Hicks popped down to take a look and was surprised by the beautiful big KSA member logo proudly displayed at their entrance. Let’s see what else they did in the renovation …  #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #showroomtour #membervisit #showroom #boardmerchant #proudlyksa Davidson's Discount Boards Michael Wyndham

A big welcome to 2025. We hope you all have had a wonderful start to 2025 seeing in the New Year. We wish you the very best for this year and hope it will be prosperous, joyful and safe for you all.  #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #newyear2025

To all those celebrating Christmas we want to wish you a joyous day and a very happy Christmas.  #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton

We paid a visit to Clippa Systems – join us in the visit… #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #quartsurfacing #showroomvisit #kitchenshowroom

The KSA offices close for the holidays at 12.0pm today. We want to wish everyone a restful and safe holiday period and thank all our members for their ongoing support and their hard work. We look forward to seeing you all when our offices reopen on 6 January. #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #offcieclosure

Tracy Hicks, our KZN regional representative, recently paid a visit to Unipanel / KZN Board’s revamped showrooms in Durban. Let’s go take a look with her. #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #showroomvisit #shouroomtour #showroom #boards Unipanel SA KZN Boards Zunaid Khan

The last of our top five students in the KSA’s 2024 Student Kitchen Design Project is Cindy McKenzie from Vega in Pretoria. This is the second time Cindy has entered the project and she has come top five both times – an amazing achievement. As a passionate and dedicated interior designer, Cindy brings a unique blend of creativity and strategic thinking to every project. Committed to creating captivating spaces, she prioritise both visual impact and practical usability. She recognises the importance of designing accessible, user-friendly spaces and ensure my designs are tailored specific solutions that resonate with the clients’ visions and requirements. Her attention to detail and textural layering ensures each project is distinctive and authentic. She enjoys kitchen design because it blends functionality with aesthetics to enhance clients' daily lives. She finds kitchen designing an incredibly rewarding and a gratifying process that turns an essential space into a functioning, accessible, appealing design that integrates the client’s style and preferences to make each kitchen unique. Cindy opted for brief one focusing on the retired couple moving to their last home, downscaling in the process. Cindy’s design facilitated the downscaling without compromising the sense of space and maintained the high-end elegance and sophistication the client wanted. Cindy will be moving to Cape Town to do her postgraduate studies in design at UCT and will be doing an internship with one of our KSA members in Cape Town while she studies.  #KSA #kitchenspecialistsassociaiton #studentkitchendesign #kitchendesign #studentkitchenproject