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Category: Study Room

  • Custom Teaching Unit & Joinery in a Busy Māngere School

    Custom Teaching Unit & Joinery in a Busy Māngere School

    BoxMakers played a pivotal role in the transformation of the classrooms and toilets in Southern Cross Campus’s B Block. With a wealth of experience delivering quality joinery for schools, our expertise was indispensable to the welfare and usability of the new rooms.

    For one of the newly reworked science rooms, BoxMakers installed a robust and versatile custom teaching unit, with materials carefully suited for long-lasting durability. It was a large cabinet with an integrated sliding whiteboard, featuring a wealth of concealable storage space. The whiteboard itself is a premium porcelain enamel piece by Polyvision, surrounded with Silver Pearl aluminium edges. Beneath the board surface, an accessory ledge is thoughtfully implemented to accommodate a range of teaching supplies, such as markers, erasers, and cloths. This slim cut benchtop uses Laminex’s Formica range, a high-pressure laminate that offers superior durability and performance.

    Below the ledge is a wide array of cabinets, complete with locks to ensure secure storage. The cabinet carcass is made of 16mm MDF, while its aesthetics are supplemented with Classic Oak Naturale melamine from Laminex. This provides an organic appearance without the heft or maintenance of natural wood. The handles are Sylvan’s Norton series, in black. Their square bar profile is minimalist and to the point.

    Our team also installed the hot water cylinder cupboard, which featured an MDF core with a white finish. We delivered this with Häfele hinges and built-in locks to ensure both security and ease of operation. A similar outfit was also performed for the data cabinet.

    Our BoxMakers team was also crucial to the bathroom work, installing the toilet partitions. The cubicle walls were installed with Laminex’s Compact series, featuring calming wood patterns. Above, the headrail was an anodised silver aluminium. We also installed the locks, hinges, stoppers, and more. Stemming from our work, the bathrooms now feature durable, modern, and easy to use stalls.

    This shows BoxMakers’ exceptional ability to install specification-adherent materials for specialised, high-use environments. It also demonstrates our versatility as not just kitchen professionals, but skilled installers of niche systems schoolwide and beyond.

  • A Multi-Room Renovation in Westmere

    A Multi-Room Renovation in Westmere

    Last year, one of our most diverse projects was a double room renovation in Westmere. This was a highly involved project that showcased our cabinetmaking expertise in tailoring to numerous use cases. The family’s lifestyle was fast outgrowing their original rooms and required solutions that better suited their needs and activities.


    To start off, the owner required an unused bedroom to be converted into a study room. BoxMakers’ role included designing and incorporating a solution that allowed for dual desktop computer placement with specially installed cable grommets to minimise visual clutter. The client envisioned a clean, neat, and productive workspace that could be used for both study and work. As a whole, the study room included a large corner desk, complete with a full suite of cabinetry – including overhead shelves and cabinets, as well as drawers and corner shelving.


    Material-wise, Dezignatek’s White Thermofoam became the choice for the cabinet face panels, with their Oslo-style door profiles. Their centre indents create a subtle sense of texture and tactility without detracting from the clean look. The shelves were finished with a Timber Veneer in American White Oak while the desktop featured the same finish, and featured a mixed core Plywood constitution for lasting durability. Häfele’s soft-close series was used for both the hinges and drawer runners, hampering those jarring door sounds. iLLUMAX’s LED strips were applied underneath the open shelves to provide warm task lighting – perfect for reading and paperwork.


    Elsewhere, the children’s playroom was renovated to serve as a general living space, adapting to the family’s evolving needs. The room had also inherited some extra space thanks to a recent expansion. Taking full advantage of the renewed space, the owner called upon BoxMakers to design and build a set of cabinetry befitting of this new and improved room.


    The layout consisted of an arch arrangement of open shelves over a row of cabinets with a flat benchtop – perfect for showcasing pottery, books, and framed photos. The base benchtop features the same mixed-core plywood found in the study, keeping aesthetic consistency while providing an incredible amount of storage room. The TV-space is also immense, allowing room for large screens that could be watched from the other end of the room.


    This multi-faceted project showcases BoxMakers’ ability to create purpose-built, space-efficient rooms and effectively transform spaces to accommodate a broad range of lifestyles.