The Corner House Wins award at Gold Coast Master Builder’s awards night

Sanctuary 28’s Don Cotterill has been recognised for building excellence at the annual Master Builders Awards for over 18 consecutive years. Now, Sanctuary 28 are popping the Champagne for yet another major industry gong, celebrating their latest architecturally designed display home, The Corner House.

The Corner House has just been awarded as the winner in the category of Display Home valued at over $551,000 in the Master Builders Gold Coast Housing Awards. Judged on its livability and design, innovation, workmanship and degree of construction difficultly, The Corner House more than ticked all of the boxes!

The unique residential development located on the busy intersection at 70 TE Peters Drive exemplifies Sanctuary 28’s ingenuity and craftsmanship - setting a remarkable new benchmark for the future of residential housing across the South-east Queensland and beyond.

Designed in consultation with Architect Paul Uhlmann, The Corner House sits on a 638 square meter corner block and features two floors of sun-drenched living space with four bespoke bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, expansive kitchen and entertaining areas, resort-style swimming pool, as well as an adjoining fully-contained living or work space – all under the one roof!

An impressive two-storey, landscaped courtyard/atrium lies at the centre of the 412 square metre home. This dreamy light-filled space creates a pristine vista enjoyed from all areas of the house whilst maximising family privacy. Following the regional Master Builders award win, The Corner House will now compete for the coveted State title to be announced in October 2020.

Luke Hines Kitchen wins award

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KBDI Small Kitchen 2017

KBDI 2017 Winner

Designer of the year - Katia Slogrove

Huge shout out to our cabinetmaker Germancraft Cabinets and their talented designer Katia Slogrove.  Katia picked up an award at the Kitchen and Bathroom Designers Institute annual awards gala for her design work on Luke Hine's kitchen at our daybreak blvd project.   The judges were impressed with the ultra-functional, uber-cool design that packed a great deal of punch in the allotted space.  They admired the creative planning that skilfully met the client's brief, and loved the exquisite combination of finishes.

The night was made for Katia, when she also took out the prestigious title of "KBDI Australia Kitchen Designer of the Year 2017'.

For most people, the kitchen is the heart of a home.  Sanctuary 28's clients are in good hands when working with Katia to master this space.     

Celebrity Chef Luke Hines gets a new kitchen

Well it has been an exciting day onsite at Luke Hine's residence in Casuarina. Today his new kitchen got installed.  Not only was it a big and exciting day for us but also for our cabinetmaker.  We catch up with Luke's very talented kitchen designer Katia Slogrove from Germancraft Cabinets.

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When building with Sanctuary 28, you get to work with award winning team members like Katia Slogrove of Germancraft Cabinets

Katia, you must be super pumped that your kitchen design for Luke Hines is coming to fruition.  Is this the first celebrity client that you have worked for?

Yes I can’t believe it’s finally happening. I have been crossing off days on my calendar for this day! To see your design come to fruition is my favorite part of my job. This is not my first celebrity client I have done joinery and kitchens for Olympic swimmers, athletes and tv celebrities. Don’t want to name drop but they were all really nice clients and I don’t treat them any different to our everyday clients we get.

Tell us about the kitchen design, what was your brief, what was important to Luke? 

I was lucky enough because believe it or not Luke has given me quite a lot of freedom in the design which I didn’t expect  from a professional Chef. When I was designing this kitchen I was pretending that I was a chef in my mind. I started thinking how I would use this space and where would my items and food be stored. The functionality of this kitchen was the most important thing and that was part of Luke’s brief. But one thing he did mention to me is that he has a lot of spices!

What are the materials/products to be used in this kitchen?

I have used Black and Ash white colour 2pak both in matt finish for my doors. However when you open your drawers or doors this is where it gets interesting because we have used Laminex Impressions “Sublime Teak to all carcass! After all it is Scandinavian concept and we thoughts it was a perfect area to introduce a bit of timber in to the scheme. I have also used mirror laminate to all his kick boards as I knew that he was going to have an amazing concrete flooring and by placing a mirror laminate on the kicks the floor will simply continue on and the kitchen will look like its floating!

What is your favorite element?

My favorite part is probably all the Blum hardware I have put in.  We have 34 Legrabox Pure drawers! They are completely brand new to the market and are considered to be Best drawer systems in the whole world! Of course I have picked the Terra black matt and glass profile to tie it all in into the Scandinavian look. But they are not just normal drawers they are all on servo drive which means you touch them slightly and they open automatically! We have entire black wall where his VZUG appliances are all on touch servo drive system with automatic lights too! When he will open his pantries or spice pantries the light comes on automatically like a magic trick. The last and the most impressive Is the Servo drive Flex mechanism we have put on his Fully integrated fridge and freezer doors. Again completely automatic he touches the door panel and the fridge doors open and they also automatically shut by themselves if Luke will ever forget to shut his fridge!

What’s your advice for someone looking to design a kitchen? 

Design your kitchen layout early. Go and see a professional  to help you design your dream kitchen and then give your plans to the architect so he can integrate that kitchen design and layout into the floor plans.