Your Bowen kitchen,
packed flat or built.
A kitchen is not a product you pick off a shelf and hope fits. Send us what the room actually measures and we will draw Bowen a kitchen to those numbers, then price it with nothing hidden in it.
The short answer
We design and cut every kitchen in Rockhampton, Queensland, and freight it to Bowen north along the Bruce Highway — flat packed, or delivered assembled with the doors already hung and adjusted. We do not install in Bowen; your own builder or installer fits it from our drawings. Send the room dimensions and the quote comes back both ways, fixed and itemised, with freight to your postcode on its own line.
What should a Bowen kitchen be built to survive?
A house within reach of sea air is a harder brief than it looks: the finish has to survive the light and the hardware has to survive the salt. We answer the second with Blum on every hinge and runner, and the first with a finish you choose off real samples. Dry tropics rather than wet: hot, salty air near the coast and hard water inland, both of which show up on hardware long before they show up on doors.
What does delivery to Bowen involve?
Your kitchen is cut in Rockhampton and freighted north along the Bruce Highway. Flat cartons are labelled to a numbered drawing, one per cabinet where possible, with doors and fronts wrapped separately and the Blum hardware bagged against the cabinet it belongs to. Assembled orders arrive as finished boxes, doors hung and adjusted, which takes more truck space and shows as a higher freight line. Both are on the same quote so the choice is a number rather than a guess.
Who fits it in Bowen?
Your builder, carpenter or kitchen installer, plus a licensed plumber and a licensed electrician for their parts. Ask each for a licence number and check it yourself — in Queensland that is QBCC. Every order ships with dimensioned service drawings showing each waste, water point and outlet, so the trades rough in to the plan rather than to a guess. Our install guide sets out the three trades and the fixed order they work in.
Can I order the kitchen in stages?
Not every Bowen job needs the whole kitchen at once. Builders regularly take the base run first and the overheads and pantry later, and renovators sometimes take the kitchen now and the laundry in six months. The drawing stays on file, so a later order matches the first exactly - same board, same colour batch where we can, same hardware. Say so on the quote request and it is priced in stages.
How do I plan around the plumbing I already have?
Keeping the sink and the waste where they are is the single cheapest decision available in a kitchen renovation, and moving them is the one most likely to find a problem inside a wall. If the layout works with the existing points, keep them. If it does not, get the plumber to look before the drawing is approved rather than after the cabinets land in Bowen.
Is it worth ordering spare parts with the kitchen?
A spare hinge or two and a length of matching edging, yes, and they cost very little alongside the kitchen. Years later a door that takes a knock is a five minute fix if the part is in a drawer and a much longer one if it has to be matched to a finish that may have moved on. Ask for it to be added as a line on the quote rather than assuming it is included.
Where else do you ship in North Queensland?
We ship to Ayr, Ingham, Charters Towers, Home Hill, Magnetic Island, Collinsville, Hughenden, Julia Creek and the rest of the region on the same route. The North Queensland page covers the region, and Queensland covers the state.
- Drawn to your measurements, not catalogue widths
- 18mm moisture-resistant board, laser-bonded edging
- Soft-close hinges and full-extension runners
- Pre-drilled and labelled per cabinet
- Service drawings for your plumber and electrician
- Fixed itemised quote, freight its own line
- Installation not offered in Bowen
Kitchenettes for a granny flat, studio or short-stay unit start at $4,500 — see flat pack kitchenettes.
Building a second dwelling? Granny flat rules in Queensland.
The specification
Built for this
climate, not a catalogue.
Humidity is the design constraint here, not heat. Through the wet season a standard-core carcass takes on moisture at the cut edges and swells, and once a panel has swollen the door never sits square again. Everything we ship is 18mm moisture-resistant board with laser-bonded edging — no glue line for water to track along.
The same three questions decide any kitchen anywhere: board thickness and moisture rating, edging method, hardware brand. Ours are 18mm moisture-resistant, laser-bonded and Blum, and they are printed on every quote. How to judge a flat pack.
- 18mm moisture-resistant board
- Laser-bonded edging, no glue line
- Soft-close hinges and full-extension runners
- Cut to your drawing, not catalogue widths
- Pre-drilled and labelled per cabinet
- Fixed itemised quote, freight its own line
What goes inside it
Anyone can sell you boxes.
This is the part that takes knowing.
Carcasses and doors decide how long it lasts. The fittings decide whether you like using it — and most suppliers charge for them at the end. These are included in your Bowen kitchen, not quoted as extras once the number is agreed. That is the difference, and it is the one most suppliers will not match.
Magic corner pull-out
The blind corner stops being the cupboard you empty twice a year. The front tray swings out and the back tray follows it.
See how it works →
Plate and pot racks
Pegs and rails inside a deep drawer so plates stand up and pots stop stacking into each other.
See how it works →
Pull-down wall basket
The top shelf of an overhead, brought down to where you can reach it. The shelf you stopped using becomes storage again.
See how it works →There are seven in all — see the full range.
No showroom. No account.
A person draws it.
Send the wall lengths, the ceiling height and a photo of each corner. A designer draws your kitchen to the room and sends the drawing back with a fixed, itemised quote — flat packed and delivered assembled, freight to your postcode on each.
- Nothing to pay to see the drawing or the quote
- Changes redrawn until the plan is right
- Cut only after you sign the drawing off
- Freight quoted as its own line, never folded in
Or call (07) 4863 5788 — you get the person who designs it.
Frequently asked
Bowen — questions
If your question is not here, call the studio. We would rather talk it through than have you guess.
Ask us directly →Do you deliver flat pack kitchens to Bowen?
Yes. Bowen is served north along the Bruce Highway, and freight is quoted to your postcode as its own line on the quote rather than folded into the cabinetry price.
Do you install kitchens in Bowen?
No. Our own installation team works Central Queensland only. In Bowen your builder, carpenter or kitchen installer fits it, working from the dimensioned service drawings that ship with every order. Our install guide covers the three trades and the order they work in.
Should I order flat pack or assembled to Bowen?
Both are quoted on the same drawing. Flat cartons ship for less and get through tight doorways; assembled arrives with carcasses built and doors adjusted so your installer is fitting rather than building. Over this distance most North Queensland orders go flat.
Who can do the plumbing and electrical in Bowen?
A licensed plumber and a licensed electrician, and you should check both licences yourself before they start. In Queensland, QBCC is the register to check against.
What board and hardware do you use?
18mm moisture-resistant board, laser-bonded edging and soft-close hinges and full-extension runners on every cabinet, in every state, with the hardware brand named on your quote. The specification is printed on your quote so you can hold it against anything else you are offered.
Is there a deposit to get a Bowen quote?
No. The drawing and the itemised quote cost nothing and carry no obligation. Payment terms for the order itself are stated on that quote.
Can I add pull-downs and organisers to a Bowen kitchen?
Yes, and they are quoted per item rather than bundled into a package you did not ask for. Pull-down wall baskets, magic corners, tall larder pull-outs and drawer organisers can all go into a Bowen order. If you order delivered assembled they are fitted before it ships; flat packed, they arrive with the cabinet they belong to.
Delivered assembled
The assembly is done
before it arrives.
Carcasses built square on a bench, Blum hardware fitted, doors hung and adjusted to even gaps. On site you are fixing finished cabinets to a wall, not building them on the floor. Your builder or installer levels it, fixes it and fits the benchtop, working from our drawings. Prefer to build it yourself? The same kitchen ships flat pack.
Stone on a compact run
Samples brought to you
Island with seating overhang
Bowen, QLD
Send us the dimensions.
We will send back a number.
A fixed, itemised quote for your Bowen kitchen, flat packed and delivered assembled, with freight to your postcode on each. Nothing to pay to see it.