Cherrybrook · Hornsby Shire
Kitchen renovations in Cherrybrook.
Households here average 3.1 people, the largest in the district, and 61% are couples with children. A Cherrybrook kitchen has to survive four people using it at once, which is a different design problem to a beautiful one.
NSW contractor licence 397801C · Hornsby Shire Council area · About 15 minutes from our Hornsby showroom
Houses — 81.5% of Cherrybrook
Designing for four people, not for a photograph.
71.8% of Cherrybrook dwellings have four or more bedrooms and 60.7% of families are couples with children — both the highest shares in the district. That combination should drive the layout more than any trend does.
Two people at the sink
A double bowl or a second prep sink in the island. In a household of four the bottleneck is always the sink.
Keep traffic out of the triangle
The fridge should be reachable without walking through the cooking zone. Otherwise everyone collides at dinner time.
A bench that takes homework
An island with seating on the non-working side, with power. It is where the household actually spends the evening.
Surfaces that forgive
Matt finishes and mid-tone colours hide the fingerprints that a gloss white kitchen shows within a week.
Cherrybrook by the numbers
3.1
people per household — the largest in the district
71.8%
of homes have four or more bedrooms
60.7%
of families are couples with children
1.2%
flats or apartments — just 74 dwellings
Butler's pantry
Where the school-morning chaos goes.
Cherrybrook housing is mostly 1980s onward on regular blocks, which usually means an oversized laundry adjoining the kitchen. That room is where nearly every pantry here comes from.
The mess goes behind a door
Toaster, kettle, microwave and the school lunch production line. That is what a pantry is genuinely for.
Borrow from the laundry
On a Cherrybrook floor plan the laundry usually backs onto the kitchen and is bigger than it needs to be.
A second fridge fits here
With four people and bulk shopping, the overflow fridge or freezer belongs in the pantry, not the garage.
Slab means plan it early
Adding a sink in the pantry needs drainage. On ground slab that decision has to be made before demolition.
Strata — 17.2% of Cherrybrook
In Cherrybrook, strata means townhouses.
This is the fact that catches people out. Only 74 dwellings in the entire suburb are flats, but 1,023 are semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses and villas — most of them strata-titled.
1,023 townhouses and villas
Against just 74 apartments. In Cherrybrook, strata means a townhouse with its own driveway — and it still needs consent.
Slab on ground, fixed waste
The sink stays close to where it is. The gain comes from joinery and the layout above the floor, not below it.
Small scheme, quick decision
A ten-lot complex usually approves a clear written scope without needing a special general meeting.
Credentials
Licensed for whole-house work.
NSW contractor licence
397801C
Renova Holdings Pty Ltd
Director and builder
99764S
Alireza Kamalzadeh
HBCF eligibility
To 15 Oct 2028
Approved to $750,000 per dwelling
Multi-room jobs
Priced together
Kitchen, pantry and laundry as one scope
Household, family and dwelling figures from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for Cherrybrook (SAL10897). Cherrybrook sits mainly within Hornsby Shire Council — we confirm the council for your address. Verify licences on the NSW Government public register.
Cherrybrook questions
Kitchens for busy houses.
What matters most in a family kitchen?
Circulation, and a second water point. With 3.1 people per household on average here, the failure mode is not storage — it is four people trying to use one sink and one walkway at six in the evening. A prep sink in the island and a fridge reachable from outside the cooking zone fix most of it.
Is a butler's pantry worth it here?
On a Cherrybrook floor plan, usually yes, because the space is generally already there in an oversized laundry backing onto the kitchen. What makes it worthwhile is not the extra storage but getting the small appliances and the school-lunch mess behind a door.
Can we put a sink in the pantry?
Yes, but decide early. Most Cherrybrook homes are slab-on-ground, so a new waste means cutting concrete — entirely doable, but it has to be planned before demolition rather than added once cabinetry is drawn. Retrofitting it later is disproportionately expensive.
We are in a townhouse. Do strata rules apply?
If it is strata-titled, yes — your own driveway and front door make no difference. Around 1,023 Cherrybrook dwellings are townhouses or villas and most sit under an owners corporation, so written approval is normally needed before work starts.
Should we do the kitchen and laundry together?
If the pantry is coming out of the laundry, you effectively have to. Beyond that, the trades are already on site, the benchtop can come from the same slab, and you live through the disruption once. Doing them a year apart costs more and takes the same rooms out of service twice.
How many people use it at once?
That number should shape the layout more than the finishes schedule does. Tell us and we'll design to it.
