Located in the heart of the home, no two Dan Kitchens are the same.
We work with our clients every step of the way to craft luxury kitchen designs that are an expression of your lifestyle. As in all our projects, we are guided by our core values: uncompromising quality, a commitment to classic, timeless aesthetics, and Danish designs principles that seek to enhance the way we live.
From your first architecturally accurate plans and images, to consultations with our interior designer, the selection of colours, and inspections of stone and raw timber, Dan Kitchens will guide you every step of the way.
For projects where the kitchen needs to respond closely to the architecture, materials and wider interior, explore our kitchens for architect-designed homes.
With over 40 years of experience, and a skilled design team able to interpret even the most challenging and complex of briefs, Dan Kitchens knows how to create sophisticated architectural spaces that are exciting and supremely practical; aesthetically pleasing, yet designed to endure the passing of time.
The Dan Kitchens team are experts in kitchen design, cabinetmaking, fabrication, timber joining, painting, project management and installation. We believe this is the best way to deliver a luxury custom kitchen with luxury service. We’re widely known for renovating luxury kitchens in Sydney that suit a range of styles and homes.
Our installers are the true ambassadors of Dan Kitchens – building, problem solving, and applying the finishing touches to your dream kitchen.
Many of our team have been with us for over 20 years, and they are experts in their field. They will be present throughout the installation, ensuring everything goes smoothly and according to your design.
Dan Kitchens was founded in Sydney by Danish cabinet maker Vagn Madsen in 1984. Still director to this day, Madsen, with the help of the rest of the Dan Kitchens team, has crafted Danish-inspired interiors for over 40 years. Danish design is all about simplicity, minimalism, clean lines, and uncompromising functionality. Each space we craft is a balance of beauty and utility, where every detail is intentional, and materials are selected to complement both the design and the lifestyle it serves.
To this day the Dan Kitchens logo proudly flies the Danish flag in acknowledgement of our roots, and of the ethos at the heart of our designs.
Led by our designers, prospective clients benefit from a team of experts collaborating on your project from the get-go. Product designers, interior designers, cabinet makers and 3D artists make up this design team. We approach your project thoroughly and holistically, and when the design team is finished, you can be assured the proposed design not only looks beautiful but is well thought through.
Once the team has finished working on your custom joinery design, your Dan Kitchens designer will organise a presentation with you at our showroom. Together with old school hand-drawn plans and elevations, your designer will also present you with material and hardware samples, as well as detailed, transparent costings and options down to the component level. For larger, custom joinery designs, photo realistic renderings may also be provided.
Once you’re happy with the proposed design and costings, we’ll go over the paperwork thoroughly, and you sign a contract for Dan Kitchens to manufacture and install your custom joinery. We also go over any insurances required as part of the Home Building Compensation Fund and the schedule of payments.
All joinery is manufactured in our own Sydney facility, giving us full control over quality, timing, and execution. Nothing is outsourced. This allows us to maintain consistent standards, respond quickly if adjustments are required, and ensure every component is made exactly as specified before it ever reaches site.
Our production manager arranges to go to your home and measure the project space. They also take photographs and make detailed notes of anything else that may be required to ensure a smooth installation process.
For most homeowners, this is the stage where you see the most activity. Led by our inhouse installation team, your existing joinery is removed (if required), the space is prepared, and the installers begin building your custom joinery from the ground up. Various specialised tradespeople will come and go (electricians, plumbers, stone masons, etc) but you can be assured that the installation team will be overseeing all work carried out. Once complete, the installation team will run you through the various aspects of your custom joinery, as well as care and maintenance.
Our service doesn’t end when we’ve completed your joinery project. We follow up to see how you are going with your new joinery/cabinetry, and if there is anything amiss, we find a solution. If a part fails, even years down the line, we will do our utmost to help. Our many happy clients will attest to this.
Led by our designers, prospective clients benefit from a team of experts collaborating on your project from the get-go. Product designers, interior designers, cabinet makers and 3D artists make up this design team. We approach your project thoroughly and holistically, and when the design team is finished, you can be assured the proposed design not only looks beautiful but is well thought through.
Once the team has finished working on your custom joinery design, your Dan Kitchens designer will organise a presentation with you at our showroom. Together with old school hand-drawn plans and elevations, your designer will also present you with material and hardware samples, as well as detailed, transparent costings and options down to the component level. For larger, custom joinery designs, photo realistic renderings may also be provided.
Once you’re happy with the proposed design and costings, we’ll go over the paperwork thoroughly, and you sign a contract for Dan Kitchens to manufacture and install your custom joinery. We also go over any insurances required as part of the Home Building Compensation Fund and the schedule of payments.
All joinery is manufactured in our own Sydney facility, giving us full control over quality, timing, and execution. Nothing is outsourced. This allows us to maintain consistent standards, respond quickly if adjustments are required, and ensure every component is made exactly as specified before it ever reaches site.
Our production manager arranges to go to your home and measure the project space. They also take photographs and make detailed notes of anything else that may be required to ensure a smooth installation process.
For most homeowners, this is the stage where you see the most activity. Led by our inhouse installation team, your existing joinery is removed (if required), the space is prepared, and the installers begin building your custom joinery from the ground up. Various specialised tradespeople will come and go (electricians, plumbers, stone masons, etc) but you can be assured that the installation team will be overseeing all work carried out. Once complete, the installation team will run you through the various aspects of your custom joinery, as well as care and maintenance.
Our service doesn’t end when we’ve completed your joinery project. We follow up to see how you are going with your new joinery/cabinetry, and if there is anything amiss, we find a solution. If a part fails, even years down the line, we will do our utmost to help. Our many happy clients will attest to this.
We would highly recommend Dan Kitchens. We found Vagn and the team to be very professional, they were meticulous in attention to detail from measure to final install.
They were very organised and kept to the schedule, any issue that arose throughout the process was dealt with immediately and with excellent communication.
Vagn and his team made the whole process smooth from beginning to end with a great result.
It’s a joy to spend time in the kitchen that Dan Kitchens designed for us.
Everything is just so incredibly well thought through. The attention to detail is phenomenal – and we noticed this from our first meeting with Dan Kitchens. The soft glide of the drawers, the logic of what is located where, how all our spices fitted perfectly in the custom spice racks. I find myself wiping everything down all the time because I want to keep it as pristine as possible!
If you want a true craftsmen and master of their trade, you need look no further than Dan Kitchens. We couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
A custom kitchen is designed around the individual home rather than assembled from a predetermined range of cabinet sizes and configurations. The layout, proportions, cabinetry, storage, materials and detailing can all be developed specifically for the space and the people who will use it.
At Dan Kitchens, every kitchen is individually designed and made to measure in Sydney, allowing us to resolve details that would otherwise be constrained by a modular, fixed-size kitchen system.
No. Our in-house design team can develop the kitchen directly with the homeowner, from the initial layout and design direction through to detailed cabinetry, materials, appliances and documentation.
We also work on kitchens for architect-designed homes, including renovations where the original architect is no longer involved. In these projects, our designers consider the architecture, proportions and material language of the existing home so the new kitchen feels appropriate to its setting rather than separate from it.
Where an architect or interior designer is actively involved, we can also work collaboratively with them, developing the kitchen within the wider architectural or interior concept.
Yes. This is one of the principal advantages of a fully custom kitchen. Older Sydney homes, apartments, terraces and architect-designed houses can have unusual room proportions, structural constraints or existing architectural elements that don't suit standard cabinetry.
Custom design allows the kitchen to respond to those conditions rather than forcing the room to accommodate a standard kitchen system.
Yes. Kitchen projects can extend into sculleries, butler's pantries, laundries, dining cabinetry and other adjoining joinery. In larger projects, Dan Kitchens can also design and manufacture custom joinery throughout the home.
Developing these areas together can create greater consistency in materials, proportions and detailing while allowing the spaces to function as part of the same overall design.
Materials should be selected as part of the overall kitchen design rather than as isolated finishes. Appearance is important, but durability, maintenance, proportion, adjoining materials and how surfaces will age should also influence the decision.
As part of our kitchen design service, our designers work with clients to develop combinations of cabinetry finishes, timber, stone and porcelain, hardware, colours and other materials that are appropriate to the kitchen and the wider home.
At Dan Kitchens Australia, when you contact us to discuss your project, you’ll receive professional advice directly from our design team. We take the time to listen to you, and offer information on moving forward.
Our goal is to provide clear, expert guidance, helping you make informed decisions about your kitchen or joinery project.
26 Prime Drive, SEVEN HILLS NSW 2147
02 9624 2344
For over 40 years, the Dan Kitchens luxury kitchen showroom has brought Scandinavia’s best designs to life. Sydney’s most refined custom kitchens and sophisticated joinery are custom made in the adjoining production complex.
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