Auckland · Onehunga
Rua Design + Build
Trading as Rua Design Build Ltd
Mid-tier specialist — does refreshes and full renos with the same attention. Excellent for first-time renovators.
Years trading
8
Accreditation
Master Builders · Trade Certified
Region
Auckland
About Rua Design + Build
Rua is a tight 4-person studio that takes on roughly 18 kitchens a year. Their sweet spot is the $35–80k mid-tier reno where the layout is staying broadly the same but everything else is changing. Strong on cabinet-only refreshes for landlords, and surprisingly competitive on engineered stone.
Known for
"Walking nervous first-time renovators through what 'builder's discretion' actually means in their fixed-price contract."
Scopes they handle
Of the three NZ kitchen renovation scopes, Rua Design + Build regularly takes on:
Layouts they've delivered
Rua Design + Build regularly designs and builds the following kitchen layouts.
Galley
Two parallel runs of bench with a working corridor between.
L-shaped
Two adjacent runs of bench meeting at a corner.
Other specialities
- Small-space specialist
In the Auckland market
Biggest market, deepest bench of LBP-registered builders and BCITO-trained joiners — but also the most-stretched. Lead times for full kitchens sit at 8–14 weeks for design and consent, plus the actual build. Stone bench fabricators in particular are booked 6–8 weeks ahead through most of the year.