# Spice & Second Kitchens — kitchen guides for Auckland

5 guides from the MTN Kitchens & Joinery workshop team on spice & second kitchens. 23+ years in trade · 2,000+ kitchens supplied & installed across Auckland · Laminex NZ fabricator.

- [Browns Bay & Mairangi Bay: Multigenerational Kitchen Design](/blog/browns-bay-mairangi-bay-multigenerational-kitchen) — Two generations, two cooks, one Bays house: why nightly wok cooking needs a ducted rangehood and a door, where the duct can actually run, and what the Code requires.

- [Adding a Kitchen When Converting a Garage in Auckland](/blog/garage-conversion-kitchen-consent-auckland) — Consent for turning an Auckland garage into a habitable room with a kitchen: the Building Code clauses that switch on, plumbing and ventilation triggers, and when a kitchen makes it a change of use.

- [What a Garage Spice Kitchen Costs in Auckland](/blog/garage-spice-kitchen-cost-auckland) — Where the money goes in an Auckland garage spice kitchen: a compact joinery run priced like any small kitchen, plus the plumbing, power, ducting and consent that swing with your site.

- [Garage Spice Kitchen Layouts That Actually Work in Auckland](/blog/garage-spice-kitchen-layout-guide) — Garage spice kitchen layout for Auckland: why the single-wall straight run wins, keeping the car in a 3m single garage, wok-landing-wash zones, extraction on the external wall.

- [What Goes in a Spice Kitchen? The NZ Spec Guide](/blog/what-goes-in-a-spice-kitchen-nz) — The item-by-item Auckland spice kitchen spec: gas wok burner vs induction, ducted extraction, benchtops that cope with turmeric, pot drawers, spice pull-outs and 20kg rice storage.

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